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With Spore, Will Wright intends to make you an Intergalactic Galactic ruler who begins life as a bottom-feeding primordial soup dweller. When I first saw the game back in early 2006 I wondered, would Wright and his team over at Maxis be able to pull this off?

Many of the components of Will Wright's highly anticipated evolution game started out as small concept projects that are now available to the public. "The earliest prototypes were making strange topology creatures and seeing if we could teach the computer to make them move plausibly, and later, show emotion and behavior,"

EA Customer Support continually fails at providing proper service to a man who clearly knows more about his own issues than they do. Of course, they give him the typical run around, never solving his problem. Digg to gain attention and show that this cannot be tolerated.

It looks like Stardock's strategy of ignoring game pirates has paid off, as the publisher has announced that it has sold around 500,000 units of Sins of a Solar Empire. Broken down, this number includes 400,000 via retail, with the rest being sold through digital distribution.

The Good - Intuitive and comprehensive customization tools, Oozes charm at every turn Impressively broad scope, Great audio and art design. The Bad - Individual gameplay elements are extremely simple Early stages aren't very engaging.

Real life internal Civil Protection video leaked by the rebellion. The video the Overwatch does NOT want you to see.

A video that explains your options as an unskilled player.

While attendees at the Penny Arcade Expo didn't see much new from StarCraft 2, the demos given to the press and public sent a strong message: you will be getting more of what you love.

This week, Yahtzee hits the final frontier in search of a truly different MMO. Instead, he finds Eve.

A response to all those who say that World of Warcraft is a complete waste.

As everyone awaits more Diablo III goodness to be trickle down Blizzard's milky teat, there are more than a few games out there to provide us with our Diablo "fix", as I like to call it.

On Thursday, you would have seen Michael Phelps, still basking in the glow of his olympic triumphs, presented with a copy of Call of Duty: World At War. A game that's months from completion. Turns out Phelps didn't receive the game at all; what he got instead was a box of lies. An Activision PR rep has confirmed that Phelps was presented with an em

Electronic Arts immediately forwards all pre-orders to a secretive processing facility, so if you happy to change your address after ordering a game eight months in advance, well, tough.

Companion Cube Cake

The path to arriving at a final design for a character is sometimes a long and winding one. This was especially the case for the Demoman and we thought it would be interesting to step through that process and shed a little light on how we arrive at our final designs.

If the press is to be believed, we?re a dying breed, friends: the PC gamer is slowly slipping loose the surly bonds of expensive upgrades and Byzantine hardware requirements, and gently rising to grab onto the tray-and-play hem of console gaming. So here?s a handy cheat sheet for how you can ?save? PC gaming.

This 11-question quiz will test your knowledge of one of the most-widely played games in history.

Learn what it's like to be alone in Team Fortress 2.

People have gotten pretty creative with the Spore Creature Creator. Post pictures or videos of funny Spore creatures here, whether they be your own or random ones you've seen online.

The intro Cinematics to WotLK

On September 7, Electronic Arts will release its long-awaited and much-anticipated Spore. For many, this will be the biggest video game event of the year, and possibly even the last several years.

The Sandvich is the Heavy?s first unlockable. It tastes as good as it looks and heals 120 health. Like in real life, the decision to eat a Sandvich must not be taken lightly.

New details on Team Fortress 2's Arena mode have been unveiled, shedding light on the multiplayer shooter's newest gametype set to arrive with tomorrow's release of the Heavy class update.

Study looked at whether playing "World of Warcraft," the world's biggest multiplayer online game, can improve scientific thinking.

Introducing Companion Cube Soccer, the new custom game mode written by StrontiumDog.

A remake of the famous Dark Knight scene in TF2.

Efficiency

There?s a theory that well-made games are natural anti-piracy devices?that if a game is ?good enough,? people will buy it?or, in turn, if there?s suspicion it won?t be ?good enough,? then people will steal it. It seems to me that there?s an issue of responsibility on everyone?s part, and few parties want to step up and take theirs.

Jeff Simmermon, the Digital Communications Director for Time Warner Cable, has responded to the charges that TWC is responsible for the lags and disconnections plaguing East Coast World of Warcraft players. He took a look at the traceroutes posted on Blizzard's user forums and sent the response.

See the ZERG in action. Finally! Lots of new Protoss and Zerg footage from the internal beta. Can't wait for this game, especially after seeing how smart the AI is and all the detailed animations.

Not much has been revealed about ?Diablo III??s storyline, but lead designer Jay Wilson did tell me that the game will round out the story arc set up by the previous two games. And while ?Diablo III? ends the trilogy, fans needn?t worry ? it?s not the final curtain.

The update will include new maps, achievements, game modes, and weapons for the Heavy class.

A tech demo based on particle fluids for NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated PhysX technology.This video was recorded on a machine running an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 graphics card with Forceware 177.83 drivers and PhysX 08.08.01.

A classic TF2 video.

Leaked beta footage of EA's new horror/action game, Dead Space, taken during a recent playtest session.

The first footage of id software's upcoming Quake Live title from this past week's QuakeCon. This video is a duel match between two top Quake competitors, rapha and ZeRo4, in the $15,000 1v1 Quake Live tournament with expert commentary. Click the 'Watch in High Definition' link on the bottom right of the video for HD.

It?s been a while since we previewed what we thought would be the biggest games of 2008, so I thought it would be fun to take an updated look at the best the rest of the year has to offer. Things sure have changed! Obviously, games get delayed, but here are the ten biggest unreleased PC titles that we?re looking forward to here at VE.

By Ross Scott: Episode 4 of the comedy series "Civil Protection" based off the game Half-Life 2. In this episode, Dave goes on a short journey.

A little song about the turrets in Portal and their old lives.