Playing God is entertaining. If it wasn’t, games such as The Sims and the iPhone’s Pocket God wouldn’t be nearly as popular as they are. So why shouldn’t gadgets offering a bird’s eye view of another person’s misfortune not be popular as well?
The Falling Books Bookend adds a dose of omnipresence into your study or library. Watch as a little unidentified man perpetually raises his arms in fear of the oncoming avalanche of knowledge.
I sure hope you’ve tried out that creature creator for the upcoming Spore, otherwise you’re going to be left in the dark. Having to settle for randomly generating creatures simply because you weren’t creative enough to come up with your own does not please Will Wright. After all, the full game is just around the corner. That’s right, Spore has gone gold, meaning the code has been completed and it’s ready for the slated September 7th release!
You can either pick up your Galactic Edition or just get the regular version like any other normal kid who cares not for precious art books and behind the scenes footage. Oh and Mac users (for once) get a Maxis game that’ll ship on the same day as the PC version. Spore is changing the world in more ways than one.
Will Wright is the famous creator of the best selling PC game ever: The Sims. As a result of countless addon expansion packs and pre-teen obsessions of controlling other people’s lives, the Sims is/was a phenomenon for PC gaming. Now, the Sims was meant to be run on your desktop because your laptop just didn’t have the guts to run the game well. The Sims Life Stories is about to change that. Not only are laptops much more powerful now in comparison to when the Sims was released, the Sims Life Stories is more of a narrative based game that is being made especially for laptops. This game will launch what EA is calling the Sims Stories line, basically it’s a line of Sims games that actually have a plot.
This laptop-friendly game is the first in The Sim Stories series and features an all-new directed Story mode that lets you take Riley or Vince through a unique story full of romance, conflict, and dramatic moments.
Exactly what laptop-friendly means is still to be determined, but it is probably safe to assume that it is something along the lines of reduced graphics demands. Because laptops can’t fit high end graphics cards in them (and they can’t cool them), graphics on laptops are limited. The Sims Life Stories addresses this problem, and it will probably sell millions more because of it. — Nik Gomez
Sims Life Stories to laptop-dance next month [Gamespot]
