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Design
I Don’t Want To Come In, I Just Want To Ring This Doorbell
3:20PM Matt Buchanan | *Ring* *Ring* *Ring* *Ring* “What?!” “Oh sorry, I can’t stop pushing your Spore doorbell.” *Ring* “I’m calling the cops.” *Ring* More »
Deals
11:00AM Nick Broughall | It’s simple mathematics people: A copy of PopSci costs $8.95 on the newstand. A 12 month subscription costs $84.95, which works out at a saving of $22.45 over a year. A copy of Spore will set you back about $90. Which means that if you subscribe to PopSci this month, you’ll end up getting $112.45 worth of free stuff for your 85 bucks.
Not only that, but you can enter the mag’s other competitions, which include the chance to win a $900 Blu-ray pack, a $900 Tamron lens and a $140 STM bag. That’s a lot of value for your purchase, right there.
The timeframe for the free Spore giveaway probably ends fairly soon, so you should get subscribing sooner rather than later…
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Dealzmodo: Get A Free Copy Of Spore When You Subscribe To Popular Science
11:00AM Nick Broughall | It’s simple mathematics people: A copy of PopSci costs $8.95 on the newstand. A 12 month subscription costs $84.95, which works out at a saving of $22.45 over a year. A copy of Spore will set you back about $90. Which means that if you subscribe to PopSci this month, you’ll end up getting $112.45 worth of free stuff for your 85 bucks.
Not only that, but you can enter the mag’s other competitions, which include the chance to win a $900 Blu-ray pack, a $900 Tamron lens and a $140 STM bag. That’s a lot of value for your purchase, right there.
The timeframe for the free Spore giveaway probably ends fairly soon, so you should get subscribing sooner rather than later…
[PopSci] More »
Software
I’m A PC, and Apparently I Need Lots of Antivirus Software
6:45AM Gizmodo US Edition | Our sister site Kotaku posted the NPD’s PC software sales charts for the month of September, and it’s pretty interesting to see how mega-games like Spore measure up to less-exciting products like Microsoft Office. Spore may have nabbed the top spot, but MS Office 2007 grabs two spots, and despite its early troubles, MobileMe sneaks onto the list at number 19. What’s most interesting is that antivirus and anti-spyware software take a whopping 9 out of the top 20 spaces. Looks like digital security is the hot buy of the season. [Kotaku] More »
Software
The Week in iPhone Apps: Games, File Sharing, and More Games
7:00AM John Mahoney | At the Let’s Rock event this week, Apple pushed the new iPod touch hard (and iPhone too, obviously) as a viable gaming platform. Steve even went so far as to call it the best portable gaming platform out there. Strong words for DS and PSP fans, but the crop of games popping up in the App Store continues to build steam. This week we’ll take a look at games both current and upcoming, as well as some other standout favourites as always. Shall we?
Games
Spore Origins For iPhone: Now Available
7:52AM John Mahoney | We showed you our hands-on of Spore Origins for iPhone last week, and despite some release-date wavering, it did in fact make it to the App Store today on schedule. It’s US$10. [App Store] More »
Games
EA Announces SimCity and the Sims 3 for the iPhone: Spore Coming on September 7th
8:16AM Sean Fallon | EA has announced that nine new titles are currently in development for the iPhone: Yahtzee Adventures, EA Mini Golf, Lemonade Tycoon, Mahjong, Monopoly: Here & Now The World Edition, SimCity, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09, Need for Speed Undercover, and The Sims 3. Many of these titles have been mentioned before, but I was pretty pumped to hear about SImCity and the Sims 3 being added to the list. EA has also revealed that they are shooting to release Spore Origins on September 7th—the same day it is released on the Mac and PC. Hit the jump for some new Spore screenshots and the official press release. More »
Games
11:42AM Nick Broughall | Kotaku AU had this nugget on Monday, but I was too busy playing with my iPhone to notice – If you happen to live on the east coast of Australia, you may want to pick up a copy of either The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun or The Courier Mail this Saturday – you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of a free copy of the full-version Spore Creature Creator.
Considering that EA chose not to allow Australians to buy the full version (unless they went to the New Zealand store), this is a pretty good deal.
Unless you live anywhere other than t he east coast, of course. If you’re out west – tough luck, I’m afraid.
[The Daily Telegraph, via Kotaku] More »
Dealzmodo: Spore Creature Creator Free With East Coast Saturday Papers
11:42AM Nick Broughall | Kotaku AU had this nugget on Monday, but I was too busy playing with my iPhone to notice – If you happen to live on the east coast of Australia, you may want to pick up a copy of either The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun or The Courier Mail this Saturday – you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of a free copy of the full-version Spore Creature Creator.
Considering that EA chose not to allow Australians to buy the full version (unless they went to the New Zealand store), this is a pretty good deal.
Unless you live anywhere other than t he east coast, of course. If you’re out west – tough luck, I’m afraid.
[The Daily Telegraph, via Kotaku] More »
Games
Jar Jar Gives You Another Reason for Spore, iPhone 2.0 Excitement
8:17PM Gizmodo US Edition | If getting Spore in the iPhone wasn’t enough reason to get excited about its potential as a gaming platform (despite the naysayers), someone has created a Spore version of Jar Jar Binks. You know, so you can download it and kill the bastard with your own hands. Again, and again, and again. Now somebody create a George Lucas creature, pronto. [Kezins via The Official Star Wars Blog] More »
Games
Forbes: iPhone Could Kill the DS (Spore Shows Us Why They’re Wrong)
5:30AM Matt Buchanan | Forbes is running a frankly bizarre piece that the DS’s greatest threat is the iPhone, because it has “the touch-sensitive screen of a Nintendo DS with the motion sensitivity of the Nintendo Wii” (the writer is absolutely hyped for this combo) and the upcoming App Store will bring in a flood of games. The primary goods he waves at is EA’s Spore. Not only is he wrong on principle–the iPhone really isn’t about games to start, and remember Apple’s most recent gaming rennaissance?–but Spore actually just proves our point. More »
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