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Maxis, the studio behind the SimCity and Spore franchises, has a “triple-A simulation style game” in the works, according to recruiting.

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Industry sleuth Superannuation has turned up an intriguing reference to a possible console port for Maxis’ action RPG, Darkspore.

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A new video’s landed for EA’s upcoming hybrid action RPG, Darkspore. Meet Skar: a dual wielding, death-dealing, stealthy son of a gun.

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If you have a couple of days to devote to helping stress test Maxis’ RPG, hit up Steam and sign up for the DarkSpore open beta.

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The official forum for DarkSpore has confirmed that the game will miss its March 29 release and instead release towards the end of April. More betas are planned during this time as well.

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EA has announced an extremely time-limited offer for Darkspore pre-orders: a free copy of Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition. Sightly more impressive than an extra costume or two, wouldn’t you say?

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EA’s revealed the Viper hero class for Maxis’ Darkspore.

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A recently discovered and very nasty bug in the console versions of The Sims 3 has caused dismay among players, and e no explanation from EA.

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Maxis has announced the start of closed beta testing for Darkspore.

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Maxis has released a trailer for Darkspore, showing off the Limited Edition version and its exclusive, in-game preorder bonus, the heavily-armoured Maldri.

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Systems designer Paul Sottisanti introduces us to another of Drakspore’s 25-plus heroes: Andromeda, the Gravitic War Master.

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A new video exposé of Darkspore’s creature editor has demonstrated how the Spore-inspired sci-fi RPG caters for both streams of customisation – getting your individual look down pat, and min-maxing like Zhuge Liang on a tactical trip. Love a gauntlet but hate its stat? Strip the numbers off and slap it on as decoration.

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Maxis and EA has put out a new video for Darkspore, showing how cooperative works in the game.

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Maxis has put out a new producer diary for Darkspore, and it’s all about the loot.

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It looks as though the only assistance BioWare’s lending to Maxis on the development of Darkspore happens to be in the writing department.

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Maxis confirmed over the weekend during its Comic-Con panel that BioWare is helping out on development with the recently-announced DarkSpore.

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Organizers of San Diego Comic Con updated the event’s website today with panel information for Saturday, July 24.

Interestingly enough, one of the panels will reveal the new game in the Spore series.

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Rumor has it that the 1500 jobs and the dozen or so in-development games that were cut at EA affected studios Pandemic, Maxis and almost the entire Command & Conquer team.

According to a source close to Kotaku, the team working on Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight was notified today that once the game ships some time in 2010, almost the entire team is to hit the road.

While this is not a surprising move by the studio, as loads like it have a tendency to do that once a game ships, the cutbacks also landed blows to EA Maxis, Rupture Studios and Pandemic with remaining workers being relocated to EA Los Angeles and Redwood.

Rumors also state that EA has laid-off staff at Black Box, Mythic Entertainment and Tiburon.

We’ll sent out a mail and see if anyone gets back with us.

EA has announced the first expansion pack for The Sims 3, known as The Sims 3: World Adventures, which will ship worldwide on November 16.

The expansion sees your Sims taken out of Sunset Valley as they go across around the world to countries including China, France and Egypt.

Press release and the first three screens are after the jump.

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EA has announced that Spore: Galactic Adventures will have downloadable content made available from the wacky Robot Chicken folks.

The content will contain everything from angry yetis, exploding poo, librarians with rulers, and who knows what else from the demented minds of co-creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich.

“We’re big fans of Spore, so teaming up on Spore Galactic Adventures was a natural fit and so much fun for all the guys at Robot Chicken,” said Green.

“We’re all gaming geeks, so when the Spore guys said they had an alluring proposition for us, how could we say no?” added Senreich.

“Instead of creating absurd worlds with toys, this gave us the opportunity to create literally anything we wanted as gamers. Geek moment. We think that RC fans will love the pretty random and absurd adventures we created and we can’t wait to goof around with the ones the fans create.”

The Robot Chicken DLC will be free and launches on June 23 with the game.

Press release is below.
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