There have been phallic creatures created in Spore and I’m fairly sure that’s not what EA had in mind when it released the Creature Creator.  Here is something a little more constructive.  Someone has gone and created aliens from the Half Life series in the Creature Creator.

I spent some time with EA’s Spore Creature Creator over the weekend and I have discovered it’s not that fun.  The idea behind it is that you can create your creature and then import it into Spore when it is released in September.  Besides creating your creature, there isn’t much to do in the creator.

Many of us have already played Mass Effect on the Xbox 360 but just to play it.  In my opinion, you don’t really experience the game until it is played properly with a keyboard and mouse and the only way to do that is with a PC.

The idea of a game where real people create and control on screen characters as they do mundane things may have been derided when it first surfaced, but that hasn’t stopped The Sims series of PC games reach the 100 million sales milestone.

3D Realms was behind the original Prey but the project has shifted over to Radar Group for Prey 2.  It was a little disconcerting to hear some say that it was not doing anything else but Prey 2.  That is not the case and in addition to Prey 2 for the PC and Xbox 360 platforms it has some additional titles in the works as well.

The original Prey was far from the best first person shooter but neither was it the worst.  It’s been about two years since Prey was released and the developer behind Prey 2 currently has no other projects on its plate.

One of the best first person shooters/adventure game for the PC and Xbox 360 will be getting a sequel that’s not really a sequel at all.  BioShock let us experience the underwater city of Rapture after it had fallen where splicers, little sisters and Big Daddy’s were running amok; it told us how the story ended.  What was rapture like before all that happened?  The sequel will tell us.

There’s a dying breed in the gaming industry, and I’ll have to beat you with a stick if you try to save it. PC gaming, which for a long time defined the cutting edge in game innovation and advancement, is nearly vanquished in the face of console games. Say goodbye to those gaudy cases and flashing lights; consoles are moving in!

Taking a break from the news for a hot minute, I found myself staring at my Xbox 360, and its blinking ring of death. It’s been nearly two weeks and I still haven’t gotten my coffin, which will indeed be my fourth coffin. Either way, I started weighing the pros and cons of owning each console, and you know what? To hell with the 360. I’m buying a PlayStation 3.

Along with these seasonal upgrades for the Playstation 3 and its online store, Sony has taken some time to do the same for the PSP.