Over 120 small clips from several games like Civilization, Disney's Epic Mickey and World of Warcraft can be seen at the recently launched Critical Path documentary website. And ofcourse Will Wright is there too!
Check it here: Critical Path Wright clip
New interview
10 July, 2012
GamesIndustry had a big interview with Will Wright where he talks about multi-platforms and cloud gaming.
Go see it here: Interview
Interview
3 January, 2012
Will Wright has given a new interview on his upcoming new game HiveMind. He tells how he came up with the idea and how the game works.
Check it here: Yahoo news article
HiveMind
23 December, 2011
New article from msnbc.com on Wright's new game Hivemind: New article
HiveMind
24 November, 2011
Though Will Wright has left Maxis, he didn't stop making games. His next project is called HiveMind.
Read everything about this game in the following article and interview: Article - Interview
Restart
24 November, 2011
Another shot at restarting this site. Reason is that there's a new game coming from Will Wright, called HiveMind. I will be following the development of this new game extensively here.
Also, there's a Twitter account where you can easily be kept up to date about both this site and news from Will Wright. Check the link on the right for this.
Article
16 February
CNN posted an article where Wright explains that games are not good for story telling.
Check the article here: CNN interview
Wright leaves Maxis
9 April
Everybody was speculating what Will Wright's next project was after Spore. Well, his next move is that he will leave Maxis/EA and will focus a lot more on his hobby project Stupid Fun Club.
You can read a lot about this Club here: Stupid Fun Club info And the press release of this move can be found here: Press release
Interview
26 March
Oreilly Radar had an interesting interview with Will Wright. They talk about his very early beginnings all the way up to Sims 3 and his future plans (though he won't reveal what they are though).
Check it here: New interview
New interview
23 March
Scientific American posted an interview where Wright answers questions about robotics.
Find this interview here: Scientific American Q & A
No.3 best game creator
8 March
IGN did a list of the best 100 game creators. Will Wright was placed at No.3! Here's the top 3:
1: Shigery Miyamoto
2: Sid Meier
3: Will Wright
Check Wright's place here: IGN list
Will Wright Selected as SIGGRAPH Keynote Speaker
5 March
EA sent out a press release stating that Will Wright will be a keynote speaker at SIGGRAPH.
SIGGRAPH 2009 will bring together thousands of computer graphics and interactive technology professionals to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA from 3-7 August at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
Check the news here: Press release
Contact
2 March
I occasionally get mails from people with the question for contacting Will Wright. Since this is not an official fansite, I don't have any means of contacting him. So for more clarification, I added a small notice about this fact on the right side of this site.
Charity design
15 February
Too bad I missed this one, else I might have bid for it! Will Wright made a design for a charity organization. It's a schematic circuitry design and looks pretty cool.
Check it out here: Pushing the Envelope
Birthday
20 January
Congratulations to Will Wright as January 20, he turned 49!
Video interview
19 January
And here is yet another video interview. This time from GameTrailers. It comes in 2 parts; In the first, Wright talks about Spore. In the second he's asked about the future of gaming.
Check it here: Video 1 - Video 2
Video interview
13 January
Some time ago, Will Wright gave a video interview to Gamevideos where he talks about some of Spore features.
Check it here: Gamevideos.com
Apple store visit
5 January
A small, somewhat old newsitem but still interesting; A press release was sent out by EA just because of Will Wright visiting an Apple store (to demo his Spore game). This visit was at June 21st though.
Check the details here: Mercurynews.com
Easter egg
20 September
Maxis is known for putting eastereggs in their games and Spore is no different. In the Creature Creator, when you spin the galaxy around, the head of Will Wright appears!
Read more here: Kotaku.com
New interview
3 September
Seed Magazine had a very long interview with Will Wright. They start out with Spore but soon they wonder off to many other subjects. Below a part:
"Basically replace the magic with science, because I think science is every bit as magic as any magic. I never really like fantasy books for that reason. I was never a big Tolkien fan. I always felt that magic kind of removed the drama from a story because magic could do anything; there were no limitations."
The official UK Sims site brings the news that tomorrow, September 3, Will Wright is visiting the Uk. You can get your Spore copy signed by the creator himself!
Check this news here: Thesims.co.uk
Talk at Vancouver Art Gallery
23 August
A few days ago, I wrote that Wright was having a talk at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He talked about the abstraction of gaming, film envy and many, many other things. Gamasutra has written down almost this whole talk.
Check it here: Gamasutra article
Wright in Spore trailer
20 August
Here's a nice Spore trailer where Will Wright explains the game throughout all the different game stages.
Check it out here: Actiontrip.com
The Will Wright minute
19 August
Gaming Today brings the news about The Will Wright minute. G4TV.com give Will Wright a minute to talk about some of his interests. 2 movies have been made already. In the first, he talks about a Russian Space station (One of his hobbies) and the 2nd is about 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Check the movies here: Minute 1 - Minute 2
New article
18 August
June 4th, Wright spoke at the Vancouver Art Gallery. But before that event, the Vancouver Sun had a little talk with him. He speaks about focus groups (how he hates those), and about the games industry in general.
Check the article here: Vancouver Sun
New interview
17 August
For those that missed the news on Snooty Sims, Will Wright gave a big interview on News.com. He talks about Spore, The Sims series and much more.
Read it here: News.com
Ask Will questions
16 August
First of all, I would like to apologize for the lack of news. There was a massive amount of news for the Snooty Sims site (as well as lots of behind the screens work) and there just wasn't enough time to update. But now the Sims news has slowed down a bit, I will start updating again. To prevent 1 huge update, I will just update this site every day with one newspost.
To start off with something interesting, Gamedaily gives the chance for you to ask Will Wright questions. The 10 most interesting will be given to Will.
Check all the info here: Game Daily Thanks to Sim Programs for the find.
