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  Interview 2 May  
  The Guardian had an interview with Will Wright where they talk about Spore but also a bit about his past:

"My focus started shifting more and more to players, and what they were doing," he says, "Because I found that fundamentally as interesting, or more interesting, than the actual games [was] parallel play. Sitting and looking at what someone else has done with the same game as you is fundamentally interesting to me."

Check the interview here: Guardian interview


  A challenge with Spore 20 April  
  Yahoo posted a small article about some of the problems Wright had to overcome with Spore. Here's a quote from the article:
"It is more of a social experiment," Wright said. "Science, economics, sociology, things like that are very fun to simulate in the computer."
Find the article here: Yahoo article

  Will Wright speaks at NASA 11 April  
  Another article on Wright from Kotaku; He will speak at NASA's upcoming Yuri's Night Celebration in the Bay Area this Saturday. This Yuri's Night is an annual celebration of space exploration.
Read more about it here: Kotaku article

  Will Wright: Curator? 10 April  
  Kotaku brings the news that Will Wright has signed on for co-curator for an upcoming museum exhibition in Vancouver. This exhibition will show the worlds of anima, comics and video games. Wright will also show a Spore preview there.
Read more about it here: Kotaku article

  New interview 8 April  
  It is of some weeks ago, but Gamespot posted a very interesting video interview with Will Wright. He talks about the very beginning; his youth, education and how he started in games.
Watch it here: Gamespot interview

  Site news 7 April  
  A new addition to the Hobbies section, namely books. Maybe an odd subject but books are a very important part in Wright life.
Check it here: Books

  Site news 6 April  
  A small site update. There is now a news archive where the older newsposts are being placed. For now, all the news from 2006 and before is placed there.
- News archive

  GDC talk 23 February  
  Wright made several talks at the GDC. The following talk does not concern Spore but here he talks about a lot of different things, like James Bond, Star Wars, Sims, etc. He even talks about his childhood where he mentioned he was really scared of Godzilla. Watch the talk here: Podtech.net

  New interview 20 February  
  IconEye had an interview with Wright where he talks about people that inspired him by his game creation. Also he talks about user-generated content and how important that is in his games.
Read it here: Iconeye.com

  Birthday 20 January  
  Congratulations to Will Wright as January 20 he turned 48!

  New interview 19 January  
  Rockpapershotgun.com posted a very big interview with Will Wright. In it, he talks about how the development about The Sims game went.
Find it here: Rockpapershotgun.com

  New interviews 29 October  
  Will Wright gave 2 interviews after his BAFTA award. 1 To the guardian and 1 to Gamespot UK. He talks about his favorite console Wii, the game industry in general and ofcourse Spore. Find the links below:
- The Guardian.co.uk
- Gamespot UK

  Wired article: Racing succes 16 October  
  Those that have seen the History section on this site have read a little bit of Wright's succes in his short racing career. But Wired now devoted a whole article on it.
Reason is an upcoming documentary about American automotive history.
Read this article here: Wired.com

  Wright inducted into BAFTA Fellowship 16 October  
  Will Wright will shortly join an exclusive number of household names from TV and Film as he becomes the first recipient of the Fellowship from the video games industry at the British Academy Video Games Awards 2007. The Fellowship is the highest accolade the Academy can bestow on an individual for their creative work.
Read more about it here: Press release

  Wright: Too many sequels 8 July  
  Kotaku posted a small post where they quote a German article where Wright says that there are too many sequels.
Read the article here: Kotaku.com

  Gaming: 2012 16 May  
  The New Yorker posted a video where Will Wright shows the Spore game but also talks alot about game design.
See the movie here: The New Yorker

  Another speech 3 February  
  Next-Gen.biz bring the news that Wright will give a presentation called "I am not alone in this universe", about building the Spore team. The speach will be hold on the DICE summit next Thursday, February 8.
Read the article here: Next-gen.biz

  Keynote address 31 January  
  Gamasutra.com brings the news that Wright will give a keynote address at the 2007 ScreenBurn Festival. This event will be held from March 9-13 in Austin, Texas.
Read the article here: Gamasutra.com

  Misc. news 7 January  
  Gamebrink.com found some new pictures from the DS version of SimCity. In this version, Will Wright plays an advisory role.
Find the pics here: Gamebrink DS pics
The Escapist posted an interesting article about the early years of Maxis. Most of the article is about Sim City and SimAnt.
Find the article here: Escapist article
Thanks to SimGlobal for finding it.


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