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Space Oddity's Spore
Space Oddity's Spore (spaceoddityblog.planets.gamespy.com) has great Spore news, photos, videos and more
Thursday, Oct 1
Weighty Science news
Spore Galaxy Today astronomers will publish exciting news in Nature about observations of the distribution of dark matter. The concept of dark matter is used in science to explain the expansion of the universe. As you might know, galaxies revolve around their center, so the centrifugal f...
Tuesday, Sep 22
3D Spore creature viewing using webGL
The export-creature-to-COLLADA function of Spore, which allows exporting 3D models from the Sporepedia, is now used to show off the abilities of webGL. I found out about it through a post on ars technica. They explain what webGL is and what is being done with it. You could also follow this dir...
Wednesday, Sep 16
Spore Hero preview
Loot Ninja has a nice article about the preview they got from Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena. They also show a new video with the cinematic opening of the Wii game: Loot Ninja has a nice article about the preview they got from Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena. They also show a new video with the cin...
Saturday, Sep 12
Spore Hero and Hero Arena gone gold
The Wii/DS versions of Spore are officially finished and ready for production. The release date is Oct 6th for the US and Oct 9th in the rest of the world. To support the release a new website is opened: SporeHero.com The Wii/DS versions of Spore are officially finished and ready for productio...
Sunday, Sep 6
Spore Creatures for iPhone announced
At PAX’09 a new Spore app for the iPhone was revealed. In Spore Creatures you play as a land-based creature as somewhat of a sequel to Spore Origins. There are boss battles, camera support, and new creature parts that you will evolve across 20 levels in 4 different zones. PocketGamer has an exc...
Monday, Aug 31
New DS Spore title in the works
Aussie-Nintendo has news about a future Spore title on DS, called Spore Creature Keeper. EA requests an ESRB rating and summerizes the game as follows: Rating summary: This is a simulation game in which players can customize and care for creatures through several stages of life. Players m...
Sunday, Aug 30
Spore Hero video
Today it is Destructoid, of all gaming sites, features a new video of Spore Hero. Normally not too impressed with Spore they have hopes for this one. Today it is Destructoid, of all gaming sites, features a new video of Spore Hero. Normally not too impressed with Spore they have hopes for this o...
Thursday, Jan 22
Four new Spore products this year
More news about Spore extensions is slowly coming out. CVG reports to have spoken to EA’s Morgan Roarty about four new Spore products to be released this year: Spore: Galactic adventures, which allows … … players to customize their own planets and create their own adventures to share with...
Tuesday, Nov 4
Will Wright on the role of the ‘cute’ team
Will Wright As many of you know, there has lately been a lot of talk about the ‘cute’ and the ’science’ factions in Spore’s development team. Some people seem to blame one single member of the ‘cute’ team for everything they think is wrong with Spore. In the Sporum there’s a long thread about th...
Sunday, Nov 2
WW interview transcript
WW: Parts of the Space model will be, you know, more missions. So we looking for to expand Spore into unexpected areas. YourSpore: In the development of Spore what was the biggest problem you encountered? skipped a bit of non-Spore related stuff]
Saturday, Oct 18
Podcast: Popular Mechanics interview Will Wright
JudHudson of Simprograms found this MP3 file on the Popular Mechanics Show Podcast. They talk to Will Wright in a 30 minute interview. Topics range from Artificial Intelligence, Spore to Obama ads in video games. Link to the MP3 file Link to the video
Friday, Oct 17
New Spore patch
The new Spore patch has arrived, go to http://www.spore.com/patch for all the details. This is seemingly PC version only, but from the sound of it there is a Mac version on the way too. Things in particular that I like: # Hold down the Control key in Sporepedia to select multiple creations for de...
Wednesday, Oct 15
Lucy Bradshaw talks to 1UP
1UP: In the time leading up to Spore’s release, a lot of people got really interested in the game thanks to Will Wright, who has always been very outspoken about it and has given some really great presentations. Is he still involved in these expansions going forward, or has he moved on to diff...
Thursday, Sep 18
First Spore patch available
Those of you who’ve played the game today will already know; there’s a patch out that patches Spore to version 1.01.000. What’s been fixed, you ask? Well: Features * New Cheat: “evoadvantage”. Enter this cheat when are starting a new Creature game to choose any creature from the Sporepedia. St...
Tuesday, Sep 9
Spore Creature Creator flash demo
Darcie of Gaming Steve found a good way to pass the time, for all of you people out there still waiting for your copy of Spore. On the Official Spore website you can now play a demo of Spore’s little DS brother, Spore Creatures! ...
Monday, Sep 1
Will Wright in Paris
But it still shows a seventy odd people -writing press, radio, TV and blogs- were present, so readers from France be on the look out for Spore presence the coming days. Tomorrow: Madrid! The day after tomorrow: London!
