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Spore Origins available for iPod (classic!)

Aug 25, 2008 | Posted by Kyle | 13 comments

Looks like Maxis just let loose Spore Origins (iTunes link) to play on your iPod classic (not your iPhone or iPod Touch) From the description: Eat or be eaten when you play SPOREā„¢ Origins on your iPod. Guide your spore through its evolution and shape its destiny. Devour smaller creatures, explore primordial worlds filled with [...]

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Playing Spore @ Maxis Studios

Aug 24, 2008 | Posted by Kyle | 11 comments

On August 22, I got to travel to Maxis Studios at Emeryville, visit other community site owners, top Spore enthusiasts, meet the developers and finally play SPORE. One of the most awesome parts of community day was being able to play SPORE for myself. The Maxis crew let us play for about 3 hours or so [...]

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Questions answered @ Maxis Studios

Aug 23, 2008 | Posted by Kyle | 12 comments

On August 22, I got to travel to Maxis Studios at Emeryville, visit other community site owners, top Spore enthusiasts, meet the developers and finally play SPORE. To start off my posts regarding our community day I thought I might answer a bunch of questions. Most of these came from my lengthy gameplay session, and a [...]

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Quick update on Spore preview @ Maxis Studios

Aug 22, 2008 | Posted by Kyle | 10 comments

First off: awesome Secondly, today has been a crazy day of Spore, beers, developers, traffic, concerts, and beers. So to that end, my writeup of today is going to take a little while to gather together. For now, here’s a quick slideshow of all my photos I took today (completely unedited). Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. P.S. May take [...]

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We’re getting close

Aug 08, 2008 | Posted by Kyle | 13 comments

September 7th is less than month away, and soon the whole world is going to get lost in Spore’s universe. So what’s next in line for Total Spore? All kinds of things! More integrated site Before the game launches, Total Spore will be relaunching with a more interactive experience. Something more than just adding [...]

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… And the winners are!

Jun 18, 2008 | Posted by Kyle | 12 comments

The first contest for Total Spore is finally over! We had nearly 150 entries from our members without there even being a creature creator exposed! Winners Let’s get to the down & dirty. 1st Place: Tri’Eye by WORMSS I think from the first second I saw this creation I fell in love — it’s just completely awesome. Nevermind the [...]

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Creature Creator is here!

Jun 17, 2008 | Posted by Kyle | 14 comments

After years of waiting we can finally (legally) download an play around with the creature creator! Go and get you some!

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Total Spore Summer Updates

Jun 08, 2008 | Posted by Kyle | 13 comments

What a week! Earlier this week Total Spore launched our creations gallery. In just 5 days we’ve seen a huge contribution from our members! Here’s some stats from the past five days: Over 100 creations submitted Over 350 drawings uploaded Over 250 comments Over 250 ratings All I can say is: our community rocks! Thanks for [...]

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Welcome in Total Spore’s Creation Collection!

Jun 03, 2008 | Posted by Kyle | 12 comments

Only about two weeks left before the Creature creator is released, I’ve finally launched something I’ve envisioned for Total Spore for a long time now — the Creation Collection. Starting today you can use your existing forum account and go to the My Total Spore section and upload drawings of your creations from Spore, [...]

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Creature editor available in June

Apr 17, 2008 | Posted by Kyle | 18 comments

In a recent interview, Patrick Buechner (VP of marketing, Maxis) revealed that Spore’s creature editor should be available sometime in June. So can you confirm the Spore Creature Creator will be in the SimCity Box when it ships in June? A trial version of the Spore Creature creator will be available [...]

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Ted

Countdown to Spore

Spore is one of the most epic games to ever hit the market. At GDC '05 we saw our first glimpse of Spore and have been eagerly waiting in anticipation since. The current estimated actual release date is September 7, 2008.

9 Days, 13 Hours To Release

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