EA has released the Creature Creator to members of the press and also several fan sites - including SporeNetwork. The trial version has also leaked on the Internet, which caused some issues on the renewed official Spore website last weekend. Although currently online access with the free trial is blocked, it will be opened up tomorrow - the 17th. Over 13,000 creatures have already hit Sporepedia, You can find our creatures under the "sporenetwork" tag, webmiss Rosana's creatures are also easily found. More is definitely to come, especially when thousands of people will get their hands on the creature creator tomorrow. Head over to spore.com to get the trial tomorrow!

EA has announced that it will release the Creature Creator of Spore next month, on 17 June. With this editor you can create and share creatures, which you can also play in the full game that is released around 7 September. Creations can also be shared with friends, for example through YouTube movies. The free demo contains 25% of all content that will appear in the final game. There will also be a $9.99/€9,99 paid version which contains all content, though it may not be available in all territories. Buying this version may get you a discount for the full game, as SpaceOddity reports about a French discount offer. The SimCity box, which ships June 23, will also contain the free version of the editor. Read on for the full press release.

It took a while, but it's finally finished and online! I didn't tell about my trip to London for a sneak peek of Spore, because I wasn't sure whether or not we were allowed to tell anyone about it. Of course, it was a lot of fun! I have played Spore for real this time. And I wrote my experiences in my Spore preview. To read this preview, click on the image below:

I haven't told anyone about this until today. SporeNetwork also has a Sporepedia website, where you will be able to download creatures, vehicles, buildings and more, once the game is released! Rosana will be offering the downloads on Sporepedia. And we will tell you more about this soon. Until then, of course you can check out the website, but there's not much on it (yet).

Last week I read an article on the Eurogamer website, in which it became very clear that Europe is the priority when it comes to the release date of Spore. Read the article here.

In my previous news post, I already mentioned that Spore will be released worldwide in September 2008. To confirm this even more, you can view the teaser here on the official website.

I received multiple news letters and press releases with the release date from Spore. Here's the press release in English.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb. 12, 2008
Get ready for the next Big Bang this fall!

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Maxis today announced that Spore(TM), the highly anticipated game from the creators of The Sims(TM), will be available at retailers worldwide the weekend of September 7. Spore will be available for the PC, Macintosh, Nintendo DS(TM), and mobile phones.

"The wait is almost over," said Maxis Chief Designer Will Wright. "We're in our final stages of testing and polish with Spore, and the team at Maxis can't wait to see the cosmos of content created by the community later this year."

Spore gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe created by other gamers.

Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even UFOs. Players can then seamlessly share their creations with the world or explore infinite new galaxies created by other gamers.

Consumers can visit www.spore.com to sign up for the Spore newsletter or check out all-new screenshots and video of the game. Members of the media can visit EA's press site at http://info.ea.com for information about all of EA's games.

I wasn't able to announce the release date on February 12, due to circumstances. But the most important thing is that it has been announced through press releases and news letters from the official Spore website.

Spore will be released worldwide on September 7, 2008. In Europe we're lucky, September 5 for us Europeans! And people from The Netherlands are really lucky, because they will have the game on September 4 (which is a Thursday, and in The Netherlands, Sims expansions are always released on Thursdays).

SporeNetwork is going to change soon. If you have some good ideas, please share them with us on our forums. We will then see whether or not we can use and realize your ideas.

By now we know that we will not only have Spore on our PC's, but also on Mac. For console gamers, there will be the Nintendo Wii version. And for handheld players, Nintendo DS will have a Spore game. For mobile gamers, another Spore game is made.

So it's time for a new poll:

For which platform will you buy Spore?

• PC
• Mac
• Wii
• DS
• Mobile

Vote in the menu on the left!

Sims play Spore before we do, as you can see in a screenshot from the new The Sims 2 expansion 'Free Time':

This week on Macworld EXPO 2008, EA has announced that Spore will be released on both PC and Intel Mac at the same time. Please note that you will onlye be able to play Spore on the Intel Mac, not on the older PPC Mac's. No information yet on the release date.

There's also a new Creature Editor video (on Mac):
Click here to view the video.

On the official Spore website, you can view new artworks. You can also view all of them below. Click on 'read more' to view all of them. And you can also click on the images to get a bigger version.

There have been many new screenshots on the official Spore website for a while now. Here they are all lined up. Click on 'read more' to view all the screenshots. You can click on all the screenshots to get a bigger version.

The official Spore website has been updated with many things, one of them being a video. Click below to watch the video (high or low).

Hi - Lo

Don't send me any pm's just yet about things on the current website that do not work properly. There are still a few kinks here and there. And I'm working on those. Please let me know in our forums what you think about the new layout? Thanks!

Again, thanks to a member on our Dutch Spore forums, a new video with Spore in it. The video shows more than just Spore, if you don't want to see the rest of the video, skip 28 minutes. After that is the part about Spore.

Click here to view the video in a new window.

Tip: download streaming works best

Thanks to a member on our Dutch Spore forums, I found out about a movie about Spore on YouTube. I have been very busy lately, so I had not seen this myself yet.

Click here to view the Spore movie in a new window.

There have been loads of new screenshots and movies from E3 attendees the past couple of days, but because some things went completely wrong (like the wifi in this hotel) I wasn't able to upload anything. But I have uploaded some screenshots now. The vids will follow soon. Here are a few previews. At this very moment I am too exhausted to creatae thums, so the site now actually loads the large screenshots right away. Click 'Read More' to see all of the new screenshots.

It's been quiet on our Spore websites for a few months. That did have something to do with the fact that I also own SimsNetwork/SimsNetwerk. Those websites consume a lot of my free time, and that leaves less time for Spore. But the SNW websites have been changed, improved, which saves me more time. Now it's time for a new look on SporeNetwork. I cannot show a preview just yet, but I will post one soon.

The past couple of days, we were able to see what E3 would bring us this year. I am a bit disappointed that there are no Sims games listed, but you never know of course. But, there will be Spore! That's some good news.

Another interesting fact is that I am flying to Los Angeles next tuesday, to attend E3! For more information or questions, please go to this topic!

One of the most creative sites I've seen in a while is SporeHQ. You should check that site out!! Click here to visit Spore HQ! They're our new affiliate too ;-)

SporeHQ went offline, for unknown reasons. Because of that, I've decided to take their button out of the affiliatesmenu.

It might be a bit quiet with Spore articles and news, but it certainly isn't quiet in the Spore communities! We're happy to announce our affiliation with Planet Spore. A very nice website about (of course) Spore! Visit Planet Spore by clicking here.

We're happy to tell that we have a new affiliate. Sims fans probably know the site SimSational? Well the owners of SimSational also have a Spore website called SporeSome! Visit them by clicking here. Of course you can also click the button in the affiliates block on the right

Finally we're back. It took us some time. We needed to upgrade the website to a more secure one. We got hacked several times, and Spore Network was one of the ways in. Well that's history now.

Hope to see you again in our forums

The only thing I want to do right now is shout out my happiness. Our site was down as many of you may know. But we've managed to get everything back online, like we've promised. We do have some work left though, because the database structure is new and that makes some characters look really weird (or not show up at all). Anyway, I'm happy *wiiiiieeee*

We have two new affiliates. The first is a Dutch Spore fansite, just like Spore Netwerk. Spore Online. Click here to visit Spore Online.

Spore Online does not exist anymore. That's why their button is removed from our affiliates section.

The second affiliate is Snooty Spore. A button will follow soon (a.s.a.p.) in the affiliates block. You can click here to visit Spooty Spore!

Added a button to Snooty Spore in the affiliates block (on the right)!

Finally they're finished.. I'm pretty happy with the result:

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So if you decide to link to Spore Network, now you can. You can also find these banners and buttons on the Buttons page

Gaming Steve has interviewed Will Wright on May 24, and of course they discussed Spore as well. Click here to read the interview. You can listen to the interview as well!

There are 80 Spore screenshots online. More will follow soon. Click here to view the screenshots.