Returning Soon

As you may have noticed, for roughly the last 3 weeks I haven’t updated Sporenormous. There is a very good reason for this: I’m not home! I’m actually traveling through Europe right now and I have very limited access to the internet. I’m returning home Sunday morning so by Monday everything will be back to normal here at Sporenormous. Sorry for the inconvenience

Adios.

Celebrity Creature Vote!

It’s time to vote! The Spore celebrity competition is in full swing and you can now vote for your favorite creature/celebrity on Spore Vote. The winner will win a $15,000 donation to his/her favorite charity. Here’s a list of a few of the more interesting celebs participating in the competition (note: not all the celebs have uploaded their creature yet):

• Hiro from Heroes
• Mandy Moore - Singer/Actress
• Sharon Osbourne - Wife of Ozzy
• Phil Defranco, the funny youtube guy
• Benjamin Mackenzie from the OC (not that I ever watched that show..)
• Curt Schilling of the Boston Red Sox
• MC Hammer - yes, he’s back!
• Mario Lopez from Saved by the Bell and so you think you can dance
• Patrick Harris from How I met your mother
• Flight of the Conchords
• Brooke Hogan, the daughter of Hulk Hogan
• Will Wright - I think he has an unfair advantage in this competition..
• Mark Cuban, the megalomaniac owner of the Dallas Mavericks (I’m just joking, he’s actually seems pretty cool)
• Christopher Titus - I remember him from his funny but short lived comedy show ‘Titus’.
• Margaret Cho - a comedian

Creature Videos

Here’s a list of today’s interesting creature videos:

• (Picture) Xbox Controller - Yeah, you heard me!
• Fake Sailer - The most creative creature I’ve seen so far - very neat!
• Pikachu - Great render of Pokemon’s most famous creature
• Charizard - Another great Pokemon render
• Deep crow - a very detailed, high quality creature. Probably my favorite so far.
• Human-like creature - it’s hard to do and this is one of the best attempts at creating a humanoid creature. That said, it really walks funny.
• Minotaur - very well done beast of a creature
• Bizarre Creature - don’t even ask me what this is suppose to be…

Sporepedia hits 330,000+

It’s truly a testament to the popularity of the Spore Creature Creator, with its release but a few days ago the database has already surpassed 330,000 creatures. By the time you will have read this, thousands more will have been added. If don’t peruse it already, I highly suggest you do - you would think with so many creatures, a lot of them would appear very similar.. but they don’t, it’s actually quite amazing. Check out the Sporepedia here.

Spore from Around the Web

Here’s some Spore news from around the web!

• Official Video Tutorial - How to make a praying mantis in the creature creator!
• EA Spore Dance Contest - Win a trip to Washington, DC! Winner is selected by vote.
• EA Cracks Down on Genitalia - It looks like EA wants private parts to remain private. Genitalia-based creatures are being actively removed from Sporepedia
• Penny Arcade Spore Comic - Well, it’s about God. It’s also about a video game.  It’s about making stuff. It must be about Spore!
• IGN Creature Creator Review - Includes a hands-on and numerous videos

Creature Videos

Here’s the list of today’s new creature videos from, courtesy of our very own forum members:

• Tin - by Ghidoran
• ET - by Engeettom
• Creature #3 - by Ben
• Creature #4 - by Shadowdragon
• Creature #5 - by Typhon
• Fwiffo’s SPOOOORE TRAIN - by ThatKeith

If you want to have your creature videos posted here, post them in our creature videos thread and I will select a half a dozen of them every day and include them in our daily creature video news post.

Full Version now Available

The trial version was released earlier today (check the previous post) and now the full version is available for download at Direct2Drive for those who ordered it from that location. However, it appears that it cannot connect with Sporepedia just yet. We’re still awaiting information on the availability of the editor at other outlets. Remember, if you create any interesting creatures and upload a video to youtube, post it in our forum and we will be adding many to the front page later today and throughout the rest of the month. Thanks SporeDaily.

Update: It looks like you can now purchase it from the Spore.com website

Download The Creature Creator

The official Trial Creature Creator is hitting the net! Here’s a list of places you can download it from. Don’t forget it only has 1/4th the features of the full version. Have fun!

• Official Spore Website (Slower, Getting hit by a lot of traffic)
• Computer Games Romania
• Gamers Hell
• Worthplaying

It’s Official: Creature Creator Hits Europe

It looks like the confusion regarding the Creature Creator release date, whether it would be released on the 17th, 18th or the 22nd did not have any substance. I say this because those in Europe are now able to download the trial and/or purchase the full creature creator at EA’s Europe Store. Hopefully later today other regions will have access to it too. Thanks ShadowDragon

Delayed, Again (Probably?)

It looks like the creature creator won’t make its way into our hands until the 22nd. In an odd move, EA pushed the release back for the second time in but a few days. I can imagine that there must be something going wrong behind the scenes and Maxis/EA need some time to resolve it. I only have one source for this information, if you have received this email as well, please say so in our forums. Here’s the email:

Thank you for ordering on Electronic Arts BV. The date when the product that you Pre-Ordered will be released has been changed.
The product listed below will now be available on 22 June 2008

Order ID: ————-
Product ID: ————
Product Name: SPORE™ Creature Creator

If you have further questions regarding your order, please click on this link for assistance

Please note: This e-mail message was sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this message.

Sincerely,
EA Store Customer Service

Thanks HookedonSpore