The first full-expansion to the evolution game Spore, namely Galactic Adventure, will be released in the first quarter of 2009. But EA Maxis has now announced that this will not be the only new Spore material for the year. With the mentioned expansion, four new Spore games will hit the market in 2009. more...

EA and a company called Z Corporation have partnered to offer basically the same service that former Microsoft Games Vice President Ed Fries offers with his company FigurePrints for World of WarCraft: 3D figurines of your unique Spore creatures. more...

As can be read at Kotaku Australia, a list of the top ten games shared over BitTorrent this year was recently posted. The heavily discussed Spore(1,700,000 copies) leads this list although, or rather because of its unpopular use of DRM (Digital Rights Management). more...

Today, Electronic Arts had their Q2 2009 Earnings Conference Call. The following bits should be interesting to gamers. Let's start with some statements from EA's CEO John Riccitiello from the investor phone call:

Claiming that Spore already has reached a level of 30 million sold, excuse me, of 30 million creatures created by the users, EA today announced details on the first Spore add-on or "Parts Pack", Creepy & Cute (see our earlier news) and also on the second add-on, which will probably called [b]Space Expansion Pack more...

Was it only a matter of time until the cash cow kicked in again at EA Games? more...

The copy protection of EA's newest hit, Spore seems to cause what it should have prevented in the first place: illegal copies. more...

After EA's three-and-a-half year hype, that even kicked in before any viewable material was available, Will Wright's newest game Spore has just been unleashed onto the market(s). Even though Wright is of the opinion that review scores don't count, but sales figures do, it is astounding what a united picture game journalists have expressed in their reviews about the ups and downs of Spore (despite hideously different game scores). And then there still remains the question about "evolution" in Spore. more...

So you have eventually bought Spore now but still can't be bothered to invest hours upon hours into collecting resources? Are you about to die and in urgent need of more health? We got some cheat codes for you here on GamersGlobal that should help you to keep up with your fanatic Spore mates. more...

American developer Maxis released a few prototypes of their simulation Spore on the game's official website. The small programs are available for free and worth the download if you are interested in the long-term development of the game's core concepts. more...