Spore – SIMphoni

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Spore Patch 3 is now available through the in-game update menu, or at the official Spore site. Only three fixes this time around:

Fix for esc key not bringing up Options in Galaxy Game Entry
Fix for creator backgrounds appearing on small sporepedia cards
Update to help keep achievements on the server in sync with achievements in the game

But, [...]

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Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack Brings Horror and Humor to Spore Fans Worldwide This Week

EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Will your creatures be creepy or cute, full of humor or horror? The choice is now in the hands of Spore™ and Spore Creature Creator* players! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Maxis today announced that Spore Creepy & [...]

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Good news from our friend MaxisCactus for all of you who like creating insect-like creatures in Spore!
We’ve heard your requests for more parts, and we’ll be releasing 24 new exoskeleton limbs for free in this patch!  This includes 12 new arms and 12 new legs to make your creations creep and crawl along. 
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EA have finished their work on a first iteration on the road to fixing the “only one screen name per Spore install” issue. Caryl Shaw reports on the official Spore Forums:
You can now set up multiple screen names for your Spore account.Log in to spore.com and go to your profile page. At the top of [...]

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In addition to the first Spore PC patch a Mac version has now been released as well. According to EA the patch can be obtained as follows:
For MAC players, the patch can be obtained by simply starting your game.
The change log is mostly the same as the one for PC.

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Our friends over at Simprograms have put up what I think is the first userbase released tool for Spore. According to its creator Eradicator:
SporeEdit is a program under development that allows for rapid changes to the properties of Spore.
If you have tested the program, please let us know your opinion in the forums!

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The first patch for Spore has been released at the official website. There’s a lot of stuff that has been addressed in this patch, but it should be noted that the multi-user functionality that was promised yesterday of course didn’t make it into this patch yet  It should also be noted that this first patch [...]

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If you live in North America and are interested in the science behind Spore, be sure to tune to National Geographic Channel next Tuesday:
Interested in exploring the genetic information we share with all animals? Tune in to How to Build a Better Being on National Geographic Channel Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT [...]

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The worldwide release day of Spore will come to an end in a little under 6 hours. So: did you get the game? What are your initial reactions? Were there nice suprises in the game that you’d like to share? Want to ask for help on certain aspects? What would you still like to see [...]

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The server problems that have plagued the release of Spore in Europe appear to have been fixed. After EA requested information on the nature of the bugs yesterday it only took an additional couple of hours to get the problems solved. Simphoni members in Europe who already have the game have reported they are now able to [...]

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