The official release date has finally been set September 7th, 2008. Hurray!! It was first announced in their very orange newsletter on February 12th 2008, so sign up now to get some good stuff from them! I'm looking forward to seeing what they are giving out with their fan site kit. Below is the teaser video with the office release date announced.
This video has a great narration and takes you through the different phases. It has some new video footage as well. There are a lot of videos out there now and the new ones are becoming more difficult to find because of this, and a lot of them are repeats. You don't really learn or see anything new from them other than see different creatures. If I wanted to introduce people to Spore, this is definitely a great video to start them off with.
Here's a recent video, from July 10th, of the different stages of your creatures evolution in Spore. The video lasts 1:32.
Here's a great video of Will Wright's Keynote speech at the iSXSW. It is a 17 minute video going through the different stages of your creature from the tidal period to the space age. The video is very entertaining as Mr. Wright brushes death a lot.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/zachinglis/videos/1/
I have to say its amazing how powerful this game will be. It has a lot of Sim City in it, a lot of Sims, taken to another level. Everyone is about custom content now, and social networks, and I think Spore will hit the nail on the head. It's definately a shame that its not an MMO for if it were I would most likely give up WoW, but perhaps thats something we can look forward to in the future! ;D
Wow, Will Wright on National TV! This was a great interview of Will Wright, interviewed by Stephen Colbert from Comedy Central on December 4th 2006. There really isn't any new information on Spore from this interview, no game demo either. What Mr. Wright did say was that Spore is going to be released in the 2nd half of 2007 which we already knew. He didn't get any more specific. A couple interesting things I noted was that I have rarely seen Stephen go so easy on someone he interviewed. Sure he mocked a little, but he didn't argue. Oh yeah, Will Wright must've taken a speech class because I don't recall him saying any "umms"! :D My favorite lines follow:
Mr. Colbert: Spore sounds strangely like a reproduction system. Is it a sex game? Audience laughs.
Mr. Wright: Well in its basic, yes! Audience laughs.
For those interested, there is also an article by Newsweek on-line entitled Exclusively: Behind the Scenes of Will Wright's Visit to the Colbert Report, published on December 5th 2006.
Here is a video of the the interview for you:
E3 has come to an end for a week now and the dust has settled. There has been no big news out yet since, but there are tons of articles out on the web saying the same things as articles I have already posted. Here is the latest article:
The Annual E3 Awards: 2006 published on May 18th 2006 by GameSpy.com. Spore ranks as the #2 PC game, newcomer Bioschock being #1. Bioshock currently does not have a website. Spore did not rank in any other platforms since they are till working on the PC version. Will Wright does say that they will be coming out on all platforms, so you can probably look for it on cell phones, Wii, X360, PS3, DS, PSP, and possibly even Mac. When concrete news of this has been released, I will post.
New Gameplay Video on GameTrailer.com that was published on May 17th 2006. It is the second video on their list. I think this is one of the best gameplay video's available. It shows every phase of evolution and some of their transitions, wars on your planet, abduction, colonizing other planets, as well as destroying other planets. This video is a must see!
The video everyone has been talking about has been posted on Google videos, so here it is: where Robin Williams tries out Spore himself! Will Wright goes through the same gameplay demonstration as in the gamespot video, Robin William guest stars as he creates his own creature and cracks jokes the entire time. At the end of the video Robin Williams is interviewed on the games he plays, and then another short interview with Will Wright. The movie lasts 39 min 13 sec. Enjoy!
Google videos also has a shorter version of this video of just Robin Williams playing. It is 14 min 2 sec and can be found by clicking here.
The videos of Robin Williams playing Spore has come out! Without a doubt this has been a great press combo for both Robin Williams and Spore. Apparently Robin Williams is quite the gamer! Joystiq has published an article entitled Joystiq Video: Wired Spore Event, featuring Will Wright and Robin Williams [update 3] on May 11th 2006, and uploaded a 420MB video that lasts 40 minutes. They also have smaller download segments if you want to get right to the meat.
A bit torrent of the video has also been found here.
IGN has also covered Spore at the E3. They have a great 2-page article about everything they learned as well as a gameplay video. The video is the same one as the one found on Gamespot but appears to be of much better quality. The article is entitled E3 2006: Spore - Demo and Hands-on Impressions, was written on Dan Adams and published on May 10th 2006. Here is a link to the awesome gameplay video they have.
