Spore Islands opens on Facebook

If Civilization can be on Facebook than any game can do it right? That’s probably EA and Maxis studios’ way of thinking. Today EA announced that it is bought Spore Islands to Facebook. In Spore Islands Facebook users compete against each other in a 2D world that uses social gaming as its lynch pin.

Spore Islands focuses on player-to-player interaction; users choose their own island to live on, create creatures and evolve them, invite friends to live on their island with them, and send their creatures to friends’ islands. The goal of the game is to dominate as many islands as possible. Players can earn and purchase DNA points that they can use to modify their creature’s stats or customize their creature’s appearance with accessories such as hats, animations, holiday-themed items, and more. Players’ progress is tracked on both Global and a Friends-only leaderboards, which can be viewed by players and their friends, u

Get into the action by installing the application from apps.facebook.com/sporeislands.

A double dose of Spore Hero in stores this week

Electronic Arts has released Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena in North America with an international date of October 9th. Built specifically for the Wii and Nintendo DS, Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena give players different adventures in the new game universe built by Will Wright and carried on by EA’s Maxis studio.

Spore Hero is an action-adventure game that lets the player become a hero on a quest to save their creature’s home planet from destruction by the evil nemesis, Zarkhator. Along this journey, players engage in battles, solve puzzles, and explore to collect more than 250 creature parts, all with unique abilities. These parts, which can be used to customize creatures in the Spore Creature Creator, can change the way creatures will play and fight in the world. Players can also utilize their acumen in fighting in multiplayer mode, battling their friends with their own customized creature.

Spore Hero Arena is a pared down version of Hero with players taking on fighters in arenas throughout the galaxy or via multiplayer.

Players can create their own unique gladiator hero creature and guide it from planet to planet as they fight enemy creatures, collect new parts, gain upgrades and unlock special abilities that will benefit their hero. Spore Hero Arena also allows multiplayer combat with up to three friends locally or over Wi-Fi and share creature creations over a Wireless network.

Available for $49.99 MSRP, Spore Hero is rated E10+ by the ESRB. Spore Hero Arena is available for $29.99 MSRP and is rated E by the ESRB.

Spore - The Movie?

According to a report in the Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox has acquired the film rights to Electronic Arts and Maxis Spore video game to create a computer-generated animated feature of some sort. As you know Will Wright, creator of such hits as The Sims and SimCity, is the mastermind behind Spore. Chris Wedge, who directed Ice Age and Robots for the Fox studio, is attached to the project.

Wedge hasn’t directed a movie since 2005’s “Robots,” which grossed $128.2 million. He’s also attached to direct “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” which is set up at Warner Bros.

This could be a very fun movie if it is done right, and Wedge has done a good job thus far with animated films, so it has the potential to be good. We’ll keep you posted.

Spore Creature Creator goes 2-D

The Spore Creature Creator has officially become 2D. Maxis has released Spore Creature Creator 2-D, a new Flash application that lets users experience the creature builder in one less dimension. Available for free at www.spore2d.com, players can create a creature from scratch or import a creature from the Sporepedia. The 2-D creatures users create can also be embedded into social networking pages, and shared with friends via email.

The launch of Spore Creature Creator 2-D comes just weeks before the launch of Spore Hero for the Wii) and Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo DS on Oct. 6.

Spore Hero, Spore Hero Arena dated for October

Electronic Arts will release Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena to North American retailers on Oct. 6 2009 and internationally on Oct. 9, 2009. Built for the Wii and Nintendo DS, Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena give Nintendo fans a taste of Maxis’ popular new franchise with some platform specific adventures.

Spore Hero is an action-adventure game for the Wii set in a 3D world where players are charged with being hero on a mission to save their home planet from total destruction. Players engage in battles, and solve puzzles and collect and unlock more than 250 new creature parts, all with unique abilities. These parts, which can be used to customize creatures in the Spore Creature Creator, can change the way creatures will play and fight in the world. Players can also utilize their brawling in multiplayer mode against friends.

Spore Hero Arena for DS is an arena-based combat game featuring a story set in the same universe as Spore Hero. Spore Hero Arena takes players on a quest to save planets in their galaxy from an evil force. They’ll do this by creating a unique gladiator hero creature and guide it from planet to planet as they fight enemy creatures, collect new parts, gain upgrades and unlock special abilities. Developed with multiplayer capabilities in mind, Spore Hero Arena also allows players to battle with up to three friends locally or play with a friend over Wi-Fi

Spore Hero will Retail for $49.99 MSRP, while Spore Hero Arena will be available for $29.99

Users created content for Spore Galactic Adventures hits 100K

While it has only been a month since the launch of Spore Galactic Adventures, EA’s Maxis studio is reporting a major milestone today: more than 100,000 user-created adventures. Spore fans have created imaginative, wacky and fun missions with the game’s Adventure Creator. These adventures include such notables as The Silent Beacon, Valley of a Thousand Deaths and The Fog. More details on these missions can be found at the Sporepedia at www.spore.com.

Spore Galactic Adventures lets players take their creations from Spore on various kinds of adventures or make their own as noted above. This expansion pack requires the original game to play, of course. Available for PC and MAC® for $29.99, Spore Galactic Adventures is rated E10+ by the ESRB.

Spore Galactic Adventures released

The latest Spore game product from Maxis, Spore Galactic Adventures, is now available at North American retailers and will hit store shelves internationally on June 25th. This expansion to the original game delivers new adventures including becoming a space captain, exploring strange new planets, creating your own customized adventures, and taking your Spore creatures into the deepest darkest corners of a brand new galaxy.

In addition to the adventures in the box, players can download ten all-new adventures created by the writers of Robot Chicken. Available for free to all Spore Galactic Adventures owners, the Robot Chicken adventures take players through such twisted quests as a mission to obtain a library card by finding a ruler-yielding librarian her true love, and an adventure to save a princess by battling demonic snowmen in a snowglobe. Conceptualized by Robot Chicken co-creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich, the Robot Chicken Adventures were imagined by the show’s writing team including Matt Beans, Doug Goldstein, Mike Fasolo, Breckin Meyer, Dan Milano, Tom Root, Kevin Shinick, Hugh Sterbakov and Zeb Wells.

Available for PC and MAC for $29.99, Spore Galactic Adventures requires the original Spore game to play. Be sure to check out Crispy Gamer’s Spore Galactic Adventures Review.