Archive for 2007
Something’s new around here
If you’re a semi-regular to Total Spore — you’ll notice quite a bit’s changed recently. We’re now sporting a brand new design and a ton of features to boot! What’s new? Brand new design Fully re-skinned forums Private messaging Much better spam protection A useful homepage for forum-goers Useful user-profile page (well, more useful). It’ll get better soon hopefully. Live chat (register [...]
Clearing a few things up
Total Spore was created as a side project of mine about one and a half years ago. The growth of this site has been phenomenal, and I’ve struggled to keep up with it. Fortunately for me, we’ve been developing an awesome community of Spore fans that have kept this site flying along. Total Spore [...]
Spore Release Date Official
The day has come my friends: a day we’ve long awaited. A real release date! Spore will be released on March 3, 2008 Update: EA has posted Spore will be on store shelves September 7, 2008. Hopefully this date sticks! How do I know this? because starting today you can really, [...]
“Spore is Finished”
Or so the first words of the first hands on review of Spore starts off. Most of the review is things we’ve already heard elsewhere — except this time they’re being echoed by a real player. To me, that’s pretty important — because he runs into things that you wouldn’t think of normally [...]
E3: Then and now
Remember last year’s E3? When it was the end-all-be-all of Spore information? Well, times have changed a bit, but so has Spore! There’s been little information in the way of gameplay and new significant features announced since then: but the game has definitely been in heavy development. Here’s a great video showing the difference in gameplay from E32006 and E3Suck… err E32007.
Bad news, no Spore till 2008
It seems that in a conference call EA announced that Spore won’t be a target for this fiscal year — which ends in March 2008. Can someone say ouch ?
Total Spore turns one!
So it’s been one year since Total Spore opened it’s doors and my have we grown. Over the past twelve months, this site has grown beyond my wildest expectations. What have we seen? Over 400,000 pageviews, with almost 90,000 pageviews monthly now Two (and a half) stories have made it to the front page of [...]
Looking for contributors
Total Spore is looking to bring on a couple of people to help fix up the Game Information, post articles, and moderate the forums. If you’re interested, apply here. It’s going to be a good year for Spore!
Spore demo at SXSW
Will Wright lead the Keynote for SXSW (South by Southwest), an interactive festival held in Austin today. First up, we’ve got a tape of the demo: Props to Zach for the video. There’s more footage coming (of Will Wright talking), but we’ll have to wait for the HD processors to catch up. I’ll keep you [...]
Popular Science article on Spore
There is an absolutely fantastic article about Spore over at Popular Science. Give it a read, it’ll do you good!
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Countdown to Spore
Spore is one of the most epic games to ever hit the market. At GDC '05 we saw our first glimpse of Spore and have been eagerly waiting in anticipation since. The current estimated actual release date is September 7, 2008.
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