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I realise I haven’t been posting much in the way of news lately (though I made it clear that was never my intent, I did hope to post a little more often) so here’s a couple of things you may or may not have missed elsewhere:

Fargo from Gamespy has a very extensive write-up based on the journalist preview build many were invited along to see recently. Way back in the day, when Spore was first announced, an article by Fargo was the very first thing I read about the game. I’ve been hooked ever since!
Fargo writes:

During the microbial phase, we could choose our creature’s diet based on how we played the game (herbivore, omnivore, carnivore). At the end of this stage, our species was tagged with the “Herbivore” characteristic, which gave our creature special herbivore abilities for every future stage of the game.

Garnett Lee over on 1Up also got in on the action. Unlike Fargo, Garnett chose to have a look at the Civilization phase of the game.
Garnett writes:

The Civilization phase presents you with three roads to global domination. If you begin with a religious city, you’ve gotta build the faith and dispatch missionaries to convert rival cities to your cause. Alternatively, you can take the military route and raise a conquering army to take the world by force. I elected to take the remaining choice and began my quest on the economic path. Building wealth is the name of the game here — first by improving your home city, then by establishing trade routes that ultimately lead to buying out all who stand in your way.

Christopher Grant from Joystiq was another of the lucky sods who got to try the game.
He wrote:

Eager to round out my tribal experience, I tried hunting. My first prey: A giant, one-eyed creature who, perhaps unsurprisingly, became rather irate when attacked. Will informed me that I had virtually no chance of defeating a creature of that size right now so, I ran.

There’s a couple more links to previews over on Space Oddity’s Spore Blog if you’re interested, but once you’ve read a couple from the same demonstration you’ve basically read them all. Yes, we know what Spore is, yes it sounds awesome, yes we would like to play it now… :-)

On Space Oddity’s blog you’ll also find a very long write-up of a breakfast chat she had with Chaim Gingold, who did a lot of work on Spore though is no longer on the team. It’s an interesting read so check it out!

Almost last but by no means least, Jube over on Spores Illustrated is running a contest with fantabulous prizes! You can click here for all the details, but the gist is you need to create a creature based on one of three concepts – beef, beer or bandwidth. Pappy-R from Planet Quake will be the judge, you see…

After the break are a couple of video interviews with Will Wright. You can also see someone creating what looks to be either a vehicle or UFO on a very large screen behind him.
I’ve never embedded GameTrailers videos before so let me know if they’re not working for you.
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