Will Wright had the first idea, Ed Fries was the first to make it work for WoW characters with FigurePrints.com (we'll have more on them, including a studio tour, on Friday), Rock Band recently joined the party and EA has just announced Spore Sculptures!

3D printing is what it's all about - technology that can take a model from a video game and make a physical copy of it that you can pick up and show off to your friends.

ThrombosisJones

"As a big thank you to Spore fans and to celebrate the release of Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, which ships to retailers today, gamers who download and install Patch 3 will be rewarded with 24 brand spanking-new and exclusive exoskeleton limbs for the Creature Creator!

To get the patch, launch the EA Download Manager to download and install it. If you didn't install the EADM when you installed Spore, you can get it from: http://files.ea.com/downloads/eacore/eadm-installer.exe

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chautemoc

"The wait is almost over! Electronic Arts Inc. and Maxis today announced that Spore(TM), the most anticipated video game of the year from the creator of The Sims(TM), has gone gold and will be available for the Mac and PC at retailers September 5 in Europe and September 7 in North America and Asia Pacific."

capin131 via www.endsights.com »

For those of you who are absolutely hyped about Will Wright's (SimCity, The Sims, SimAnt) latest creation, Spore; like myself. We have a release date and a price! Spore fans rejoice, we're one step closer to the full game.

The Creature Creator will only be a demo of what you'll find in the full game. However, creations are limitless as per your creativity. The release date for the demo will be targeted for a June 17th release at a price of $9.99 USD. "Pay for a demo?!" you say, however ple...

tekmosis

SPORE, the epic cell to empire civilization building game will be arriving in stores the weekend of September 7th. SPORE starts off with the player creating a single-celled organism and eventually that will evolve into a full creature whose race's end-game is the colonization of the galaxy.

JelalTrueshot via www.gamingshogun.com »