"The Spore franchise continues to evolve as Maxis, an Electronic Arts studio, today revealed details about Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena – two games built from the ground up exclusively for the Wii and Nintendo DS platforms. Building on the franchise’s core tenets of creativity, exploration and adventure, Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena will immerse Nintendo fans into all-new experiences when the games launch this year."

A new evolution-type animal has been born called the Machinatons in Spore. Machinima.com explores the realms of these species and gives you the whole run-down on them, noting that they have the ability to fly.

It's that time of the week again, this time with Yahtzee taking on Spore. Will Spore be an affront to his Christian beliefs or will it end up being just another run of the mill generic ?

Machinima.com has uploaded a video that shares all their knowledge about the Machinamals - a group of species who have evolved from the Machina type - in Spore. They tell us about their fighting ways, how quick they grow up, and a lot more!

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Is there any limit to what this game can do? The only limit truly is your imagination and skills with a mouse. A look at some of the enemies in Half-Life - including the Strider, Antlion, Hunter, Honudeye, Bullsquid, and of course - the Headcrab.

A user on YouTube, oxyborb, has made Petey Piranha using the Spore Creature Creator. Petey has been Mario's enemy in some games and is on the roster for Mario Super Sluggers.

Live Streaming Video of Spore being played. You can literally do anything, create anything in a total free roaming environment. If you for some reason were EVER on the fence about Spore - this should seal the deal.

Following the announcement of a Macintosh release of Spore, EA and Apple have unveiled Spore for the iPhone platform. A short demonstration of what the final product could look like was shown at yesterday's iPhone Software Roadmap Event in Cupertino, California.

Spore is set to be released this September via the iPhone App Store. Pricing details have yet to be revealed.

In a whopping 34min long user video; Will Wright demos Spore, at NASA. Unfortunately, it's a shaky cam that cuts out periodically, so, the whole demonstration was really longer than 34mins. Will answers some audience questions as well that give us a bit more information on the game.