The official site has changed the homepage of the official Sporepedia a few days ago. The 5 most popular new creatures and 5 other featured creations are shown directly on the homepage, together with a "Contests and Challenges" block. Furthermore browsing through Sporepedia has been improved, allowing for more precize filters and sorting methods. Check out the Sporepedia for more.

I've been geeking out lately with Doctor Who and Torchwood. I didn't have inspiration to create items in Spore for a long time. But yesterday after watching Doctor Who, I finally got back into Spore and created TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space) as a space ship and as a city hall for my first game since I installed Galactic Adventures. Today I continued making items for my series. A TARDIS factory, house and entertainment building have now been completed and added to my new TARDIS Sporecast, click here to view it!

With the upcoming expansion Spore Galactic Adventures in sight, the Profile pages are renewed. New site features, a new look and better accessible.

The standard Spore Gamer has some more extra features on the first tab, Spore. So there is a new menu with Tools, where you can find your own Spore widget, an Aquarium (didn't test it), on the Tools page there are more cool apps to find.

A total new issue is created to access your own Galactic Adventures progress by clicking on the tab Spore Galactic Adventures, where you can find your Sporepoints. Sporepoints are earned when you create, share, and play adventures and also when your creations are played and rated. The more Sporepoints you earn, the more bragging rights you have!
The new tab shows you more about your Galactic achievements, if you have this expansion ofcourse.

Strange enough, the new look is only created on the USA Spore site, the official home of Spore. It's the main profile I normally use, because the latest news about Spore is found there too. It looks nice, it's very usable and easy to use.

Sporepedia reached 100 million creations! Woot! The creator of the 100 millionth creation may receive a NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT graphics card, Spore and the upcoming expansion pack Spore Galactic Adventures (Official Rules: http://www.spore.com/comm/contests/contestrules/hundredmillionrules). The 100Millionth creation and the entire collection of player-generated content can be seen at the Sporepedia. Read the rest of the press release below.

Here's a press release about:

• Sporepedia reaching over 65 million uploaded creations.
• Spore Galactic Adventures PC expansion pack.
• Spore Creature Keeper PC game for the little ones.
• Spore Hero for Nintendo Wii.
• Spore Hero for Nintendo DS.

So I'd say that's worth reading

MAXIS ANNOUNCES THE "SPORE HOLIDAY CONTEST 2008" WINNER

More Than 50 Million Creations Made Since September Launch

Maxis is pleased to announce the winning creation in the Spore Holiday Contest 2008! Created by Spore fan Gryphon57, "And to All a Good Night" (pictured above), is a winter-y neighborhood vignette with brightly-lit, snow-covered houses, tall fir trees and a sled – all of which were made in the Spore "Building Creator." With more than 5,000 entries, three runner-up creations were also chosen, including "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa," "Christmas Morning at the Claus" and "December 26th." Check out the runner-up creations below and in the Sporepedia™ at www.spore.com.

These holiday creations make up just some of the now more than 50 million Spore spaceships, vehicles, creatures, ships and buildings that have been created and uploaded on Sporepedia. Since the release of Spore in September, gamers and creative folks alike have been drawn to the game's easy-to-use customization tools that allow players to create, play and share with their friends.

"Fifty million creations made is an incredible milestone that we couldn't have achieved without our fans and community," said Lucy Bradshaw, executive producer of Spore. "It's so great to see hard core fans and casual players embracing the game's easy-to-use tools to re-create some of the most nostalgic holiday scenes of the season. Fans have shown such tremendous imagination and creativity – we can't wait to see the next 50 million!"

Our Dutch community manager asked me to promote the Hyves and Netlog Spore gadgets on my sites. I don't think people from outside the Benelux even know these sites, but I wanted to share this news anyway.

The difference between Hyves and Netlog is that Hyves is primarily used by Dutch people and Netlog is mainly used by Belgian people. Although you can register on both.

Dutch celebrities Micha Klein and Jean-Marc van Tol have designed a creature exclusively for Spore.

Computer Art- and Veejay Pioneer and Fokke & Sukke cartoonist bring creativity to life with EA's newest game Spore.

You can view Micha Klein's and Jean-Marc van Tol's creations online.

Micha Klein made "Flower Child" which you can view on YouTube
Jean-Marc van Tol made "Snorvogel", "Tsriop" and "Trompetier". All his creatures can be viewed on Flickr.

I haven't translated the Dutch press release, as I didn't think it would be interesting to any of our foreign readers. But I included in in the Read More section anyway in case you feel like translating it through Google or something.

MORE THAN ONE MILLION WILD AND WONDERFUL LIFE FORMS CREATED USING THE SPORE CREATURE CREATOR IN ONE WEEK

Players Test the Limits of Their Imagination, Creating Creatures Ranging from the Realistic to the Fantastic

Read the press release below by clicking on Read More