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Spore has announced something which every hardcore gamer has been waiting for… a new expansion pack that adds new functionality to Spore. Missions, mini-games and what-not are all discussed in today’s episode of SporeCast.

• Scientists Say Spore Fails its Biology Exam
• Spore Gets an ‘F’ from Scientists
• EA Reveals New Space Expansion for Spore, Confirms Creepy and Cute Pack
• Cute and Creepy Announced
• First Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack Screenshots are Creepy and Cute
• Spore Patch 2
• Cubic Spore Planets!
• SporeCast Contest: Win a Cute and Creepy Parts Pack
• We’re Auditioning for a Third Host

 

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The repository of Spore knowledge, Alehkhs, and Spore guru, Kym Huynh, unite to do battle against the hordes of Spore news this week; handsome style. Join them as they go forth and ponder the age old question: What kind of Spore expansion packs will there be in the future?

• Spore Cute and Creepy Parts Pack
• We’re giving away a free expansion pack to one lucky listener!
• Emotional Account: Spore
• ‘Spore was made for casual gamers’
• Spore: State of the Galaxy Interview
• Whack-A-Mole by Kilo_II
• EA DRM can’t accomplish job one: 500K Spore torrents so far
• Center of the Galaxy and Power of the Gods

 

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What a week it has been in Spore with the relaxation of Spore’s highly controversial DRM policies. Coupled with a big revelation about Spore’s haters and all those anti-Spore websites and how a lot of them are shock-horror pranks by an underground secret society, tune in for the latest reviews on Spore mods and all the commentary on this week’s headlines.

• EA Makes Changes To Spore DRM
• EA to Allow De-Authorizing a Machine?
• Spore Patched to 1.01.0000
• Spore Asymmetry Modification!
• Zounds YRM: Christian Gaming Zone
• Anti Spore

 

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DRM (digital rights management) seems to be the acronym on everyone’s lips this week as outrage is expressed left, right and center on the controversial DRM inclusion in the latest game by Will Wright - Spore. Will DRM destroy the very thing it was designed to protect? Join Kym Huynh and Alehkhs this week to find out what they think.

• Spore massively pirated despite DRM
• Spore DRM could kill PC gaming
• Opinion: Spore Origins and the iPhone’s growing domination of handheld gaming
• Spore breaks into Euro charts
• Spore becoming a popular BitTorrent pirate game
• Will Wright talks about Spore. . .again
• Spore Amazon.com reviews vanish, then reappear; EA talks about DRM
• More Spore account issues surface
• Spore Modification to reduce Attack Rate
• Copy Protection

 

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Spore has been released everyone your dynamic duo - Kym and Alehkhs - return to give you their opinions on the game so far after many sleepless nights playing and previewing it. Tune in this week to hear the many signs that were sent to Kym that he should not play Spore, and also some possible reasons as to why Spore is rated so low on Amazon.

• Kym and Alehkhs reveal what they think about Spore.
• Game bugs galore.
• Intelligence and the evolution of species.
• DRM haters slam Spore in Amazon reviews.
• Amazon Reviews Give Spore 1 Out of 5 Stars
• Will Wright not upset by Spore review scores.

 

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Alehkhs and Kym Huynh are joined by special guest host Erich Jurgens, writer at DigitalBattle, to have have a round-table discussion on the slew of Spore-related news released this week from Spore being available for pre-download to a lucky Australian who obtained a copy of Spore before its release date. Join us in the final episode before Spore is officially released world-wide for the next time you hear us, we’ll all sound like zombies due to lack of sleep. (Playing Spore too much you see!)

• Spore PC Pre-Loads Now Downloadable
• Let the Spore Billboards Begin!
• Spore Invades Harvard Square Red Line T Stop Station
• Spore Available on iPod Classic
• Spore the Movie
• Get Spore Signed by Will Wright and a Free Spore Tee
• Metacritic Rates Spore 93.6/100
• Australian Grabs Spore Early

 

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Kym and Alehkhs reunite after a brief hiatus (Alehkhs was in hospital you see) to bring you the latest scoop on Spore and everything in between right before its release in just under two weeks!

• Spore conventions: What to expect.
• More Spore monsters than Earth species.
• Nintendo DS version of Spore.
• Spore going gold.
• Spore given a 9/10.
• Interesting expansion ideas.
• Spore television show?
• Secret Spore Easter egg.
• Militant atheists attack Spore.
• Don’t forget The Sims Online.

 

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With the recent leak of game details for the upcoming Will Wright game, Spore, it was only reasonable that your hosts Kym Huynh and Alehkhs dedicated this episode to the day that will live forever in infamy as the “Text Dump Bonanza”. Join us as we reveal top secret details and discuss all the latest and greatest in Spore related news.

• Intelligent Design in Spore
• Penis Monsters
• Spore Text Dump and more Spore Text Dumps
• Spore: It’s a game after all but maybe even more
• Spore Bridging the Gap Between Gamers and Non-Gamers
• Help file for full game extracted
• Spore Creature Creator Beats The Sims 2 and World of Warcraft
• Moving on from Penis Monsters
• No Plants in the Official Release of Spore

 

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Join Kym Huynh, Joe Toomey and Alehkhs as we introduce to everyone the world’s first Spore podcast.

• Creature Creator at Spore
• A brief overview of the game
• Bringing together all the features of the best games
• Content Sharing
• Can the content be filtered?
• Spore gets 130,000 creations in the first day
• The Spore release date revealed
• A little bit about Will Wright
• Adult themed creatures at Spore
• Spore Galactic Edition announced
• Spore Expansion Packs
• Procedural Animation Differences
• Is there too much hype for Spore?
• Syncing content in Spore?
• The Unique Multiplayer Concept
• Back to the Spore hype!
• Penis Monsters
• People getting suspended for penis monsters and bitchin’-a-saurs
• User generated content the new sweatshop of the 21st century?
• The war on user generated content
• Public Service Announcement: Naming an entire race of creatures “Bobby” is bad!

 

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