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techradar.com - 5/4/2009

More species in Spore than on Earth

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Reality just took a back seat to the gaming world, with user-generated species in Spore outnumbering the variety of living creatures on Earth for the first time. Maxis, the Electronic Arts studio, announced today that over 100 million different species had been uploaded since it released the ...

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offworld.com - 5/4/2009

SporeBrowser: the third party, API-driven iPhone Spore-pedia

— offworld.com — sporebrowser.jpg The latest best thing to come from Maxis opening its Spore API ? Spencer Alves has put together the SporeBrowser : a free, open-source iPhone app that does nothing more or less than let you browse the game's creature creations on the ... (more) SporeBrowser: the third party, API-driven iPhone Spore-pedia

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