The Sporepedia sharing function over at the official site has been closed since it was discovered that the Creature Creator trail version was leaked on to various shady sites. It will be re-opened again June 18. Also for those of you who has pre-ordered CC through direct download at the EA store you’ll have to wait one more day before getting it. Why? We don’t know.

Kotaku reports that a group of around 50 celebrities will compete against eachother using the CC creating the coolest creature possible. The winner will recieve 15 grand to donate to their favourite charity. Notables include Carlos Santana, Ellijah Wood and Bijou Phillips.

This year’s E3 kicks off in just a little more than a month from now - July 17, and the list of games attending grows steadily stronger. Among them we find Spore, but as it seems only for PC. So those wanting to hear more of possible ports will have to wait a bit longer. Other notables include Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (PC, X360), Crysis Warhead (PC) and Fallout 3 (PC, PS3, X360).

Community Manager MaxisCactus sends word:

Hi Spore Fan,

As we head into the launch of the Creature Creator, I wanted to let you know of a few deals some retailers have with the Creature Creator:

- Amazon: Purchase the Creature Creator and get $5 off Spore

- Target: Purchase the Creature Creator in store and get $5 off Spore

- GameStop: Get the full retail version of the Creature Creator for free when you trade in any two Wii, Xbox360 or PS3 titles (see store for details).

Just two more days now!

Along with a completely new design for the official site comes the system requirements!

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FOR WINDOWS XP
2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
512 MB RAM
A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
At least 6 GB of hard drive space

FOR WINDOWS VISTA
2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
768 MB RAM
A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
At least 6 GB of hard drive space

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:
Intel Integrated Chipset, 945GM or above.
2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent.
768 MB RAM

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MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
Intel Core Duo Processor
1024 MB RAM
ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
At least 4.7GB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for creations.

This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac).

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:
Intel Integrated Chipset GMA X3100
Dual 2.0GHz CPUs, or 1.7GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent

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Seems resonable enough. For a full game experience you’ll probably have to be a few marks over these specs presented, as in most other games.

Exclamation marks are running wild at Spore EVolve. This time we got 29 new screenshots to feast your eyes on. They show scenes from the Tribal Stage similar to the ones we saw in the video we posted the other day, but this time in widescreen format. And without movement.

No, not the once popular tattoos, but a video of the Tribal Stage in Spore!

Also, IGN got 29 new screenshots of creatures fishing, dancing and lots more. Thanks guys!