Also, don’t miss GameSpot’s wrap-up from Will Wrights on-stage appearance from E3 2008.

Both IGN and GameSpot got some juicy previews up before the start of E3. Both focus on the civilization stage and mentions things like your agenda, strategy and starting materials.

You start with a single city and a single vehicle, which you can design in the vehicle editor or download from the entire universe of Spore content, both Maxis and user made.

There’s also a new lengthy video showing stuff from all stages in the game:

In case you missed (I know I did!), here’s Spore’s official box art, and most likely the final version. Looks good!

Maxis has put up one of their prototypes used when designing Spore. This particular prototype is called ParticleMan and was used to study such gravitational dynamics as orbits, nebula formation, star formation and particle streams from sources like pulsars and black holes and simulates gravitational attraction between particles in a cloud. It features a wide arrange of controls and mechanisms you can play with.

Thanks to pictoboy for the news tip.