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:

The Creature Creator is insanely fun. Here’s three guys we’ve created:

Wusili

Slackeroo

JIMMY!

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!

See Senior Game Designer Alex Hutchinson of Maxis talk about the creature stage (or phase; they changed that again?), and watch woundrous creations dance, sing and interact with eachother in this brand new video!

Also, here’s four new screenshots!

Game sites are literally pumping out reviews for the soon to be released Creature Creator. IGN’s got a video review, along with Eurogamer, and GameSpy, GamesRadar and Joystiq all got regular hands-ons. The latter saying this:

There’s virtually no learning curve to the creator. It’s stupendously intuitive. Without even a shred of guidance, we were instantly resizing a colorful floating blob to form the body of our creature. This was the full version of the creator, so we had access to all of the various creature parts it ships with…

Remember that the Creature Creator will be included in the gold release of the full game, in case anyone was wondering.

The game looks more and more ready to ship - as it should. In this latest video you’ll see Will Wright talk about how science and Spore interconnects. The footage contains to much awesomeness to discuss here, so just enjoy and be amazed.

In other news the FAQ at the official site has been updated with info on the upcoming Creature Creator. Nothing new if you have been following the news.

The cell phase is looking really cool, as shown in ten new screenshots and this video:

The official site has been updated with two new videos - the second part of studio stories and some footage from Yuri’s Night.

They’ve also updated the FAQ with a few answers to Creature Creator questions. Nothing new if you are up-to-date with the latest going-ons.