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Gamespot features an article (with new video) on their interview with a couple Darkspore delevopers. The said developers say on Facebook:

<...> The team did such a great job introducing the world to our baby game at Comicon and Gamespot got a surprisingly accurate article out within an hour!

If you love videos, check out the HD version of the official trailer and a video of the announcement by Lucy Bradshaw and Mike Perry, which includes some gameplay scenes.

BTW, I’ll be back from holidays on Saturday, to hopefully get you much more of the news that floats around the ‘net.

Darkspore has its own site: http://www.darkspore.com/. It comes complete with a play teaser, check it out!

Today EA released the first info about Darkspore, a few days earlier than expected.

Gamasutra says:

The game is a notable departure for Maxis, which made its name under the EA umbrella with systems-based simulation games like SimCity and The Sims. Darkspore is due in February 2011 for PC. It is the first major new title announcement for the studio since the departure of SimCity and The Sims creator Will Wright.

“Darkspore is its own fully robust PC action RPG, and it’s set in an action sci-fi world. It’s not an extension of Spore, but it was inspired by and shares some of the innovative technology we created for Spore,” said Lucy Bradshaw, general manager of Maxis.

More info an pictures can be found at Wired.

Gamasutra reports that Spore’s development group Maxis will announce a new Spore game soon. It is to be a Sci-fi action RPG, “based on Spore’s DNA”. More details will be announced during Comic Con, on July 24th. I’ll try to keep you posted, but I am on holiday at the moment, so my internet access is intermittent for the next two and a half weeks.

Remains of a previously unknown type of Sperm Whale is found in Peru. The current day Sperm Whales hunt squid and eat them but sucking them up, They have teeth, but very small ones. These ancient whales had teeth almost 34 cm tall and very strong jaw muscles. According to the scientists this indicates that this whale probably hunted other whales.

Artist impression by LiveScience.com

The first really interesting news in coming from the E3 is the release date for Civilization 5: September 21st in the US, Sept 24th everywhere else.

You can find the official site here: http://www.civilization5.com/

Spore’s little brother on Facebook will be shut down the coming month. The announcement below doesn’t give any reason, but most probably it failed to be the money generator a la FarmVille the publisher hoped it would be.

New Cassini data of Saturns’ moon Titan shows that hydrogen molecules are flowing down through Titan’s atmosphere and disappearing at the surface. I addition to this Titans’ surface lacks of acetylene. Both these findings suggests complex chemical processes. The kind of processes that life excels in.

Of course its too soon to immediately conclude that there *is* life on Titan, but it is worth following. All the more because it would be really alien in that it is based on methane rather than water.

Read more about the exact findings at NASA.