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The Big Round-up: Wednesday, June 18

by Dan O'Halloran Jun 18th 2008 @ 12:00PM

Your daily wrap-up of the hottest stories in PC gaming in the last 24 hours.

	Spore Creature Creator demo now available on Big Download It's one of the most anticipated PC game launches of 2008 (some might say it's one of the biggest of all time) and now we can finally give you a tiny taste of it. Electronic Arts' Maxis studio has released the Spore Creature Creator, a stand alone editor that players can use now to make creatures that can later be imported into the full Spore game when it is released on September 7.
	Spore Creature Creator Giveaway Big Download wants to see intelligent design in action. So, we're kicking off a two week giveaway contest to see what crazy creatures grow and evolve. Simply download the Spore Creature Creator and let your imagination run wild. Take a screenshot of your best creature and email it to contests@bigdownload.com. Our judges will pick the top ten creatures and let you vote for the winners.
	A brief chat with Maxis' Lucy Bradshaw on Spore Creature Creator In 2005, in what was supposed to be an interesting but un-extraordinary panel at the Game Developers Conference, Will Wright, the near-legendary creator of Sim City and The Sims titles, revealed to a shocked audience his next full blown creation in playable form. That creation was Spore, a kind of evolution sim game where players could help make a complete space-faring civilization out of a single cell organism.