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In perhaps their biggest game publisher deal yet, Valve has announced secured the rights to distribute a number of PC game titles from Electronic Arts via their Steam service. EA has previously handled downloadable PC game titles via their own EA Downloader service but now Spore, Spore Creepy and Cute Parts Pack, Warhammer Online, Mass Effect, FIFA Manager 09, and Need For Speed Undercover are now all available to purchase and download via Steam (sorry, rest of the world, this is for North America only).

In addition to those games, EA will also offer Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Dead Space and the upcoming PC port of Mirror's Edge via Steam in the near future. When contacted by Big Download, an EA spokesperson would not comment if any of EA's older PC games might find their way onto Steam as well. If you have been wanting to buy EA games but have been avoiding purchasing them because of EA's use of DRM in their recent titles, a message of Valve's Steam forums states that the EA games on Steam do not use third party DRM or SecuROM set-up, saying, " the only DRM it uses is Steam itself."

As promised last week, Electronic Arts has released a new patch for their best selling alien evolution sim Spore (the patch is only available via automatic in-game downloads or through the EA Autodownloader program). In addition to fixing some bugs the patch also adds 24 new and free creature limbs that players can use in their creature editor to customize their creations some more.

You can see what the new free limbs look like in the above image. Of course you can also make the lead and actually buy the Spore Creepy and Cute Parts Pack which ships out this week in stores. This first Spore commercial expansion adds even more creature parts for use in the editor.

If you though you had to pay money to get new creature parts for EA's alien evolution sim game Spore, think again. According to the email-sent Spore newsletter, the next patch for the game will have some free content, "Patch 3 is coming soon - make sure to download it when it arrives. We're happy to include 24 free new limbs for your SPORE creatures - dial up your creepiness with insectoid and exoskeleton legs."

Meanwhile the first paid expansion for the game, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, is due out next week for $19.99. EA has a released a YouTube-exclusive trailer showing off some of the new content in the expansion.

As we get closer to Halloween we think about things that go bump in the night. Electronic Arts wants us to apparently think the same way as new screenshots from the upcoming Spore Creepy and Cute expansion pack are just a tad on the creepy side.

While this first commercial expansion to the alien evolution sim is "merely" for the creature editor portion of the game, EA has already announced plans for a major gameplay expansion in spring 2009 that will add planet landing and missions to its Space stage. It will also have an Adventure editor for people who want to make and share their own missions with others. In the meantime you are advised to be creepy.

Spore continues to do well for Electronic Arts and in November we will see if that success extends to a creature parts expansion pack. The publisher just released the first screenshots showing off some of the parts of the Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack which we have added to our overall Spore screenshot gallery.

While this first commercial expansion to the alien evolution sim is "merely" for the creature editor portion of the game, EA has already announced plans for a major gameplay expansion in spring 2009 that will add planet landing and missions to its Space stage. It will also have an Adventure editor for people who want to make and share their own missions with others. Until then you will have to make due with creepy and cute. Enjoy.

Download the Spore Creature Creator demo at Big Download right now

We reported on rumors earlier this month that Electronic Arts would release a creatures parts expansion pack for their alien evolution sim Spore. Today the publisher confirmed that they would release the Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack on Nov. 18 for $19.99. The expansion will add over 100 new parts for people to make creatures in both the full game and the retail version of Spore Creature Creator. The Spore Creepy & Cute Parks Pack is already available for pre-order at the EA online store.

However, some even bigger news was revealed in the press release as EA announced plans for another Spore expansion in spring 2009. The as yet unnamed expansion will allow players in the Space stage of the game to "beam down from their spaceships to explore new planets and earn rewards for completing challenging missions." In addition the expansion will finally add something Spore players have wanted from the beginning; "A new Adventure Creator will allow players to build and share online their own custom missions, providing almost endless gameplay possibilities."