
In each case, fans can see the celebrity's creation, how many times others have looked at it (on YouTube, where they can rate it), and how many people have "liked" it. It was made by online TV show personality Philip DeFranco.Īmong the well-known and maybe not quite so well-known among the group recruited by EA are Spider Man and X-Men co-creator Stan Lee "I Kissed a Girl" pop star Katy Perry Carlos Santana baseball pitcher Curt Schilling actor Elijah Wood Digg founder Kevin Rose TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington Spore creator Will Wright himself video game blog Kotaku editor Brian Crecente film director David Lynch Virgin Group mogul Richard Branson celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse Laughing Squid photographer and blogger Scott Beale Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, and many others. This creature-and a couple of little versions of itself-is the most viewed of the dozens created in the promotion. In less than a week, Electronic Arts' hotly anticipated evolution game will launch, most likely to large initial sales and significant excitement.īut since June, fans of the game-which was first announced and has been the talk of the video games industry since 2005-have been able to play with the Spore Creature Creator, a free, downloadable editor, that allows anyone to craft their own creature and upload it to what is known as Sporepedia, a vast, sharable, database of millions of other people's creations.Īnd on Tuesday, EA said that it had lured dozens of "creative celebrities" into making creatures, each of which is now viewable online in a bit of a fan-voting popularity contest. It seems everyone is getting in on the Spore fun these days.


This 'Spore' creature, created by comic book legend Stan Lee, is one of dozens made by 'creative celebrities,' in a promotion the video game publisher announced Tuesday.
