Had a little Minecraft challenge tonight with Oviraptor. This was a scavenger hunt to find as many items as we could in 10 mins. I didn’t fare so well. We were also testing out a video capture program.

I’ve started playing Spore again in the last few days. Some new creations using Cute and Creepy plus I attempted a tribe game on hard. Let’s just say I died over and over and over. I installed the game on my laptop and forgot to transfer the game files so it thinks I’m new and it telling me I get achievements again. I couldn’t jump to tribe stage without playing cell and creature stage first so it was rather annoying. Check out my new creations if you like: My Spore Page.

A mystery about what Robot Chicken and the game of Spore have in common was finally revealed today. It seems that the Robot Chicken guys are Spore fans and helped write some adventures for the new expansion pack called Spore Galactic Adventures. These will be available for download on June 23rd. Kudos to Sporeprograms for finding the press release (after the jump). I got GA pre-ordered now. Sounds exciting.

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Game launches on June 2, 2009.

I miss my sims, I need to go play Sims2 one more time.

Win an NVIDIA graphics card.

Get your best adventure ideas on paper and enter our Spore Galactic Adventures Storyboard Contest! The creator of the best storyboard will receive an NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 260 Graphics Card along with a 3D printed Spore creature sculpture. The Maxis team will also create the winning storyboard as a mission! May the most awesome storyboard win!

Ever since the last update, my Left 4 Dead game is crashing. The game suddenly freezes and the sound starts looping and the screen turns black. In reading the steam forum, it seems that a lot of people are having the same issue. No one knows for sure what the problem is and how to fix it and no word from Valve yet on what to do. I have an NVIDIA 8800 GTS with Windows Vista 32 and it’s worked fine with this game before as well as other games. In taking off the side panel, the card seems really hot. This happens after playing for about 30 mins. There is an error message about the video card recovering from a fatal crash.

Last night I was within minutes of obtaining a gold medal when my video card crapped out. Talk about being disappointed. The other members of my team made the gold medal and I was left looking at a black screen and screaming at my computer. If I find a fix for this, I’ll post it. If you know of a fix, please share with me. For now, here is a thread where other people have reported their issues. Crash!

Orange Box on sale – 66% off this weekend. If you don’t have it, buy it now. This is a great deal.

The weekend special on Steam is The Orange Box, an award-winning collection of Valve titles including Portal, Team Fortress 2, and the Half-Life 2 family of games. For this weekend only, The Orange Box is being offered at 66% off its regular price to customers worldwide. In the USA for example, the 66% discount means all five games included in Orange are just $9.99. Visit www.steamgames.com for more information.

Over the last year, ever since the Creature Creator was released in June 2008, there has been some amazing creations created. In a quest to find the best of these 94,000,000 creations, Sporedum and Sporeprograms have teamed together to find the best creations, in the Uber Creation Conest! There are 4 categories for creations to enter: Creatures, Buildings, Vehicles and Spaceships.

And guess what! You get to decide who wins!

How will this work?

Everyone submits creations (you can only submit one of your own), and then our judges (who can’t enter) will sort through the masses of creations to decide on the best 10, then we will post them all over at sporedum and sporeprograms and then you decide on the one to win!

The judges currently include: Grimbot, Virakotxa, smallboy1995, beta_psi and techno605

To find all the rules and details on how to enter, head over to Sporedum!

Peggle and Peggle nights are 50% on Steam this weekend. Both games for $9.98. It’s a good deal and the games are fun and addicting.

Maxis has posted a Spore Galactic Fansite kit for download. Inside you’ll find desktop backgrounds, banners, a poster and more!

http://www.spore.com/comm/fansitekit2

Also, the number of creations uploaded to Sporepedia is ever growing and to celebrate the lucky creator who bumps up the creation count to 100 million will get some cool prizes.

Check out all the details on our 100 Millionth Creation promotion here:

http://www.spore.com/comm/contests