Clarification: YouTube a part of Spore

By Robert Purchese Published 18 February, 2008

Integrated not associated, says Maxis.

Maxis has confirmed to Eurogamer that YouTube will form an integral part of Spore.

"YouTube will be integrated in the game - so you can film your creature dancing, for example, and export it to YouTube," the developer told us.

It clears up some confusion left by Maxis last week: some felt it was simply mentioned as an example of a place to upload your videos rather than being directly integrated in the game.

God news, then (to steal Tom's phrase). Unfortunately no further details were mentioned.

Spore was officially given a 5th September PC release date last week, which is two days earlier than the US will get it.

We published our first impressions of Spore to celebrate. You can read them if you like.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • McBradders #1 4 years ago

    I hope they can do this for Skate 2, the first one's integration of uploading video was great but I could never get my EA ID to work so I could share them.

    And there were acheivements attached in getting views and ratings >_

  • monkie_king #2 4 years ago

    "You can film your creature dancing, for example, and export it to YouTube" - because there are so many people who will want to watch a video of some creatures dancing in a computer game. Killer feature!

    I can't help thinking that the Sims was so wildly successful that Wright has been given too do whatever he want, and is just indulging every whim that enters his mind. This is more the kind of thing you expect to find Molyneux bleating about in the pages of Edge.

  • Krun #3 4 years ago

    You can't compair Wright to Molyneux. Wright hardly tells you anything, and only does when he's actually made it work. Molynex will promise you things his team didn't even know he wanted. Sure both are ambitious and both try to make something new. Its just when Wright opens his mouth he tends to leave his feet on the floor, instead of thrusting them into his mouth like Molyneux does..

  • DonnieDarko333 #4 4 years ago

    Film your creature dancing?! Oh my god!

  • JohnnyWashnGo #5 4 years ago

    YouTube - You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany.

  • Nylkran #6 4 years ago

    "YouTube - You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany. "

    QFT.

    Spore was looking interesting until this sort of crap was mentioned.

  • Rirekon #7 4 years ago

    "because there are so many people who will want to watch a video of some creatures dancing in a computer game. Killer feature! "

    Have you seen how many World of Warcraft vids of precisely this are on YouTube?

  • convercide #8 4 years ago

    s'poor.

  • Saladin #9 4 years ago

    If you don't like a feature, don't use it. Simple as that.

  • convercide #10 4 years ago

    I was just trying to crack a Spore joke. :(

  • skillian #11 4 years ago

    ^ It was actually pretty funny.

  • dsmx #12 4 years ago

    I had a brainwave for a creature last night, my first creation will be a nation of max's from sam and max.
    Edited by 1 at 18/02/08 @ 12:54

  • Razorus #13 4 years ago

    "YouTube - You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany."

    Funniest thing I've read all day. Thank you!