Current events

This article is about the community surrounding Spore, and not necessarily about the game itself.

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[edit] Spore Creature Creator available worldwide June 17

Free Demo and Complete Retail Versions Deliver Powerful Creativity Tools to Create, Play and Share

Redwood City, CA - April 25, 2008 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Maxis today announced that a free downloadable demo, and complete retail version of the Spore™ Creature Creator will be available starting June 17, 2008. The Spore Creature Creator gives Spore fans, and those who are creatively curious, the first hands-on opportunity to design their own species and share it with their friends. All creatures designed with the Spore Creature Creator can be imported into the full retail version of Spore for PC and Mac when it launches on September 5, 2008 in Europe and September 7, 2008 in North America.

Source: http://www.spore.com/press_042508.php

[edit] Spore Release Date Finally Announced!

Electronic Arts has just put out a press release on the release of Spore. EA states that the game:

"will be available at retailers worldwide the weekend of September 7"

Whether this means you will be able to pick up your copy Saturday, September 6th, or have to wait until Monday the 8th is probably up to your local retailer.

EA goes on to confirm what we already knew about platforms: Spore will be available for the PC, Macintosh, Nintendo DS, and mobile phones.

Will Wright is excited, saying:

"The wait is almost over. We’re in our final stages of testing and polish with Spore, and the team at Maxis can’t wait to see the cosmos of content created by the community later this year."

So: finally a confirmed date to put on your calendars!

UPDATE: Maxis put a short Spore video on the official Spore site to celebrate the announcement, check it out!

[edit] Upcoming Events

Spore was not shown at E3 2007 but did Appear at Leipzig in Germany on the 23rd of August.

The most recent event was GDC 2007

Will Wright will be giving the keynote at SXSW,March 13th, talking about Spore.

[edit] See Also

• GameSpot Official Trailer for Spore.
• You Tube Spore's E3 2006 demo movie (B-Roll).
• 2005 GDC Presentation - Video of Will's presentation at GDC.
• Gaming Steve Interview with Will Wright 2005
• Wired 14.04 Spore article
• Computer Gaming World June 2006 article

[edit] External links

• Official website - Official website of Spore