Spore Begins With A Big Bang

[Josh]

SPORE has sold through more than one million copies at retail worldwide on the PC, Mac and Nintendo DS, since shipping worldwide on September 7.

SPORE, developed by Electronic Arts' Maxis Studio, is also available on mobile phones including the iPhone. To date, gamers have used the creativity tools in SPORE to populate the universe with more than 25 million creatures, vehicles and buildings available to view in the Sporepedia at www.spore.com/sporepedia.

Spore has been well received by game critics -- with a Metacritic index of: 85.

"We're humbled by how quickly the community has taken to the creativity tools in SPORE," said Lucy Bradshaw, VP of Maxis and SPORE's exec producer. "It's amazing to see the sheer imagination represented in the hundreds of thousands of creatures, vehicles and buildings that have been uploaded around the clock since launch."

SPORE, rated E10+, gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe filled with creations made by other gamers. SPORE gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even spaceships.

To download a free trial of the SPORE CREATURE CREATOR, visit [url=\"http://www.spore.com/\"]http://www.spore.com/[/url]

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[Jim]

wow, this game got really big pretty fast.

[Josh]

I can believe it -- the game is really solid. I love it!