EA and Maxis to ship "Spore" in September

[Josh]

[b]Chertsey, UK - February 12, 2008 – [/b]Get ready for the next Big Bang this fall! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Maxis today announced that Spore™, the highly anticipated game from the creators of The Sims™, will be available at retailers worldwide the weekend of September 7. Spore will be available for the PC, Macintosh, Nintendo DS™, and mobile phones.

“The wait is almost over,” said Maxis Chief Designer Will Wright. “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.”

Spore gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe created by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even UFOs. Players can then seamlessly share their creations with the world or explore infinite new galaxies created by other gamers.

Consumers can visit [url=\"http://www.spore.com\"]www.spore.com[/url] to sign up for the Spore newsletter or check out all-new screenshots and video of the game. Members of the media can visit EA’s press site at [url=\"http://www.info.ea.com\"]www.info.ea.com[/url] for information about all of EA’s games.

[Jim]

Interesting that it's coming out for mobile phones as well; could be quite interesting to see the differences between say the PC version where you have lots of HD space and a phone version which has to be kept fairly small.

[Josh]

Well from what I understand the game is going to be pretty small overall since everything in it is procedural(sp) texturing