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Spore is six months away News

PC News by Tom Bramwell

25 October, 2007

Will Wright has said that Spore is about six months away from release on PC, suggesting that Maxis' ambitious life sim is on track to launch in line with publisher Electronic Arts' most recent estimate of early fiscal 2009.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live in comments reported the day after he collected his BAFTA Fellowship Award for a lifetime of being wicked, Wright said that the game would be "roughly available in six months time", and is currently undergoing "extensive testing".

Spore, which we previewed at Games Convention, sees players design and then nurture their own life-forms through various stages of evolution, beginning at the very origins of life and eventually journeying across space. Speaking at the Leipzig trade show in August, Maxis' Patrick Buechener hinted that the developer's attention would turn to console ports once the long-awaited PC version is released.

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bushwod
25/10/07 @ 08:54
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So, we'll se it on Xbox in about a year then?

Sigh...
asharkman
25/10/07 @ 09:01
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i would have thought 6 months from now would put it in an early 2008 release slot?
Maybe my calander is wrong though...
Yeevle
25/10/07 @ 09:06
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2009?

Teach me not to read proper. Durr.
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skillian
25/10/07 @ 09:15
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Unsure about Spore.

The idea is good and it looks like it might be a great technical achievement, but whether it'll actually be fun to play is something I'm not convinced of yet.
fattulip
25/10/07 @ 09:23
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This is one of those games I was really excited about. The more i've heard about it (and the screenshots I've seen) have dampened that excitment. I reckon it might all be hot air, I hope to be proven wrong.
hjarg
25/10/07 @ 09:58
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Fiscal year 2009. Accountants use different calendars, y'know. Beginning of fiscal year 2009 means actually end of first/beginning of second quarter for us normal people.
Razz
25/10/07 @ 09:58
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Great! Perhaps they can use the time to actually make a fun game out of it! ^_^
McLovin85
25/10/07 @ 10:00
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it said EA's fiscal year of 2009. company's financial department work in fiscal years so EA's probably starts in April and finishes in March the following year. therefore right now they are in fiscal year 2008.

(at least that is what i think, called their fiscal year 2009 only 4 months into 2008 seems a bit weird but i reckon it's probably right)
Nithron
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Fattulip: In general, the percentage of hot air a game is constituted of, is directly proportional to the amount of hype surrounding it.

So no, you probably wont be proven wrong, even if all the reviewers say otherwise.
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I predict no more than 7/10.

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