Spore About Six Months Away

SimCity creator and all-around genius Will Wright recently publicly stated that Spore is about six months away. Whether that's six months from completion or release isn't said. CVG has his comments from a recent interview with Radio 5 Live: "Spore's an ambitious game - which he admits - that's essentially a life sim. Players start off as a single-cell organism and then create their species at every stage of its evolution - from its first steps on land through to tribes then a culture and then finally it's off to explore the galaxy. 'We've had to do a lot of testing to make sure that the game is accessible by a wide group of people', Wright went on to explain. 'I want the people who have played The Sims to be able to play Spore - I don't want it to be some thing just hardcore gamers play.'"

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[TheThiefMaster]

Just like there isn't anything more in this post than in the subject :)

6 Months

[Taimat]

Right After Duke Nukem Forever - which will be released in 5 Months....

Re:6 Months

[Jarjarthejedi]

And just before Nuclear Fusion, approximately 7 month away. Don't forget the flying cars coming in 8 months.

I hereby predict and welcome our '6 Month's later' Overlords will arrive in approximately 1 years time, if we're lucky, in Soviet Russia.

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[IthnkImParanoid]

I look forward to playing Spore on my fusion-powered computer (running a secure Windows OS) in the passenger seat of my robot controlled fuel cell powered flying car while listening to the inaugural address of president Kucinich.

Everyone knows DNF will be exclusively released for the Phantom.

Re:6 Months

[LiquidCoooled]

We need to get Jack Bauer involved (when he is not in prison).
Whenever he is around everything seems to get done "within the hour"

Re:6 Months

[jnaujok]

Don't be ridiculous. Kucinich will never win...

Re:6 Months

[scibtag]

And right when the Iraq War is scheduled to end as well. Maybe they're just waiting for the troops to get home so they don't feel left out.

Re:6 Months

[IthnkImParanoid]

You can't just carry around a fusion reactor in your pocket, silly...at least not for the next few years. The fuel cell is for portable energy storage, not energy generation.

As far as the android girlfriend goes, I think I'll wait until the shapechanging gel models come out. One little software glitch and you're making out with the business end of an industrial can opener.

Re:6 Months

[C0rinthian]

Linux-powered android girlfriend...

So kinda like a virgin. You know she's safe and clean, but the experience is going to be clunky and uncomfortable.

(I kid, I kid)

Re:6 Months

[LingNoi]

You can modify her to do anything you want. ;)

Re:6 Months

[Alsee]

And 20 minutes later she has you modified to do anything she wants.

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[njfuzzy]

Perfect for *my* Birthday. Which just goes to show that it all works out in the end.

you might still get it

[jimstapleton]

after all...

Spore About Six Months Away

Has been true for any given day of the past two years! Once a year, it will be ready in time for your birthday.

Re:you might still get it

[Skevin]

Actually, they were able to cut the development time short by changing the final goal of the game.

Instead of trying to evolve single-celled life into a viable space-faring race to do battle with each other, your new goal is to evolve single-celled life into viable space-faring ravenous aliens to be the bad guys in Duke Nukem Forever.

Solomon

Sounds like EA, Will Wright

[fistfullast33l]

and the Iraq War proponents have both started converting time to Friedman Units.

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[steveo777]

It's okay. If you live long enough, you'll probably have another birthday. For more information.

Urination (Not OT)

[Anti_Climax]

Am I the only one that can't hear about spore without thinking of this Penny-Arcade comic?

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[Chris Burke]

Maybe he's a Cauliflower, you insensitive clod!

In other news...

[Wiseman1024]

The first half 2008 will be full of awesome releases. Spore will rival with Duke Nukem Forever, Perl 6 and bytecode compiled Ruby, and it'll be the year of the Linux desktop! On top of that, we'll have about a hundred amazing new storage and display technologies we were reading about weekly in Slashdot.