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SimCity creator Will Wright is creating his most ambitious simulation ever: one for the entire universe.

Genre: Strategy
Expected release date: 09/07/2008
Published by: Electronic Arts
Developed by: Maxis
Multiplayer Modes:

Offline

1 player SOLO

Designer: Will Wright

Latest Stories

Spore Creature Creator launching June 17

Demo and retail version of the pre-Spore experience dated

PC News - Apr 25, 2008

Spore Creature Creator out June

Maxis spills beans, although EA UK tells us no retail release is confirmed for UK

PC News - Apr 22, 2008

Spore

Interspecies relations break down

PC Preview - Apr 7, 2008

Play Spore, Dead Space next month

EA to roll out titles at Sci-Fi-London, "most of them" playable

PC News - Mar 18, 2008

Features

2007 - The best gaming year ever

2007 hasn't just been good. It's been spectacular. Here's the year in review.

Dec 20, 2007

Pre-E3 blowout day three: PC

The biggest game show in the world is almost here. Catch up with the best of what we know

May 4, 2006

Upgrade or die

Five upcoming PC games that'll justify that upgrade

Feb 26, 2006

» All 3 Spore Features

News

Spore Creature Creator launching June 17

Demo and retail version of the pre-Spore experience dated

Apr 25, 2008

Spore Creature Creator out June

Maxis spills beans, although EA UK tells us no retail release is confirmed for UK

Apr 22, 2008

Play Spore, Dead Space next month

EA to roll out titles at Sci-Fi-London, "most of them" playable

Mar 18, 2008

EA confirms release of Spore creature tool

Separate app to let you dabble with creature creation

Feb 15, 2008

EA promises Spore before Christmas

We're very bullish, says the publisher

Feb 1, 2008

Delay looms for Spore, analyst predicts

Late 2008 release possible following underperformance of EA shares

Jan 30, 2008

2007 - The best gaming year ever

2007 hasn't just been good. It's been spectacular. Here's the year in review.

Dec 20, 2007

Will Wright: Spore "roughly" six months...

"We have the game fully playable at this point and it's in final testing," reveals...

Oct 24, 2007

Watch! Spore Leipzig Trailer

Expansive gameplay revealed really grows on us

Sep 4, 2007

New Spore video gets viral

Fresh trailer runs us through the latest game from Will Wright

Aug 22, 2007

» All 19 Spore News Stories

Previews

Spore

Interspecies relations break down

Apr 7, 2008

At each of Spore’s five stages, from the microbiotic to the intergalactic, there is an eternal choice: kill or... don’t. When you start, as a microbe with teeth, it’s kill or be vegetarian. When you evolve enough to crawl from the primordial soup to dry land, it’s kill or sing little songs to befriend things. Once your species forms a society and decides what buildings to have in its first village, it’s kill or ... » Read Full Spore preview

The never-ending game

Spore offers more than you can see in a lifetime

Feb 13, 2008

It’s been almost three years since Spore was first announced in 2005 at the Game Developer’s Conference. Since then, fans and critics have been gushing over every detail and lamenting over every delay. It’s no wonder why there’s so much hype about the latest title from Will Wright, designer of other infamous time suckers like The Sims and SimCity. Everything revealed about Spore so far reads like a bullet pointed list ... » Read Full Spore preview

Spore

A new creation myth

Jan 15, 2008

Jan 15, 2008 Playing with Spores electronic clay nearly a year ago, we were struck by just how complete the character creation tools were. Spores remit, to take a species from microbe to UFO, may be massive but back then it felt ready, and real. Stretching out flesh, bolting on limbs, arranging faces - it all worked. Then, nothing. The game went back into development. New hires (Soren Johnson, the lead designer of Civilization 4 was the last high-profile addition), and no news pointed to a ... » Read Full Spore preview

Spore - updated impressions

It's gone all Pixaresque

Oct 31, 2007

Oct 31, 2007 Knees shouldn't go at that angle. What's he thinking? How many mouths? We mean, surely one is enough? And what the hell is that doing there!? Spore is a sight to behold: a strategy game made up of a cluster of gaming styles that take you from a protozoan swimming in a primordial soup to the commander of a spaceship, all in about eight hours. We're introduced to an amoeba, a purple blob with big cute eyes squidging across a microscopic world. There's been a lot of evolving since ... » Read Full Spore preview

Spore - hands-on

Will Will Wright's latest be worth the wait?

Sep 20, 2007

Sept. 20, 2007 So, you're aware that Spore is a life simulator in which you (as a Play-Doh-wielding god) raise a species up from a single-celled organism all the way through to a planet-destroying scourge of the galaxy. We're on the same page, right? The game, rather like the whole concept of life itself, is far too big to describe in the space allotted - so check with Mr Google if you're not up to speed, then rejoin the printed-page party right here as soon as you can. As we're doing the ... » Read Full Spore preview

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