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- "We have passed the doledrum months of Summer, including a mindnumbingly boring August, and are entering the beginning of the annual onslaught that is Christmas season game releases. From here on out until December, we will have more game releases that the rest of the year combined.

So sit back, relax and check out some of our picks for the month of September on the PC gaming platform. Word of advice, save your money as it is going to get expensive."
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Leading German mag PC Games has reviewed Spore at 71 percent, VG247 has learnt today.
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EA's just confirmed that Will Wright's to appear on Oxford Street tomorrow for a surprise Q&A session with fans.
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The Spore street date has been broken. The game was due to launch on September 7th in the US, and September 4th in Australia, however EB Games Australia are already selling the title nationwide. This is both the regular and Galactic Edition.
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UK mag PC Gamer has published the first UK review of EA's Christmas mega-risk, Spore.
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Creating life forms from scratch is only a piece of the final game, which allows players to go from squirming singled-cell organism to fully fledged space-dwelling civilization. Published by Electronic Arts and developed by Wright's Emeryville, Calif.-based studio Maxis, "Spore" takes a microscopic look at players' choices and their repercussions.

Unlike Wright's people simulator "The Sims," which went on to become the best-selling PC game of all time, the ever-changing gameplay in the five levels of "Spore" fluctuates based on decisions made by the user about their species, such as choosing to become a carnivore over a herbivore or deciding to destroy other creatures instead of socialize with them.
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An Australian user of the Facepunch Studios Forums managed to snag a copy of Spore almost a week before the US gets it.
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Kotaku Writes:

"f you pre-orded Will Wright's upcoming opus Spore from the Electronic Arts Store you can hit up EA today to pre-load the game."

"Once pre-ordered you can use the EA Download Manager to download 99 percent of the game to your computer. That's the good news. The bad news is that that last 1 percent of Spore is going to take you 30 minutes to an hour to download and install on on Sept. 7 when the game hits North America."
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TVGB: "…monsters. I got you there, didn't I? Finally thought you were going to get the inside scoop on Will Wright's wang. Well no such luck (or misfortune, depending on how you look at these things). This little story is all about the legendary game maker's opinions on the more sordid creatures that were created with the Spore Creature Creator. As you have probably seen all over the web people took the chance to create some very, ummm, special looking creatures with the game. Does this offend Mr. Wright? Not a chance."
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Will Wright is not offended by the explicit monsters some folks have created using his evolution simulator, no matter which private parts they may resemble. In fact, Wright said he's been impressed with the indecent beasts spawned by a slimmed-down edition of "Spore," his much-anticipated but difficult-to-describe game.
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After an award winning showcase of titles at E3 in July, Electronic Arts today announced its product line up for the Leipzig Games Convention. EA will demonstrate the innovation and creativity of its portfolio for seasoned gamers and newcomers alike, as it leads the way with great interactive entertainment offerings for broad consumer tastes this year. On show in Leipzig are Europe's best selling franchises and consumer favourites like FIFA, Need For Speed, The Sims and Harry Potter, a wide range of casual and family titles for Nintendo platforms including LITTLEST PET SHOP, Boogie SuperStar, Zubo and MONOPOLY, brand new IP like SimAnimals, Mirror's Edge, Dead Space...
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Destructoid writes: "The British Board of Film Classification have thoroughly laid down the law on Will Wright's upcoming game of creature modification and evolution, Spore. The BBFC, which also rates some videogames, have decided that the ostensibly mild violence and the reference of a small alien species as "little buggers" is enough to warrant a PG rating. The rating means that there is a possibility that the game could "disturb" any child under eight-years-old. As to the reference, here is the BBFC's comment on the matter.

'…the language in the game comes late on, as the creatures and organisms at the beginning have no method of communication. Once players get to the space level, a group of aliens are referred to as 'little buggers' by a character training the player to fly a spaceship.'

Of course, violence also plays a part in Spore. According to the BBFC, the violence shown in the game is presented as a 'brief flash of red and a few spots of 'meat' which the organism must swim over to eat and grow.' After reading about the disgusting amount of gore in the game, I had to stop and take a deep breath. I am afraid I can no longer report on this decidedly nasty and terrible title. I can only hope that children never get their hands on Spore. Humanity's future could very well be compromised if developers continue to spew out this filth into our culture. What's next Mr. Wright? Are you going to include longer claws and teeth?"
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Gamedaily.biz writes: "No disrespect to our previous 10 Questions luminaries, but this just might be our best candidate yet. This is your opportunity to ask Will Wright - send us your questions now!

While we wait for the Q&A to be completed by Lionhead's Peter Molyneux (they're in his hands now and we're told we should have them soon), we're very happy to announce today that legendary game designer Will Wright will be our next 10 Questions participant.

Wright is a man who needs little introduction, but just in case you're reading this and you don't follow the industry, he co-founded developer Maxis with Jeff Braun over 20 years ago and created a game called SimCity, which revolutionized the computer games industry. Many years later he created The Sims, which has gone on to become the best selling franchise of all time with over 100 million units sold – and it spawned an entire label/division within leading publisher EA (which acquired Maxis in 1997)."
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Spore executive producer Lucy Bradshaw has ruled out a demo for Maxis' upcoming "Sim Everything", but has confirmed plans for expansions.

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From gameplayer's Quotes of the Week column: "I don't think they are really teaching anyone anything; they are just taking your money."

Also includes the dirty lifestyle secrets of Sam Houser, some cop-outs from Jonathan Blow, and a disturbing glimpse inside the mind of Will Wright.
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WorthPlaying writes: "Begin your odyssey at the dawn of life as a simple microbe just trying to survive, then evolve the creature from its microscopic origins into an intelligent, tool-using race, becoming a global civilization and choose whether to hunt or forage, attack or trade.Spore will be available on PC Sept. 5 in Europe and September 7 in North America and Asia Pacific. The NDS version will also be available on Sept. 7, 2008."
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Forbes: Video game publishing giant Electronic Arts Inc (EA) wants to license television and movie rights to its soon-to-be released Spore game to boost sales, its creative guru Will Wright said on Wednesday.

Struggling with tepid sales and flagging interest from gamers, loss-making EA is rethinking its traditional ways of developing and marketing games.

It is banking on an aggressive marketing campaign and a raft of other new titles, including Dead Space and Warhammer Online, to achieve its guidance for full-year net revenue of $5-$5.3 billion.
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Eurogamer writes: "Having spent the last eight years creating Spore, Will Wright is now eyeing a range of new projects to sink his teeth into, some of which could be "very short term".

The Sims creator's evolution epic releases on 5th September after a gruelling development effort, and while his studio, Maxis, will continue to build upon and expand the Spore brand, Wright has revealed that he has a number of new ideas already underway."
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As a simulation of evolution from single-cell organism to space-faring civilisation, Will Wright feared his latest creation, Spore, would draw criticism from religious groups. But so far, the game's creator has revealed, the portrayal of religion in the game has only drawn the ire of angry non-believers.

Wright told Eurogamer: "I think our bigger fear was that we didn't want to offend any religious people; but looking at the discussion that unfolded from this thing, what we had was a good, sizeable group of players that we might call militant atheists, and the rest of the players seemed very tolerant, including all of the religious players."
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"Spore" is coming to more than the PC and Mac in September, but the experience is - a little - limited. EA wants to fix that.

One of the big draws of "Spore" is the potentially unlimited supply of user-generated content from the Sporepedia. You can't do that on the iPhone, mobile or DS versions of "Spore." Not yet, anyway.

While checking out the minimalist iPhone version at E3 (it's only the amoeba stage), MTV frowned at the lack of interoperability with the rest of the "Spore" universe. A nearby Electronic Arts representative told them the developers are looking into the issue.
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