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August 14, 2008 10:31 AM PDT

'Spore' goes gold

by Daniel Terdiman

As was first reported here last month, Electronic Arts' hotly-anticipated new evolution game, Spore, was about to go "gold."

Now, EA says, the game from SimCity and The Sims designer Will Wright has indeed done so, meaning that development on it is finished, and Spore is off to manufacturing.

Now all that's left is for the Spore marketing operation to kick into high gear, getting ready for the game's September 7 launch.

It's hard to imagine that this video game, which was first announced in 2005, and which has had its ship date redefined several times, is about to come out. But that's exactly what's happening.

And that means that you and I, and likely millions of others, will soon be playing around in primordial ooze, learning how to make friends with new tribes, conquering foreign civilizations, and colonizing space.

If, after September 7, I seem to disappear for a few days, well, you might check my home office and see if I'm sitting there, sort of catatonic, trying to get just a little further in the game.

If you want to whet your appetite in the meantime, you can check out a few of the creatures from the game here.

Daniel Terdiman is a staff writer at CNET News covering games, Net culture, and everything in between. E-mail Daniel.
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by minonda August 14, 2008 11:06 AM PDT
You're going to install Spore on your computer? Doesn't SecuROM and being treated like a parolee bother you at all?
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by bakedpatato August 14, 2008 11:44 AM PDT
**** please stop, you and every other person on /. and Digg and etc...
seriously, Spore is going to be a great game(Will Wright FTW), and EA will learn soon enough that DRM don't work. However, the more we whine about DRM, the more likely EA/Ubisoft/etc... will want to go over to the console side only. I am willing to compromise,but it seems like the rest of the interwebs is unwilling to. If I can't activative a SecureROM game in the future, then you know what I'll use? Yes ,a crack.
Honestly, I am getting sick and tired of hearing people writing off great games(Bioshock/Mass Effect/Spore),and refusing to play them because of SecureROM.
/end rant
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