Release Date TBA

As of today, there is still no official release date for Spore.  It was announced by WiIll Wright for Fall 2006, and some sources online have said 2007.  I think EA will push Spore to be released for 2006 Q4, in time for Christmas.  They released The Sims Online in December 2002, and The Sims 2 on September 14th 2004.  When The Sims Online came out, it wasn't all that ready.  Major updates continued to come in, so much that the current version is now "New & Improved!"  If they release Spore this fall, I think they will release updates as they are ready.

We also have not gotten much material to play around with.  In Caryl Shaw's GDC 2006 speech, she talks about how they released a Sim editor before the Sims 2 was released as part of an open beta test.  This allowed them to populate their database with different sims before it went public.  We can expect the same for Spore, seeing that they need creatures in their database to populate worlds of online players. I will keep this site posted on beta tests and release dates.  A lot of new information is expected to be released at this years E³.