This game is looking good. It's gameplay looks very nice.

Anyway, I'm suddenly posting this because I found this on Google Video. It's 35 minutes, but it shows a lot of the new Spore game, I suggest you check it out. If you click "More Video" on the right, there's a longer 1 hour version, which I beleive is the unedited version of this, but I haven't watched it.

Wow. it looks sooo cool. i got the first news on this game early last year. looks good is there a release date???

Yeah, I heard about it early last year, but I just found that vid. I cannit remember a release date but late this year would seem about right.

Still no news... This topic is over 2 years old now XD

And there hasnt been anymore news on Spore either....Anyone get any ideas on whats happened to it?

It's attracted a fair bit of attention, and I think is due for release THIS YEAR!

Yeah, I preordered it when I saw the first load of videos, but I saw a recent video and the gameplay just didn't look very.. good.

Recent video? Where from?

Has a penciled release date of March apparently... Not anything for certain... But you never know.

I think it's looking good for March. Haven't seen a lot of new info lately, and the older information made it look pretty much finished, but needing refinement. They've had plenty of time for that. Then again, Spore is turning into the next DNF.

I don't think anything could come close to DNF in that respect...

Oh so very true. Though apparantly it might be this year. Or next year. Or the year after...

Spore is going to be released for Mac OS X

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?optio ... 1&Itemid=1
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?optio ... 9&Itemid=1

Interesting, I guess we'll see more of that as porting is much easier now due to the same architecture.

It should be a heavy development task but unfortunately, it isn't. Most of the EA games on Windows coming to the Mac are basically emulated.

Are they? I thought it wouldn't be too hard just to port them, like porting to a 360, due to the similar architecture. Then again, I don't see why Mac users who want to play games don't just use BootCamp.

Porting from Windows to Mac is like porting from Windows to Linux or Unix, because OS X is based on Darwin Unix. This is a mammoth task! There's some sort of recompiler they use...

Ah, OK. Still not as bad as a PS3 port, though (the PS3 has some unusual architecture that developers haven't used before. Valve dismissed it as a waste of time and got EA to do the PS3 port of Orange box even though they did the 360 port).

Yeah, the Cell is extremely difficult to program.

Kinda why the PS3 is flopping a bit...

Anyway, Spore... I wonder how many dodgy creatures will be created...

Can you still go back to the amoeba levels and then fast forward to see what becomes of them? I thought that was a cool feature in the early videos.

I don't get what you mean? Have it so they just auto evolve for you?

I presume so if you really wanted too... But I'd rather create something to evlve than just let nature run its course... I might do that on 1 game... But not on all of them. it would be interesting to see what the game actually came up with on its own, and whether its the same everytime. I doubt that seeing as they could have like a billion different evolution steps in theory!

Hmm, I just remembered about the online content thing. I wonder if they're still doing that?

September! Finally!

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_%28video_game%29

Even better, we get it before America!

Who wants to place bets on the release date being pushed back? Though they should have had enough time by then...