Spore Gets Official Release Date

Anticipated for as long as I can imagine, Will Wright’s Spore finally gets a release date.  Initially it was announced to be released in Q1 2008, but now it’s been pushed back to September 7th, 2008.  Not exactly the greatest release date, but it’s one day after my birthday! 

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Why not the greatest release date?  The only reason that this blogger can think of so far is a major one – the horde of students returning to school means that parents certainly won’t be happy to see their son or daughter excitedly playing the game instead of doing their homework.  I know that if I was a parent, I’d definitely want my child to be focusing on school as it’s definitely a lot more important than a game – rather, I’d confiscate the game and then probably “try it out” myself, haha.

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Either way, it’s finally announced.  Let’s hope it doesn’t pull a Windows Vista (SP1 too) and delay, because I’d be pretty darn mad if that happened.  Pretty darn mad.