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It's the collective shriek of millions of gamers reacting to the story that Electronic Arts is pushing off the release of Wil Wright's new game, Spore, to late 2008.
I am one of the shriekers. We've been reading about this game and getting the occasional glimpse at it for several years now, and at the electronic games shows last year, Wright and EA were saying it would be released in time for Christmas 2007. But EA's latest financial report indicates that now they're not anticipating releasing the game for a full year beyond that.
These kind of deeply immersive games are few and far between. Civilization IV has been out for a couple of years now and there is another expansion pack for it coming soon, but adding a few new scenarios to a well-established game like Civ is usually not worth the asking price. And, honestly, I am tired of Civ IV and want to move on to something else. If Spore is only half the game Wil Wright has promised it will be, it will still be groundbreaking. But I guess we won't know that for sure until AFTER Hillary beats Rudy next year.
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