Spore Editor Available June 17th

Dr. Eggman writes "Ars Technica heralds the coming of the creature editor for the highly anticipated Spore. A previously promised downloadable demo of the creature editor from the game, due on September 7th, will be available June 17th. Furthermore, a full version of the creature editor will appear as a standalone product at the same time for $10. According to EA: 'The demo lets players shape, paint and play with an unlimited number of creatures, using 25 percent of the creature-making parts from Spore. Gamers can then share these creations with their friends, including seamless uploads to YouTube.'"

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Re:fisher-price creatures?

[Anonymous Coward]

In short, What was M. C. Escher is now M. C. Hammer.

*has visions of parachute pants that appear to billow both outwards and inwards at the same time*

Re:Spore Editor?

[autocracy]

Hey, it's that or we bring back Roland.

Spore Wife

[hansamurai]

All my wife wants to do in Spore is make creatures, heck, all she does in the Sims is make us and then produce 10 spawns from "us". She's got a real bun in the oven now though, so maybe she'll get over this faze, but the whole point of this is: if I can spend 10 dollars to make her happy until we have to take care of a real spore, I'll take it.

We have the technology...

[imasu]

This editor will allow is to finally reanimate Duke Nukem to kick some mutant ass, in... Duke Nukem SPOREVER!

Re:money off the full game?

[Toonol]

I would get whiplash if I expressed that strong of a self-contradiction so clearly and in so few words...

Re:Vaporware?

[sexconker]

Spore will not make the September 7th date.
It'll be pushed to "Holiday 2008" with the excuse that they have to go through our millions of submissions to populate the world.
It will then be pushed to "Q1 2009", with the excuse that they want to make sure the servers are ready ready for our massive influx.

The game will release in April, 2009, with many features missing. These features will be available "soon after release", but will never fully materialize.

The game itself will enjoy moderate initial sales, but will suffer a quick drop off. Total worldwide sales will not break 400,000 (ever).

Drop in productivity? Hah.
You my friend have never met Tetris.
Invented by the Russians to destroy the American workforce and turn us all into fat lazy slobs.

Besides - it's not as if the typical office machine would be able to run spore anyway. Don't show up to work? Someone else will, so don't bother coming in on Monday, either.
With Tetris, all you need is a web browser, a cell phone, or a calculator, and you're in business, while still looking like you're in business.