An interesting article on TechCrunch about Spore and the backlash because of its DRM restrictions. 

Summary 

1. Spore is expected to sell 2 million copies in Sep alone
2. #3 best selling game on Amazon
3. Average customer review on Amazon - 1.5 stars ( as of Sep 14 2008)
4. From TorrentFreak - Spore is the most pirated game - 500,000 copies already downloaded.
5. Metacritic user score - 5.1/10 
6. MetaCritic score - 86/100
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 I am still hooked on to this. I hear the DS version is out this week? Spore review from Yahoo! ""Spore aims to please gamers of all kinds -- and for the most part, it will. This isn't the game of evolution, it's the evolution of games."

After more than three years of anticipation, Spore is almost finished.

Electronic Arts' evolution game, from legendary designer Will Wright's Maxis studio, is about a week from going "gold," I was told Tuesday by Thomas Vu, a producer on the game who gave me a demo Tuesday morning. Going gold, of course, means the game is about to be sent to manufacturing. EA has said that Spore will launch September 7.

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Gamestop has listed a $80 version of the Spore Galactic edition. Pre-order now and ships 9/7/2008

Mon June 16, 2008
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