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Article: Spore Begins With a Big Bang!
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- Entertainment Newsweekly
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- October 10, 2008
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Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) announced that Spore(TM) has sold through more than one million copies at retail worldwide on the PC, Mac(R) and Nintendo DS(TM), since shipping worldwide on September 7th. Spore, developed by EA's Maxis(TM) Studio, is also available on mobile phones including the iPhone(TM). To date, gamers have used the creativity tools in Spore to populate the universe with more than 25 million creatures, vehicles and buildings available to view in the Sporepedia(TM) at www.spore.com/sporepedia.
Spore has been well received by game critics - with a Metacritic index of: 85.
"Spore is a hit," said Frank Gibeau, president of the EA ...