September 24, 2008
ONE MILLION GAMES SOLD AND 25
MILLION CREATIONS UPLOADED
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS)
today announced that Spore™ has sold through more than one million copies at
retail worldwide on the PC, Mac® and Nintendo DS™, since shipping worldwide on
September 7th. Spore, developed by EA’s Maxis™ Studio, is also available on
mobile phones including the iPhone™. 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™ 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 Games Label. “Will Wright’s latest delivers an incredibly
diverse game that appeals to casual gamers and the core alike. We’re off to a
great start moving into the holiday season and believe Spore will deliver a
platform of creativity for gamers of all stripes for years to come.”
“We’re humbled by how quickly the
community has taken to the creativity tools in Spore,” said Lucy Bradshaw, vice
president of Maxis and Spore’s executive producer. “It’s amazing to see the
sheer imagination represented in the hundreds of thousands of creatures,
vehicles and buildings that have been uploaded around the clock since launch.”
Spore – rated E10+ — gives players
their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes,
build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe filled with
creations made by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools
to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles,
buildings, and even spaceships.
To download a free trial of the
Spore™ Creature Creator, please visit
www.spore.com.
