It's been confirmed for PC and DS, and hinted at releasing for several other consoles, and we've even seen plenty of early and not so early gameplay demos, so how much longer must we wait?

EA is reporting a slight loss for the quarter. It expects profits for the year to fall short about ten cents, hitting a high of $1.20 as opposed to the expected $1.31. The company's share price was down 3% in extended trading yesterday. The reason for these adjustments? EA reluctantly announced that Spore has been delayed until Q2 2008. Electronic Arts said it had taken out Spore, a game where players build organisms from scratch, from its financial projections for the fiscal year ending in March 2008, adding that the game could be delayed until fiscal 2009.

Considering development for the game started in 2000, I'd say we deserve some type of update from Will Wright soon. It's hard to compare Spore to any other game, so I'll compare it to the universe instead. The light coming off a Spore projector screen during a presentation could travel to Alpha Centauri and back in 8.74 years. In other words, even light itself is getting bored with waiting. I sure as hell don't want to be the one who has to tell light that Will Wright still isn't done when it gets back, light can be such a B-hole. There, I finally got to use that joke, and can die a happy science geek now.

Today Electronics Arts announced their third quarter fiscal earnings, raking in a three month net revenue of $1.28 billion dollars, yet their stock shares refuse to rise much. After the earnings were announced, executives from the publisher actually confirmed that Spore would be released on the Nintendo DS, as well as the PC. A release date wasn't offered though, they only mentioned that it would be some time before March 31, 2008, so try not to get too excited.

In related news, the kiddy, more simpler Sims that's coming to the Wii will also be headed to the DS. Both games will receive the title My Sims, and both should be out within the next three months. I don't usually find simulation games very fun as console games, but playing them on the go on a handheld is something I'm willing to spend money on. Hopefully we get some more updates on Spore soon, I think it's about time Will Wright showed us some new pictures.

The highly anticipated Spore game has been rumored to receive a soundtrack from the famous electronic musician Brian Eno, but it's now confirmed. Brian is known to many as "the father of modern ambient music," and has been creating music ever since the early 70's, including over 30 solo albums since his debut, as well as the famous startup sound for Windows 95.

Video game soundtracks can be a lot of fun, but Spore was one of the last games I thought I'd be excited over for its music. Spore is due out in the third quarter of 2007, but I wouldn't be surprised if it gets pushed back into early 2008. I'm sure Will Wright still has plenty of more eye opening tricks up his sleeve before we see this game on shelves.

Jenova Chen's addictive flOw game has been delayed to January 2007 for no particular reason. You can still play it online for free though, but the PS3 version will have four more controllable creatures with their own unique environments to play in. Obviously SIXAXIS motion sensitivty controls will enhance the experience as well, along with better graphics and audio than the flash game online. I've talked to Jenova Chen before and know he's hard at work on Spore, so I blame Will Wright for the delay. Stop being needy Will!

I always knew video games made Stephen Colbert horny, but now I finally have the proof. This week he geeked out on Wii Sports and now he's announced that Sims and Spore creator Will Wright will be on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report show on Monday, December 4. Any guesses on how he'll relate Will Wright's work to politics? Has Will Wright agreed to make a Stephen Colbert planet built entirely of Stephen Colbert bridges to put Venice to shame? I think it would be badass if he made the entire episode inside the Spore game, like how South Park had an entire episode devoted to World of Warcraft universe. I'll make sure to post it as soon as the video hits the web next week.

UPDATE: The Will Wright portion of the conference is all over and they have now moved on to other technology speakers unfortunately. Most of what was covered is all old news, but he did go into depth a little about the card system for the creature creations everyone will make. Read on for more details.

Right now... as you read this... Will Wright is playing Spore. Yah I know, what's new right? Well it's being streamed live onto the net right now. You can stream the video here. Pop!Tech should be live streaming all of their speaker videos today, and will continue on updates over the next two days. Check out all the expected speakers here. [Thanks YouNEWB]

 

Things Will Wright Covered: (Keep checking in for more updates throughout the day)

+Your creature creations will be turned into cards, which others can collect and try out in their games

+The physics and fluid engines breaks all the rules and doesn't take any memory at all cause Will Wright is amazing 

+Describes how games nowadays like to explore specifics and simplicity of gameplay, names toys Americans don't understand 

+Spore patents new gaming word: Scenius - the genius of a group of people 

+AI is being discussed, Will Wright says that your Spore game will learn how foreign creatures should act based on how other players have designed and played them in other games of Spore

+A speaker scolds the question taker for not choosing raised hands in the right order :)

+Discussing game's evoked emotions and comparing them to White House's bad decisions! Also compares to Ico's awe and wonder

+"Take a Virgin to lunch" break number one has begun, damn I wish I was there! These guys are very organized and fun

It looks like that's it for the Spore portion of the event, but the conference is still going on with more technology coverage. 

 

The crafty bastards over on NeoGAF have struck again, and exposed 8 PS3 games that will be available for download online. The list includes Blast Factor, fl0w, Go Sudoku, Lemmings 2, Swizzleblocks, Gripshift, Crash Carbage Chaos, and Wheel of Fortune. To see a bunch of pictures of these games hit up the NeoGAF forums.

Above is a quick look at one of those games, flOw. I've personally spoken with Jenova Chen, one of the game designers responsible for the creativity behind the game flOw and even Spore, and I can personally vouch for any games he's involved with being worth gamers' time and money. With studies on the psychology of Flow theory's interactions with anxiety and boredom, you can be sure that fl0w is definitely a game worth taking a look at when you get around to getting a PS3. You can breifly try out the game fl0w for yourself here on Jenova's site.