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Wright told us that Spore is slated to come out sometime during the second half of 2007. It's currently at a stage that he calls Pre-Alpha Five. In non-geek, this means that the game is finally at a point where EA employees outside of his team can play it from beginning to end, though they must endure rough transitions and levels of difficulty that have yet to be tuned. The project's subsequent milestones--Pre-Alpha Four, Pre-Alpha Three, etc.--are expected to be achieved monthly until it finally hits Alpha next spring.
Apart from that, there's no new information. Still, it's good to know precisely what stage the game is at. Though that "sometime during the second half" opens up the possibility of it being as late as Christmas '07. I wouldn't be surprised, personally.
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