Friday, March 17, 2006

SPORE!

That shall be my battle cry.

This has been circulating on the tech-geek circuit for a couple of weeks now, but has yet to escape into the mainstream-geekosphere in the volume it deserves. This is a thirty-five minute video which you need to see. It's Will Wright, creator of SimCity and The Sims, talking about his forthcoming creation, Spore. Industry insiders got to see this talk about a year ago, and again more recently, but only in the last couple weeks has this video of his talk become available online.

The descriptor of the movie calls this "what could possibly the best video game ever." And it is not lying. Take half an hour of your day. The link is here so you don't even have to mouse back up to the previous paragraph for it.

Tentative release dates I'm hearing are this coming fall or winter. I don't doubt it'll run late... but I'll be right there in line to pick up my preorder copy on the very bloody day of release, and Star will be right behind me. And we'll probably even let Aria play too. Once she can pry our hands off the mouse.

Wow.