Spore Hits Alpha

Spore is looking brighter, cooler and more polished with the latest information released. IGN got together with Maxis VP of Marketing Patrick Buechner to ask him a bunch of interesting questions. Among them we get to learn that a version is coming to the Nintendo DS, the release date stands firm (early Q2 2008) and that the game has hit alpha stage; which means the game is fully playable, now it’s just the gruesome task of game balancing and bug squatting left.

Right now the game is at its Alpha stage of development, which for us means that you can play the game through from your humble beginnings as a little blob of eyeballs all the way out though your species exploration and colonization and conquest of space.

Note that Spore isn’t being showcased at this year’s E3. Instead it’s going to be shown for the media at Leipzig in August.