Maxis on Release Date and More

In two interviews over at IGN Maxis’ Lucy Bradshaw, Morgan Roarty and Will Wright answered numerous questions regarding many different topics, including the release date and the ongoing fine-tuning of Spore.

IGN: We’ve seen a lot of pseudo-release dates pop up here and there, was the game ever seriously going to release before this September?

Lucy Bradshaw: This is really our first real public announcement about release dates, this is our formal, this is when we’re definitely going public with it. This is a lot. So September 7th, 2008.

Oh, and you can actually do your own national anthem. How cool is that!