As we mentioned a while back, the spore editor is being released prior to the game itself, and thanks to Joystiq and EA, we now have a date for this release; June. Very accurate!

However we also learn that EA plans to charge for one version of the editor, which will contain 75% more content than the free one. Typical stuff, but hey, if you are looking foward to the game so much, I'm sure you won't mind paying.

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