Last summer, Will Wright hinted at a multiplatform release for his massive undertaking Spore, kicking the rumor mill into high gear. An old job posting for a designer tasked with developing Spore assets for handhelds pretty much confirmed it.

EA did their best to quiet such talk rather quickly, stating that the only confirmed platform was the PC version. Oh, and that bastard child mobile phone version, but no one seemed to care.

Today, EA finally came clean on the Nintendo DS version of Spore, pegging it for release sometime before March 31 of 2008. Wright speaks at DICE next week, so keep your eyes on our coverage for (hopefully) further info from the man himself. Michael McWhertor

Spore Coming to DS [Next-Gen]

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