Space Oddity’s Spore Blog

Today EA released the first info about Darkspore, a few days earlier than expected.

Gamasutra says:

The game is a notable departure for Maxis, which made its name under the EA umbrella with systems-based simulation games like SimCity and The Sims. Darkspore is due in February 2011 for PC. It is the first major new title announcement for the studio since the departure of SimCity and The Sims creator Will Wright.

“Darkspore is its own fully robust PC action RPG, and it’s set in an action sci-fi world. It’s not an extension of Spore, but it was inspired by and shares some of the innovative technology we created for Spore,” said Lucy Bradshaw, general manager of Maxis.

More info an pictures can be found at Wired.