EA has issued a statement to counter what Will Wright has been saying with regards to Spore; quite simply, don't expect console versions anytime soon. Joystiq reports on this later development in more detail, however it seems as though EA wants the development team to focus on the PC version of Spore for the moment rather than jumping into the console version. There could be several reasons for this latest development, including a possible weariness to push the game too hard in the unlikely event that the PC version flops. EA might also want to see what general gameplay bugs need to be worked out from the PC version before fully launching console development. One thing is for sure, and that is that if Spore is a success it will head to Spore sooner or later (probably sooner!).

It seems as though Aspyr picked up a nice Apple Design Award at latest WWDC. The article noted that the Apple version of The Sims 2 needed to "show even more polish and take advantage of Mac specific features" in order to grab the award for Aspyr. You can see the full news piece on the award at IMG News.

It seems that a port of SimCity will be heading to the Nintendo DS portable game console, as reported by Joystiq.com. The game will apparently only be availibe in Japan and will model SimCity 3000.