After three years in making, Spore, the next game from Will Wright will hit the store shelves on September 7, as announced today by Electronic Arts.

“The wait is almost over,” said Will Wright, who is Maxis Chief Designer and the father of SimCity and The Sims. “We’re in our final stages of testing and polish with Spore, and the team at Maxis can’t wait to see the cosmos of content created by the community later this year.”

Spore will be available for the PC, Macintosh, Nintendo DS and mobile phones, EA said in a press statement.

Will Wright presented his concept about Spore at GDC 2005 and won and since then the game has received several awards. At E3 2005 Spore won the following Game Critics Awards: Best of Show, Best Original Game, Best PC Game, and Best Simulation Game.

Next year, also at E3, Spore received another three Game Critic Awards: Best PC Game, Best Original Game, and Best Simulation.

Also, in 2006, Spore was presented on the front cover of the front cover of The Wall Street Journal, with an article titled "Master of the Universe" and with the following tagline: "Meet the man who proved videogames don't have to be about sex and gore"

Spore that follows under the God game category, aims to be the best simulation game ever.

The player will take the control of a simple microbe and with the Editors offered by the game, it will transform the simple form of life into an intelligent, tool-using race.

And this is just the beginning. The player should guide his species to build and evolve in a huge, lush world populated with creatures evolved by other players and shared over SPORE’s central servers.

When it is ready,the one-time pond scum will launch into space in its UFO on a grand voyage of discovery, planet forming, or destruction.

What else we might add? Oh, yes, check here the latest video released at last year’s Game Convention.