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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Sigh. It turns out EA’s exciting announcement was indeed the Spore Creature Creator/newspaper deal we revealed a few days ago. Don’t get me wrong, getting the app free ($2 for Mexicans) is a nice deal, but it’s small consolation for selling it at the NZ EA Store, while at the same time keeping us in the dark.
From the EA release:
The Spore Creature Creator will be available with the Herald Sun and The Saturday Daily Telegraph on Saturday, August 2, and with The Courier Mail on Saturday, August 30. The game will be free with The Saturday Daily Telegraph in New South Wales, and available for $2 with purchase of the Herald Sun in Victoria and The Courier-Mail in Queensland.
Exciting for the East coast, maybe, but not for NT, SA, WA or Tassie.
Full document after the jump.
EA’s release of the Spore Creature Creator was an odd one; the publisher made the program available to most of the world… except Australia. When asked why this was the case, we were told to brace ourselves for an exciting announcement. It was eventually discovered that Australians could indeed buy the program, as long as they were willing to go to the NZ EA Store.
Now, I hope this isn’t the exciting announcement EA was talking about, but it appears readers of the Saturday Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun will be able to get their hands on the full version of the Spore Creature Creator on August 2. It will be free with the former, while the latter will “give it way” for $2 and a coupon.
That’s all we know for now. You can check out the offers yourself using the links below (thanks Parabol).
Get your free video game [The Daily Telegraph] Spore [Herald Sun]
