Yes, we know that we keep going on about Spore (when we're not going on about LittleBigPlanet) but that's because creator and gaming genius, Will Wright, keeps going on about it.

This time he's only gone and broken a corporate rule of communication by being all open and honest about release dates. Surely to the chagrin and his marketing and PR bodyguards he's told Forbes, "We wanted to ship a year ago but all the sharing and connections, etc., was what we had to fully leverage. That was the biggest part of the delay."

What? An actual delay actually admitted to in front of a magazine read by shareholders? Good on you Will, we salute you.

^{Source: Forbes}