Maxis and Electronic Arts' latest life simulator Spore has gone Gold, and is on track for a September 7th launch. The title will hit the PC, Mac, Nintendo DS and Wii.

Spore lets players to create their own creatures, environments, and even planets in an effort to successfully manage a universe through five phases of evolution. Earlier this year, Electronic Arts released a free tool called Spore Creature Creator that allows users to play around with the creature creation feature.

When starting a new game, users can only play with single-cell animals, which, however, can be evolved to intelligent beings that conquer other planets. The player has a number of creative tools at his disposal to craft creatures, buildings and spaceships. Players establish tribes of creatures and build entire civilizations. But the real fun clearly with exploring the universe and discovering creatures created by other people.