Electronic Arts' long awaited alien evolution sim game Spore is already shipped for folks in Europe (the US release is due on Sunday) but it appears that the folks across the water have had some issues signing onto the game's online servers.

While Spore is technically a single player game EA has set up its DRM that makes people register their copy on the Internet before they can begin playing. A post on EA's UK message board states, "We are aware that many of you are having login problems with Spore. This is being investigated so please bear with us." While another message from the same message board moderator seemed to indicate things are improving, several other posters are still stating they cannot log in and register their copy of the game. Just for the record we downloaded and registered our review copy of the game without any issues so it's possible that the US release will not have as many problems.