Spore has taken it on the chin lately but today Electronic Arts decided to send out a press release with some good news about the alien evolution sim game. The press release announced that their alien evolution sim has now sold over 1 million copies since its launch September 7. That figure apparently covers the PC, Mac and DS versions of the game; there's no word on specific sales numbers for each of the platforms.

In addition, EA states that over 25 million creatures have been created for the game using its editing tools. Oddly enough the company has also bragged about Spore's collective Metacritic rating (which averages the review scores of a number of media outlets). Spore's PC version has gotten an 85 rating from Metacritic and while that's certainly a solid number it also has to be considered a disappointment considering all of the hype and pre-release praise it received from the press beforehand. By comparison, previously released PC games in 2008 like Sins of a Solar Empire, Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor, Armageddon Empires, Mass Effect and Bionic Commando Rearmed all have higher Metacritic scores than Spore and we still have three more months to go.