Spore is coming!

I wrote about Wil Wright, incredible creator of the Sim Games Series before. His much anticipated game “Spore” comes out September 7, 2008 but you can pre-order it now.

Here is Wil Wright speaking about Spore and giving a preview of the game along with more at the TED Conference:

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Spore looks utterly amazing. In pre-release there has been MUCH talk about it being “Game of the Year” and with Wil Wright behind and by this preview I can see why. There are a few different ways to purchase Spore and I wanted to clarify WHAT each gives you:

A few months ago the Spore Creature Creator was released. For just $9.99 you could use their powerful yet easy-to-use creation tool to create and play

Primary Games — Safe Educational & Fun Computer Game Site

PrimaryGames.com
Primary Games is an educational site for children. It breaks its games down nicely into many categories including; Math, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, puzzles, arcade, Top Ten Games and also the Game of the Day. There is also a section where teachers and parents can search for curriculum appropriate games. You can register to have your high scores saved but it is not necessary and this is a free site. They do have ads so as always I issue caution for younger children (who don’t know the dangers of clicking ads and being taken off-site) but the ads did not seem inappropriate. This site has won many awards and I can see why…. Most of these games run using Shockwave, Java or Flash. Here are a few of