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Spore: Game of the Decade?

The latest Fortune calls Spore, from creator Will Wright, the game of the year. Due out this summer, if it has any of the impact his previous Sims series did, it will be around for much longer and in many more user modified formats - via widgets on a Facebook page, animated videoclips passed around on YouTube and 3-D printing.

Here is a demo Will Wright did for NASA recently.

"Microzoning"

Counter-intuitive, but...

"And even in the United States, he said, Kodak is benefiting from the moves that some publishers are making to recoup at least some of those lost advertising dollars. He notes that The Chicago Tribune and some others are trying “microzoning” — printing several versions of the paper in the same city, each with ads aimed at a specific neighborhood."

New York Times