We started the day a little later today due to the late night. We did, however, make it to the Wil Wheaton talk. Admittedly, I didn't know who he was, but once I was told he was Wesley Crusher from Star Trek my ears were open. He turned out to be a really good speaker. He gave the keynote at last year's PAX, so he had a very warm welcome here. He started by giving a short introduction and then read an excerpt out of his recent book.  It was actually a compelling enough excerpt that I want to read more.  After all that, he answered various questions from the audience. Definitely a worthwhile experience!

After that we got food at the Daily Grill next door—it was quite delicious.  Luckily, we finished eating just in time for the talk on Spore.  There has already been a lot of coverage on Spore, but it was still fun to watch a live demo.  As one of the talks pointed out, Will Wright makes really good toys, and I’m actually looking forward to playing this one.  I wasn’t interested at all in The Sims, but this may have some redeeming value.  Just the sheer amount of creativity from the community already is pretty staggering, so it will be fun to see how the worlds in the game evolve.