MSN “borrows” Bookworm game idea

As previously mentioned on LISNews, the Bookworm Game offers hours of pleasure to those with a gift for word games. It\’s popularity was not lost on Microsoft, which has produced Bespelled, an almost exact knockoff. In both cases, the stated goal is to protect your library from fire.

To be fair, I have no evidence that MS didn\’t just buy the rights to the game, but I don\’t know why they replaced the bookworm with the little wizard, other than the obvious Harry Potter tie-in.