Amazon dropped their price on Spore to 43.99, and until October 11th, if you buy the game with the guide, you get the guide free. That's not really that big of a deal because I hear the guide completely sucks, but it's automatically combined with another deal from Amazon that gives you five percent off the combined total of Spore and its guide. Meaning that it's cheaper to buy the game and the guide than it is to buy the game by itself.

I'm excited about finally playing the game, even though everyone is saying it wasn't quite as great as it was hyped up to be. (Though, from what I can tell, most people's problems lie with the DRM and the game's ability to overwhelm some systems rather than the game itself. So... here's hoping?)