Microsoft is shutting down Project Spark, its Mario Maker rival

Project Spark, Microsoft’s odd ‘make your own’ game, is shutting down. No longer available for download, Project Spark will vanish completely this August when its servers are shut off. If you’re unfamiliar, Spark was a bit like Minecraft or Mario Maker, except it promised to go way beyond 8-bit graphics or side-scrolling play. It let players create in-game objects and characters — or tweak what had been created already. In a blog post announcing the shutd