Electronic Arts and Maxis want Spore to be a Sims-style juggernaught. Released last weekend into retail to much anticipation and fanfare, the evolutionary game spearheaded by gaming luminary Will ...

Fortunately, Star Trek came up with a solution… one that, we now know, has created yet more problems. The end of Star Trek: ...

The action plays out like a twin-stick shooter, my parasite's undulating "secretors" functioning as guns and my host's ...

Probably the year’s most eagerly awaited PC game, Spore arrives from the folks who brought you The Sims series of games. This ambitious new effort, from designer Maxis, allows players to control the ...

When Electronic Arts' long-awaited Spore hits store shelves September 7, it will have the shadow of an extremely successful cousin looming over it. Spore, of course, is the latest game from legendary ...

Few games charm as quickly as "Spore." Seconds into the game, you slip into the primordial ooze with your single-cell organism. The creature blinks at you with a now-what helplessness that fosters the ...

Electronic Arts has released details on Spore's Creature Stage, the second phase of life in the upcoming evolution simulator from game designer Will Wright. The Creature Stage is the point in Spore ...

Maxis games generally aren't as hardware-intensive as, say, a Crysis or Call of Duty 4. The company's previous blockbuster hits include such games as Sim City and The Sims--both run well on ...

In the weeks leading up to No Man's Sky's release, when the hype train was speeding heedlessly toward the collapsed bridge of reality, the gaming community's collective neuroses coalesced beneath the ...