There's a strong case to be made that Maxis excels at making software toys rather than games. And there's a not so insignificant difference there, because a toy is something that you tinker with, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Grand Theft Auto IV" may have stolen hard-core gamers' wallets during the first half of 2008--selling some 10 million units worldwide--but "Spore" is exciting everyone else. The hugely ambitious ...

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 ...

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 ...

Electronic Arts' much anticipated evolution game, Spore hits store shelves Sunday in North America, and for those that have been on the project since the beginning, it has been a long road from ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Last year's highly anticipated Spore was released with much ado to fans who may not have found everything they wanted from the multistage evolution of ...