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 ...

The most hotly anticipated game of the year. And last year. And the year before that.... March 2005 Will Wright unveils his ambitious galactic sim at the Game Developers Conference. Release date for ...

My two boys are in early primary school, and the more they play and share with me what they have discovered and developed in the SPORE world the more and more I think this is the type of game that ...

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 ...

Game designer Will Wright has never been one for half measures. Wright’s first hit, SimCity, released in 1989, set out to model the complexities of urban planning. Two decades later, he’s moved on to ...

“Spore,” the latest creation from legendary game designer Will Wright, is massive. First, let’s talk about scope. “Spore” takes on nothing less than the evolution of a species, asking players to ...

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 ...

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 ...