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

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 ...

Max has loved video games ever since he booted up his friend's N64 and played Mario Kart. He quickly spent all his allowance on any game he could get his hands on, and spent hours playing a dusty PS2.

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 ...

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 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 ...

In an unofficial race for the dubious honor of most pirated game, Electronic Arts' Spore has toppled the competition, amassing a rather impressive 1.7 million illicit downloads since its September ...

"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 ...

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 ...