
10 years after his last game, designer Will Wright is back with a new project called Proxi, a mobile game where…
In 2008, I brought my laptop over to my friend Amanda’s house to pirate Spore. Her boyfriend Nate, who worked at the…

No Man’s Sky and Spore have a lot in common. Both were ambitious to a fault. They aimed for the stars, but fell well…
It is the year 2016, and three of the items on Steam’s top ten best-sellers list are Spore. A midweek madness sale of Spore and its expansions is to blame, but still: strange times. Also interesting: despite being broadly declared a letdown, Spore’s 8,373 Steam reviews are 87% positive, or “very positive” by Steam’s… Read more

WoW’s most notable (and cutest) creatures deserve to be in other game worlds too. Modder Rebecca1208 gave them the Sp…
In the fall of 2006, the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine published dueling Spore previews in the span of…

Whether it’s a classic adventure game, or a shooter that came out a few months, ago it doesn’t matter. Some…
Do you remember 2006? The president of the United States was George W. Bush, a website called Twitter was about to…

On November 6, 2012 a profoundly simple game called Curiosity was officially launched on iPhones, inviting people to…

Following a struggle with the tech folks following a fault in the SimCity press servers, the lost city of Fahey's…

People become gamers by accident, usually when they're young. A school-friend's console turns them into one. Or a…

If you've ever seen Will Wright, the big brain behind games like The Sims, Spore and SimCity, deliver one of his…
Steam makes it easy to get into the beta program for Maxis' Spore spin-off Darkspore. Just head to the Steam web site
Spore is an amazing creative experience diluted by a broad gameplay focus. Darkspore has one focus: Building a…

Electronic Arts is giving us an advanced look at how cooperative play is going to work in upcoming action…
Darkspore is a bit like classic action title Diablo, with a twist: Instead of concentrating on leveling up a single…

Here's the reveal trailer for Darkspore, the intense, fast-paced action role-playing game set in the colorful,…