The Hidden Palace, a group of game preservationists, has released a beta version of Spore (2008) that's dated six months before the final version of the game.

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 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 ...

Sami Scigouski is a recent graduate from Miami University of Oxford with a BS in Games + Simulations. Her love of gaming started casually with a family Nintendo Wii but quickly grew into a more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spore lets people play god, tinker with a digital primordial soup and birth civilizations that conquer galaxies. It also may produce a similar big bang for Electronic Arts Inc. Spore -- one of the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Spore is an enjoyable game that pulls off an interesting balancing act. On one hand, it lets you create a creature and guide its maturation from a ...