From SimCity through the development of the best-selling The Sims, Maxis has been a hugely influential development studio and has owned the simulation genre. In 2008, the company released Spore, which ...

The basis for much of my opinion on Spore comes, unfortunately, from its spin-off games for consoles and handhelds. While the original title was something which captured my interest, my inability to ...

Darkspore's been introduced to us as "Spore meets Diablo," and seeing it in action reinforces that early pitch — the game has six abilities on a bar across the bottom, and health and mana bars on ...

Earlier this month, we reported that there would be an action-RPG game in the Spore franchise revealed at Comic-Con 2010. That game, Darkspore, was announced earlier this week at Electronic Arts' ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Of course you remember Spore, 2008’s not-quite-revolutionary game ...

You’d be forgiven if you assumed Darkspore might be similar to 2008’s Spore; after all, the titles are similar, and both games were created by the same developer. Well, let go of any preconceptions: ...