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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Has any single videogame been so relentlessly hyped prior to its release as Spore, the latest brainchild of SimCity creator Will Wright? This game has been in the news for years because of its raw ...

Spore is a game about evolution, but evolution that's intelligently designed by the choices you make. Players design their creatures' traits, and those traits ultimately influence the civilization.

Spore is the highly-anticipated new life simulator from game designer Will Wright, creator of the popular SimCity and The Sims ( ). Spore boldly strives to allow the player to mold not only a creature ...

Fortunately, Star Trek came up with a solution… one that, we now know, has created yet more problems. The end of Star Trek: ...

This protocol describes a method combining phase-contrast and fluorescence microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and optical tweezers to characterize the germination of single bacterial spores. The ...

But with so much here, it is unsurprising that there are a few flaws. The graphics, while a long way from poor, don’t hit the heights that we could have hoped for. Some weird designs will break 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 ...