Spore is unequivocally the greatest god game I've ever played, and I'll say it with my whole simulation-loving heart. Maxis, the genius developer behind The Sims, created its unique real-time strategy ...

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 ...

When Will Wright was developing Spore, his much acclaimed computer game, he interviewed several life scientists. He asked them how nature had actually done what he was attempting to simulate in the ...

It's a bit surprising that more studios haven't picked up where Spore left off in the many years between now and its 2008 launch. While games like Bugsnax and No Man's Sky offer up similarly bizarre ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Some expansion packs offer more of the same, but Spore Galactic Adventures is not one of them. In fact, it adds an entirely new facet of gameplay to ...

The release of Helldivers 2's Into the Unjust update introduces a variety of new features: challenging new enemies like burrowing Rupture variants, the devious Dragonroach, and the nigh-unkillable ...