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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...