News

Will Wright Delivers Fascinating Talk About Video Games, Education

If you’ve ever seen Will Wright, the big brain behind games like The Sims, Spore and SimCity, deliver one of his humorous, hypnotising talks, you’re probably going to want to settle in and watch this one too. If you’ve never had the good fortune to be assaulted by Will Wright’s smarts, well, you’re in luck.


March 29, 2011
PC

Grab The Darkspore Beta Through Steam Now

Steam makes it easy to get into the beta program for Maxis’ Spore spin-off Darkspore. Just head to the Steam web site and install. Darkspore was recently delayed until the end of April.


February 15, 2011
PC

Darkspore Splices Fresh DNA Into Online Multiplayer

Spore is an amazing creative experience diluted by a broad gameplay focus. Darkspore has one focus: building a better killing machine. I took my monster squad to task in story mode and player-versus-player combat and lived to tell the tale.


December 2, 2010
News

A Look At Darkspore’s Cooperative Multiplayer

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Electronic Arts is giving us an advanced look at how cooperative play is going to work in upcoming action role-playing game Darkspore.


August 24, 2010

I Played Darkspore And I Loved It

Darkspore is a bit like classic action title Diablo, with a twist: Instead of concentrating on levelling up a single character, you’re working to level up a team of heroes, three of which you bring on every mission.


July 21, 2010

The Darker, More Dramatic Side Of Spore

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Here’s the reveal trailer for Darkspore, the intense, fast-paced action role-playing game set in the colourful, friendly Spore universe.


First Look At Darkspore, EA’s New Sci-fi, Spore-based RPG

The creators of Spore are going to the dark side with an all-new “fast-paced and intense” sci-fi action-role-playing game known as Darkspore, coming to the Mac and PC next year.


July 15, 2010
In Real Life

Will Wright Tells Morgan Freeman About Gods & Sims

Morgan Freeman’s “Through the Wormhole” show on the Science Channel had an interesting guest a few weeks back: Sims creator Will Wright, who was there to talk about video game games, and gods.


July 11, 2010

Comic Con Teases New Spore Game

The programming schedule for San Diego Comic Con reveals a “a brand new, Sci-Fi Action-RPG based on the DNA of Spore.” Rumours and images floating around the Spore forums say the game will be called Darkspore.


June 11, 2010

The Disappearance Of SimCity

What ever happened to the once-mighty SimCity franchise?