This week I was selected to come down to the EA Maxis studio in California to take a look at their forthcoming game, Darkspore. Originally, I was hesitant about the trip. I haven't been terribly ...
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 ...
UPDATE 2: Darkspore has returned to Steam. There it is, available to buy, for £15. UPDATE 1: EA has responded to the Darkspore crisis, by stating on the game's ...
[Update: After some public outcry, some server issues have been fixed and the game is available again on Steam. Purchase with caution] The short end of the story is pretty obvious: Darkspore is ...
It's hard to shift the cynical feeling that Darkspore, Maxis' action RPG, is more about finding a way to recycle the no-doubt expensive character-editing tech created for the divisive oddity Spore ...
Originality is sadly no guarantee of gaming quality. 2009's Spore is a great example. The concept – create and mould lifeforms and take them from ocean floor to universe – was a world away from the ...
GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. 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 ...
Darkspore hasn’t been an easy game to review, not least because its requirement for an always-online internet connection (even in singleplayer) has suffered interference from the office firewalls and ...
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