Earlier this month, we reported that there would be an action-RPG game in the Spore franchise revealed at Comic-Con 2010. That game, Darkspore, was announced earlier this week at Electronic Arts' ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Though it may share the same name as 2008's Spore, Darkspore couldn't be more different from developer Maxis' all-encompassing strategy game. This ...

Darkspore's been introduced to us as "Spore meets Diablo," and seeing it in action reinforces that early pitch -- the game has six abilities on a bar across the bottom, and health and mana bars on ...

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 ...

REDWOOD CITY – Will Wright's out-of-the-box Spore is now the inspiration for a more traditional game experience. At a media event Tuesday morning, Electronic Arts unveiled the next game from Maxis, ...

Maxis is a studio known for creating a host of PC gaming's greatest hits, so I was understandably excited when I got a chance to see their newest project. I was expecting something tactical, something ...

Amid widespread complaints of issues connecting to Darkspore, the EA Maxis title has been withdrawn from sale on Steam. PlayerAttack reports players began experiencing issues with Darkspore's DRM over ...

Maxis -- the studio behind massive hits like Sim City and The Sims -- has been on something of a downward trend over the last few years. Mind you, when you've created the top-selling PC game of all ...

I was in the beta for about a week and just started the retail version this week. The write-up below is from memory (at work right now...). The game is a Diablo clone + limited Spore editor with some ...

While the genre is traditionally steeped in fantasy, Maxis' latest takes a more contemporary approach in its setting. Akin to recent blockbuster sci-fi franchises, Darkspore arrives with a fully ...

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 ...