A much-anticipated commercial computer game about evolution is getting a favorable response from some scholars, who welcome its interactive, engaging approach to the topic even though a few of its ...

The Understanding Evolution Web site launched in 2004 in response to the need among schoolteachers for resources to help teach evolution. Before long, however, two interesting factors emerged. One was ...

The legendary game designer talks about the evolution of his new evolution game and how to "make the creation process fun." On September 7, Electronic Arts will release its long-awaited and ...

Electronic Arts is quickly building a new franchise out of SimCity creator Will Wright’s newest game, Spore. Even before the game was available for the Mac and PC, Spore Origins debuted for the iPod.

Cameron Lucas is a writer who has been dedicated to the medium for over four years, and an avid player of video games for all of his life. After the better part of a year at Game Rant as a feature ...

Even with the modest selection of parts available in the cell stage, there are nearly limitless options for your creature creation. So while what you create is ultimately up to your personal tastes, ...

Alright, so "creature creation" for the civilization stage is a bit of a misnomer as you don't actually customize your creatures here. Rather, you only need to worry about designing the look of your ...

On Sept. 7, you can start evolving life from scratch. Will Wright’s highly anticipated game about nurturing a single-cell organism will go on sale in early September and will be available for PC, Mac, ...

Will Wright is one of just a handful of celebrities in the world of computer-game design. Like his contemporaries Shigeru Miyamoto (the Mario series) and Sid Meier (Civilization), he has a level of ...

Part two dives deeper into Spore’s bizarre lifeforms, adaptations and evolutionary ideas. Boy, 11, graduates from college—these are the early signs his mom dismissed Hurricane forecasters watch ...

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 ...

The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...