If you wandered into Thursday night’s launch party for Electronic Arts’ new Spore game, you would have found yourself inside a planetarium listening to a lecture by an astrophysicist. Or you might ...

Will Wright's latest video game, "Spore," fails to live up to the standards set by his earlier games, such as "SimCity" and "The Sims." While the other games embrace casual play by allowing players to ...

A team of scientists have discovered how cells in deep lethargy decide while they sleep whether or not to return to life. The discovery, published in Science, offers lessons for understanding life in ...

Bacterial spores can survive for years, even centuries, without nutrients, resisting heat, UV radiation, and antibiotics. How inert, sleeping bacteria -- or spores -- spring back to life has been a ...

Spore, the upcoming 6+-years-in-the-making project from Will Wright (Sim City, The Sims, and Sim everything else) is releasing its fabulous alien species design tool, the Creator Creator today as a ...

Spore is the highly-anticipated new life simulator from game designer Will Wright, creator of the popular SimCity and The Sims ( ). Spore boldly strives to allow the player to mold not only a creature ...

Retailers have a long tradition of jumping the gun on publishers' product announcements, putting up listings and soliciting preorders for games that haven't yet been confirmed to exist. While these ...