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 ...

On September 7, Electronic Arts will release its long-awaited and much-anticipated Spore. For many, this will be the biggest video game event of the year, and possibly even the last several years.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a bit of a tough sell. Not because a game about the evolution of our species doesn't sound interesting - it does - but because it's hard to imagine such a complex, ...

Spore sold itself as an evolution simulator and delivered a creature creator with no biological constraints whatsoever — which makes the exercise of applying real evolutionary logic to its most iconic ...

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, ...

Taken a stage at a time, the evolution game isn't that rich. But as a whole, it is a well-thought-out work that lives up to the hype. CNET's sister site GameSpot is the world's leading site for video ...

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.

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 ...