The game has plenty of characters but no plot — in fact, there isn’t even a story line to go with it.

Nevertheless, 20th Century Fox has obtained the rights to the 2008 god-game “Spore” and threatens to produce a feature-length film with…

Talk about crowded! The massively single-player metaverse known as “Spore” today welcome its 100 millionth creation since launching the “Creature Creator” last June.

That’s not 100 million different improvised critters; developer Maxis and publisher Electronic Arts are counting all the ears, noses,…

If you’re looking for something special in your “Spore” environment, MaxisCactus out of Electronic Arts’ Maxis studio has concocted Spore characters that strongly resemble the four candidates stumping in this year’s presidential campaign.

They are, in the image, from the right, Joe Biden,…

Game distributor Electronic Arts has made available a patch for the massive single-player god-game “Spore” to fix a few bugs, fine-tune the game play and add function to the Sporeopedia library.

Those who installed the EA Download Manager when they first obtained the…

“Spore,” the massively popular single-player god game, just keeps getting bigger, literally as well as figuratively.

Game publisher Electronic Arts plans to release an expansion called the “Creepy & Cute Parts Pack,” containing about 100 parts that can be added to whatever you’re…

The king of small-time video is taking a big-time step into video game marketing.

Google-owned YouTube has added e-commerce to its inventory, an announcement on Google said Tuesday, with such things as music, movies, TV programs, books, concert tickets and, yes, video…

A lot of folks have come down hard on “Spore” as a game, saying it isn’t the wonder-title some had hoped. But Forbes magazine describes “Spore” as a rich target for piracy.

Apparently, the download restrictions installed by distributor Electronic Arts…

Has the nation’s glum economy jammed a needle into the video game industry’s constantly expanding sales?

You might think growth of 9 percent over the previous month’s sales figures is still reason to celebrate. In the 21st century, however, anything less than double-digit…

The greatest game ever, some say, is available now — almost two weeks before its scheduled release.

But don’t think you can actually play it yet.

Game publisher Electronic Arts says it has started allowing early loads of the massively single-player real-time…

“Spore Creature Creator”
Genre: God game, life simulation
Developer: Maxis
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platforms: PC, Mac
Price: $9.99 (A smaller trial is free to download)
ESRB rating: E (everyone)
Grade: A

Apologies for going silent here the past couple of days, but Game Guy has been wading pretty deep into “Spore” Creature Creator.

And if he…