Maxis-developed action RPG Darkspore is shutting down for good as of next week, ending the game's five-year run. The titles in our list of the best free games on PC haven't been shut down yet, so ...

Maxis-developed action RPG Darkspore is no longer available on the Steam store following months of server issues that made the game unplayable. This has proved to be a long-standing issue for the game ...

Darkspore will go, uh, dark next week. Darkspore, the oft-forgotten Diablo-esque spin off of Maxis' polarising artificial life sim Spore, will soon become unplayable. This state of affairs is the ...

Electronic Arts' Darkspore has been removed from Steam, likely due to server-related issues that make it unplayable. The top-down action RPG, which requires an always-on connection, has suffered from ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Darkspore is the next game from EA's Emeryville-based Maxis studio, the creator of Spore, and it's being built on that game's technology but as a hack ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today EA and Maxis have announced some exciting pre-release initiatives for Darkspore, the upcoming online Action RPG launching on PC in February 2011. Gamers who pre-order the Limited Edition of ...

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, ...

If Diablo and Pokemon had a baby with Spore as the midwife, you'd ... well, you'd probably be scarred for life if you looked directly at it. But you'd also end up with Darkspore. This sci-fi themed ...

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 ...