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It's been a long, long time since strategy game players have had a new Sid Meier's Civilization game on their hands. In fact, it's been the better part of a decade; the last one to come out was ...

Civilization 6 has tons of different mods players can try out. Fans of the series will love the changes that these exceptional mods bring. The Founders Edition will only be available until ...

Nobody should envy Firaxis. Once a decade or so, the legendary strategy game developer is asked to reinvent Civilization, a video game series that has been absent of any tangible weak points for ...

All these games have particular qualities, but after several hours playing Civilization 7 it’s hard to imagine that Firaxis and its decades-old series will ever face a serious challenge.

Civilization 7’s greatest moments are those that aren’t planned. When starting our first campaign with the new game, we thought we’d find our feet by setting up a quick cultural victory as a ...

I was 100 turns into Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, when I conquered almost the entire continent that I started on. I began my hands-on preview humbly as Persia in the Antiquity Age before ...

However, in 2018 two University of Cambridge scientists named their paper The Silurian hypothesis: would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?, after the ...