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Ed Beach talks rapid-fire when he's dishing details on Gods & Kings, the Civilization V expansion pack that Firaxis announced this morning. I can't blame him. He's got a lot to say. More »
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Developer Firaxis will release an expansion pack for Civilization V this spring, it said today. More »
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A "Game of the Year" edition of Sid Meier's Civilization V, featuring six packs and the digital soundtrack, hits stores on Sept. 27 for $50, 2K Games said this morning. More »
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I don't tend to truly miss many video game studios. Businesses come and go, their developers move on, make new stuff, the world keeps spinning. More »
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So here we are again, folks. Another week, another CivWorld discussion. Hopefully, most of you decided to either play in the new Kotaku game or a public one. Regardless of what game you're playing, I'm sure you all have a lot to say about how the game is treating you. More »
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Welcome everyone to the next edition of the Kotaku Game Club. We're going to do a little experiment this month, playing CivWorld, the sophisticated social version of Sid Meier's Civilization. In case you're new to the group, our mission is to play video games together as a group, discussing the narrative, mechanical and human aspects of a game as we experience it. Every week, there will be a column about the section that we just played, and we'll come together and share our thoughts. To be clear, you guys don't need to respond to the column; everyone can bring their own topics to the table. We'll have an official "meeting" during the hour or so after the post is published, so we can have a real discussion. More »
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Starting from nothing, a computer taught itself to read the instruction manual for Civilization and saw its rate of victory jump from 46 percent to 79 percent. More »
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We gave you a brief rundown on how Civilization World, the upcoming Facebook version of the classic PC strategy series, worked the other day. Now you can see for yourself in this trailer. More »
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Civ World, Sid Meier's attempt to bring the complexities of his long-lived strategy game Civilization to the quick play nature of Facebook, is due to hit the online service this summer, CNN reports. More »
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In The Washington Post's in-depth profile of the alleged source of classified information passed to WikiLeaks, a childhood friend discusses how computer games played a part in introducing Bradley Manning to the world of ideas. More »
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Civilization: The Board Game from Fantasy Flight Games is no mere global Monopoly, no svelte Catan. It is a complicated affair and one that's not so easy to capture on video. More »
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Monica Potts a feminist graduate of an all-girls college that would never take her husband's name or dream of ending her career to raise children. In the Sims 3 she's a married mother that stays home with the kids. More »
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It's funny, for a game based on history and real things, Civilization has always had a strangely fictional unit at its core: the "Settler", who can make towns and later cities just appear. More »
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The opening theme for Civilization IV is the first original composition associated with a video game to be a finalist nominee for a Grammy. The track, "Baba Yetu," is in the "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists" category. More »
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We're surprised it's taken this long, but somebody has finally gotten around to recreating World of Warcraft's land of Azeroth in PC strategy game Civilization V. More »
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Wait...damn, that didn't work so well...as seen on The Daily What. More »
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Exactly a year after rolling out Windows 7 with much fanfare, Microsoft seems to be finally remembering the gamers who help make their platform so popular. More »
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I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Civilization V, but like any game, it wasn't perfect. It was a little buggy, and there were some AI missteps. Hopefully, those two issues will be fixed in the game's first major patch. More »
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It would most definitely not sound like this. More »
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Triple-A games have standards, you know, and Civilization V has made its clear. Not just anything can run 400 turns of this game. So check 'em out to see if your PC measures up when the game hits Sept. 21. More »
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It took StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty just 24 hours to become the best-selling PC game of the year, with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, according to Blizzard Entertainment. More »
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About 20 people were laid-off from Firaxis, the creators of Civilization V, parent company 2K confirmed to Kotaku today. More »
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In a piece over on Wired, Kira Greer speaks publicly about the depths of her obsession with Farmville. It makes her sound like a nutter, yes, but it also makes her sound like someone in need of something better. More »
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In 1998, Stanford University's Henry Lowood began preserving video games and video game artifacts. Lowood, along with a four member committee, has announced a game canon, for the Library of Congress. Japan begs to differ. More »
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As heard on Kotaku Talk Radio. More »
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Civilization creator Sid Meier was our guest for Kotaku Talk Radio this week. You can listen to the full episode now or download it for posterity. So many topics. Did you know Meier wishes he made Tetris and Guitar Hero? More »
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OK, maybe Sid Meier isn't the father of strategy games, but he's most certainly the father of Civilization and he's here now to answer your questions on Kotaku Talk Radio. More »
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Kotaku Talk Radio will be recording live from CBS Radio on Wednesday. 11am Kotaku Time. 1pm ET. 10am PT. Hosts: Crecente and me. Guest: Sid Meier. Call-in and live-streaming details will be on Kotaku at showtime. Join us! More »
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All Sid Meier ever did for video games was create Civilization. Oh, we think that merits a podcast red carpet! The legendary designer will be our guest on Kotaku Talk Radio this week. Get ready to call in on Wednesday. More »
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I love Sid Meier. Not just because he's a great game designer, but because he's a generally smart guy, as evidenced in this interview with IndustryGamers in which he talks "social" gaming in terms you should all understand. More »
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Here's an inspiring way to start your day, as Civilization co-creator Sid Meier builds a video game in under 48 hours. More »
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David Wildgoose, Editor of Kotaku Australia, now finds that the Civilization franchise has a much greater, personal significance than it did a month ago. More »
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Firaxis Games co-founder and Civilization creator Sid Meier expanded the minds of GDC attendees by talking about the psychology of game design and breaking some bad news to us. Everything we know, Meier argues, is wrong. More »
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While there's trepidation amongst many gamers as to the potential for "proper" Facebook games, there's one series that was born for the social network platform: Civilization. Which is coming to Facebook, and whose beta will open in five month's time. More »
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Sid Meier, the legendary creator of the Civilization franchise, has been tapped to deliver the opening keynote address at the 2010 Game Developers Conference, which means this could be the most addictive opening keynote speech ever delivered. More »
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Sid Meier is taking two of the most addictive games ever created - Civilization and Facebook - and melding them into one. Today he announced Civilization Network, coming to Facebook in 2010. More »
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Just as we were wondering why Apple's touch-screen platform is so lacking in strategy games comes the weekend release by 2K of an iPhone version of Civilization Revolution. More »
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I'm usually OK with soundtracks as long as they don't actively annoy me; of course, it's nice when they do something more than just provide not-too-irritating background noise I may or may not turn off. Douglas Wilson looks at the relationship between gameplay, music, and meaning (and what makes for a 'musical' game) over at GameSetWatch, picking a perhaps unlikely example to illustrate the relationship he's talking about: Civilization IV. After explaining precisely what he's getting at, Wilson opines: More »
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With the discussion generated by 'what I learned by not playing Civilization,', I thought L.B. Jeffries' thoughts on creating a 'universal model' for games was pretty interesting. Part of the issue is convergence — 'pure' games are hard to find, and more and more incorporate various design strategies and elements. Would it be impossible to design a game that would appeal to a really diverse swath of players? Players that are sometimes playing entirely different kinds of games? Refinement is key: More »
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The August '08 Blogs of the Round Table is up, with the subject being what positive lessons writers have learned from video games. It's a diverse crop as usual, and Chris Bateman at Only a Game looks at what he learned by not playing a game: Civilization in this case, or any Sid Meier game, for that matter. And what did Bateman learn from not playing? Well, a few lessons on the audience for games in general: More »
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