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Civilization: Revolution Website Launches
Sid Meier's world building game Civilization is returning soon with a new title, Civilization: Revolution. CR is the first of the Civ franchise to be presented on now-gen consoles and it sports some fancy new graphics, closer cameras, new character models and more detailed maps and battles. After my time with the multiplayer mode a few weeks back, I'm really looking forward to checking it our when it hits on June 3.
For those interested in such micromanaging pursuits can check out everything the game has to offer on Civilization: Revolution's newly launched website. It's a nicely put together site and has a decent amount of places for you to explore including videos, screenshots, forums and all the information on Civilization: Revolution you could want.
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Gallery: Civilization Revolution
Ladies and gentlemen, for your viewing pleasure, I present a slew of screens from my hands-on time with Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. There are some multiplayer shots in here as well as images from the single player mode including many of the character designs.
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Sid Meier - Gaming's Three Greatest Innovations
The gaming industry is based on innovation, with each successive generation absorbing new, innovative ideas, making them a part of what gaming is today. At a special lunch last Friday at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, industry legend Sid Meier revealed what he thought to be the three greatest innovations in gaming history. His picks? First off, the IBM personal computer, which brought computing and as a result computer gaming to the masses. Next he citied video games that focus on creating rather than destroying, humbly offering Will Wright's Sim City as an example in lieu of his own Civilization. Finally, Nintendo's Seal of Quality...which might not mean much today, but back in the day was a sign that the industry wasn't going to allow the flood of crap that systems like the Atari 2600 were subject to, changing the face of console gaming forever and effectively revitalizing a briefly dead market. Profound choices from a profound voice in the business. How do your picks stack up?
The Three Most Important Moments In Gaming, And Other Lessons From Sid Meier [MTV News]
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A Chat with Sid Meier
We tried, at this year's GDC, to have a quiet sit down with a number of different developers. And for a number of different reasons, many of them fell through, but I was able to beg 2K into giving me 15 minutes with one of the developers who probably most adversely effected my college career: Sid Meier. If it weren't for Civilization it probably wouldn't have taken me six years to get my two bachelors degrees... OK, that's probably not true, but I did spend a shocking amount of time playing his games in college.
In this 15 minute chat we talk about the death of the PC gaming market, how GDC has evolved and what type of character he plays in WoW... among other things.
9:01 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Brian Crecente
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Latest by thenino85: I hope you behaved yourself, Brian. Can't listen to it where I am. What class does he play? more »
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The Sid Meier Q&A
"One thing that stands in my mind...we got an inquiry from the Wall Street journal asking about succinctly captured tax policy," Sid Meier relates to a packed audience of GDC attendees, referring to the most surprising response to his games. "It's just a slider."
Huge laughs from the audience. Damn there are a lot of dorks in the audience...present company included. Through the hour-long interview, Meier divulged all sorts of not-so-secret secrets, admitting his geek fetish of still programming his own titles. Here were some of our favorite things he said, organized for your easy digestion...
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11:00 AM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Mark Wilson
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First Screens Of Civilization Revolution For Nintendo DS
Before Sid Meier goes massively multiplayer, he and the rest of the Civ team are bringing the Civilization series to the non-PC gaming masses. While the Wii version looks to have stalled, the Nintendo DS version is looking like a perfect it. 2K Games released a handful of new screens for the portable version of Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution and a singular piece of shiny artwork. This is the kind of handheld strategy gaming we can get behind.
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Sid Meier Considering MMO
The man who brought you Civilization, Pirates!, and Railroads! is looking to capture a larger audience - all at once. Speaking to GamersGlobal, the legendary Sid Meier considers the possibility of stepping into the massively multiplayer realm of online gaming.
I enjoy the idea of doing something I haven't done before, so a MMO would fit perfectly, but I really can't say if that would be the next game we do or if it's still a couple of games down the road before we come to that. Because I have new single player games I want to do, as well.While the rest of the interview mainly deals with the upcoming Civilization Revolution, I found myself stuck musing on what Meier would bring to the MMO genre - other than a giant, persistent-world Civilization, of course. I'd suggest a Pirate MMO, but Flying Lab more or less just released Pirates! Online.
Sid Meier on Civilization Revolution and his next plans [GamersGlobal via EuroGamer]
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Clip: Civilization Revolution
Sid Meier's Civilization is leaving the nest of computer gaming and flying off to consoles and handhelds in September 2008. The first look at the game is in this video which is narrated by none other by Henry Rollins (who I secretly fantasize to use all of his Civ money to fund "science" and "the arts"). The trailer for the upcoming game shows the same basic premise as previous versions before it. Steal some land, garden some corn, tell other leaders with gifts to take a hike. It's astonishing close to most people's daily lives.
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Sid Meier Loves The PS3
The creator of timeless hits Civilization and Railroad Tycoon, Sid Meier is, somewhat surprisingly, a PlayStation fan. Maybe even bordering on fanboy, if the editorial on PlayStation.com is an accurate take on Sid's gaming tastes. More »
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Dani Bunten To Enter AIAS Hall of Fame
One of the more colorful characters from the early days of Electronic Arts, Dani Bunten is to be posthumously inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame during the D.I.C.E. Summit early next month. Bunten is responsible for some of the greatest early computer games, including the legendary M.U.L.E. While she started life as Dan Bunten, her gender was transcended by her mastery of game design. Speaking with GameSpot, Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins had nothing but praise for Bunten."Dani was a great leader and source of inspiration that we will never forget. Dani's selection for the Hall says something very positive and very important about how influential Dani was as a thinker and designer and how that leadership inspired so many others."
Sid Meier will be accepting the award for Bunten, who passed away in 1998 at the age of 49. GameSpot has audio reactions from Will Wright and AIAS president Joseph Olin, and I have included a link to her Wikipedia entry so those unfamiliar can learn more. A richly deserved honor for a true master of game design. More »
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Sid Meier's Favorite Word Is "Fun"
When computer games and video games collide! Legendary PC game designer Sid Meier is thinking about bringing Civilization to the Nintendo DS. He says, "If we can deliver a fun experience to the players on the DS, then we'll do it." While the ill-fated N-Gage saw a version of Civilization II, Meier wasn't directly involved as the title was licensed out by Atari. He's currently busying himself with a PSP version of Pirates, which he compares to the PC/Xbox version and says "is "looking to be a really fun game." What about the new machines, Sid? More »
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Railroad Tycoon For Free
Sure, it may be sixteen years old, but you're not going to look FREE in the face and deny it, are you? More »
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Arrrrr Pirates Be Coming To PSP
Take-Two isn't really talking details yet, but they're bringing Sid Meier's Pirates to the Playstation Portable. More »
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2K Games Goes Steam
2K Games have announced that four of their games are being pushed onto Steam. The games are Sid Meier's Pirates!, Civilization III, Civilization IV and Shattered Union. More »
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Ultimate Civilization Collector's Pack Announced
I'm not a huge fan of collector's editions. Usually they seem to be just some extra art, maybe a book, a DVD of stuff you don't care about. But I can actually see some real value in the Civilization Collector's Edition that Take-Two just announced. More »
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Civilization 4 Comes Out for OS X
There probably aren't too many Mac gamers here, but I've been eagerly awaiting a Mac port of Civilization 4 — a game, alongside of Nethack, I could spend practically the rest of my life idly playing in between writing posts — so I'm pleased to see that it's now finally available for anyone using OSX. More »
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