Civilization

By geopolicraticus There is a dialectic in Western history, like an aesthetic parallel to eros and thanatos: an age of great aesthetic achievement is followed by a age of iconoclasm when the productions of the previous age of systematically destroyed with a greater or lesser degree of violence and ferocit...

NEWS - Ubisoft just opened the beta for Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom. The Settlers series is huge in Germany and Bruce Shelley, one of Sid Meier's cohorts from the Civilization days, is helping Ubisoft out with Paths to a Kingdom. Shelley wants to introduce American gamers to the strategy s...

By Patrice Ayme CIVILIZATION: DON’T LIVE HOME WITHOUT IT. This is the lesson for Haiti, and the rest of the world. (Building codes are also insufficient in Europe, where vicious quakes, complete with giant tsunamis have struck, even in the recent past, namely the 20C, for example in France (Aix quake) and...

By olivergodfreed His label of “Civilization Like Web Based Games” is interesting to me. That’s a pretty unwieldy name for a genre. The more technical name would probably be Browser Based Massive Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy Games, which is also quite cumbersome, and thus I shorten it to OSG!

By Sandy Petersen CONCLUSION - I will probably end up playing this game about once a year; as often as I play Here I Stand and Civilization, and for similar reasons. They're long and complex, and require a major committment from my fellow players. Sometimes that's not what I want in a simple multiplayer boardg...

By Logoth I can see even after the Simple game, that this is going to definately satisfy my Civ itch. I can already see some combinations that work well together (Michaelangelo/St. Peter's Basilica anyone?).

By branwheat Gameplay Despite the lack of components (the worst wooden pieces I've ever used!) and the uselessness of the "Simple" game as a full game session, I can see the potential of the Advanced and Full game options. My friends and I are big Civilization fans and we could see that with the addition o...

GZO: Video games of the decade, Nos. 11-25 blog) Civilization IV (2K Games, PC, 2005): It's physically impossible to play this strategy game in sittings of less than four hours. 19. ... and more »

Gamasutra Group's like Electronic Arts' EA 2D will become less of an anomaly, and products like Sid Meier's Civilization Network will show us the way that a lot of ... NetworkWorld.com all 5 news articles »

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By victoryzine It has, in all honestly, very little civilization feeeling to it. I'd say it SoE with a civ touch to it. But it's not like I feel that I don't need to look for any Civ games anymore. The Idea of removing half your cubes from the board doesn't make sense to me in a Civ game. But I guess Martin wanted to sho...

By craniac As we finished, Joey came upstairs and saw us ending our game and demanded that I play a game with him. I told him it would have to wait until the morning, so at 7:30 this morning as I staggered out of bed we began another game. Joey didn't totally understand the relationship between goods and coi...

For those unfamiliar with the game, Defense Grid uses the same engine as games like Oblivion and Civilization IV, and features a lengthy campaign (with around 12 hours of content), 24 different environments including 4 Borderlands maps, 10 tower types, 15 different enemies, and over 1...

By Lowengrin Secondly, I dislike the locomotive level "track". Martin Wallace's Automobile has authentic cars on it's track, Sid Meier's game used train images, so why couldn't the locomotive track have trains? It's not like it hasn't been done before. Here: And here:

By Asperamanca I've always loved Civ games. Civilization brought me to board games. Vinci promised to be in the same vein, but left me unsatisfied. I've read about Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame and Tempus, and decided they were not for me. Antike scratched the expansion and conquest itch, but fel...

By citylife In my opinion Civilization or more regularly Advanced Civ (hereafter referred to as Civ)is an icon in the strategy gaming world, a precursor of good eurogaming, and something like a pilgrimage for the gamer. Every play of Advanced Civ represents a special moment when all those factors co...

 UK Firaxis Games has issued a new patch for Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization, updating to v1.01f the latest installment in the Civilization IV series (press 'read more' for changelog). In Colonization, players lead one of four European nations on ...

By BrenoK So, what is it about? Advanced Civilization is pretty much a game of negotiation and logistics. You move your pieces around in order to build cities and thus be able to draw more cards and, after trading, be able to buy technologies (VPs). That's the essence of it. There's more added to it, of co...

By Blackfaer For those unfamiliar with the game, it was developed by a few of the members of the team working on Civilization IV computer games, and was loosely based on the computer game. Civilization IV is one of the more complex computer games out there, so obviously it's pared down to the essentials.

That's easier said than done, however. When virtually everyone you talk with thinks we will solve these problems, or doesn't believe these problems are even real, remaining utterly convinced that the first truly global civilization, the most powerful civilization in our planet's his...

By Kenneth England Following up on the successful release of Civilization: Revolutions comes another installment in the Civ IV line, Colonization.  This game presents a more focused vision than the typical Civilization game, specifically tasking the player with assuming the role of one of the European...

By baymonkey Through the Ages hits a spot for me as only this game does. Many comparisons can and should be made to the computer game franchise Civilization, and they should be because any fan of that wonderful series will find many similarities in this boardgame and some clear differences.

By Tom Chick Somewhere between Civilization III and Civilization IV, revolutionary game designer Soren Johnson tore down and rebuilt founding father Sid Meier's beloved strategy series. The results were pretty darn glorious: Civ 4 was a streamlined thing of beauty, equally sleek and epic. Now, th...

By rnijholt The available governments and religions are a very nice addition. It forces the players to contemplate if the time is right to switch their government, for instance from Monarchy to Republic, which gives double cash for each city or village. Players must weigh the advantages of another go...

By CincauHangus Sid Meier’s Civilization IV No-CD No-DVD Fixed-EXE Fixed-Image Patch 1.7.4.0; Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Warlords No-CD No-DVD Fixed-EXE Fixed-Image Patch 2.13; Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword No-CD No-DVD Fixed-EXE ...

By Kenneth England Civilization Revolution is the type of game that takes a little while to get in your system, but once it does it is very addicting and hard to put down. The flaws are apparent, but are vastly outweighed by the well-done elements of the game and it’s near-perfect graphical presentation of the...

By sbarrera The game follows the basic outline of any civilization game. You move stuff on the board, maybe you fight some battles, you get money, and you build stuff and buy technology. Technology determines capabilities like how big you can make your cities, or what military units you can build.

In the 'Interview' (03m24s), we speak with recent Novice play champion Ken 'Carch' Baudicher about the Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword Tri-League Tournament in the first of a two-part interview. Over in the 'News' (13m21s) Six is the number of first patch previews for the stand-alone...

By sbarrera Another interesting balance is the one between population and taxation. The same counters are used to represent people and money (they are flipped over when cities are taxed). It is necessary to manage this counter supply well, because you need population on the map to support your cities...

NEWS - Here's the late record of this week's Digital Crack Report, our weekly segment on CD101.  This week I talk about Beijing 2008, Civilization: Revolutions, and the Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament III for the with the new look CD101 morning team.  Also note that I once again have to...

By RawmeatCowboy While it won’t be winning any beauty contests with its barebones 2D graphics, the play’s the thing and the combination of solid controls and lots of content in the form of the technologies, units and variegated civilizations make Civ ...

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 Germany - Firaxis hat einen neuen Patch für Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword veröffentlicht. Dieser aktualisiert die Erweiterung auf Version 3.17, behebt dabei ...

By Neiswonger link to Audio) Christopher Neiswonger How the Reformation Saved Western Civilization (link to Audio) How the Reformation Saved Western Civ

By Pum_ I really really like the Francis Tresham's original Civilization game. In fact my only problem with it is the length of time it takes to play - other than that it's brilliant! After reading about TtA I have been eagerly waiting to get this game for about a year. I got the impression that TtA woul...

This is the second edition of my Civilization IV (Civ 4) on Linux how-to. With this guide you can run Civ 4 almost flawlessly on Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution using Wine. At the time when Civ 4 was released, DirectX 9 was not ...

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Cristo Redentor allows 1 turn between civics changes, not zero turns. Attack Sub: 30 strength, 7 moves, 180 cost Destroyers also upgrade to Missile Cruisers Customs House and Feitoria give +100% Foreign trade route income Reduced ...

By Shawn Sines Gamasutra Talks Games with GalCiv Creators; Galactic Assault: Prisoner of Power Screens; Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword Demo; RedSpotGames Announces Two New Dreamcast Titles; Civ IV: Beyond the Sword Coming July 23.

By mbtigger Activision and Avalon Hill ended up having to stop production of Civilization games and pay damages to Microprose. A few years later Hasbro gobbled up Avalon Hill AND the remains of Microprose. But then they sold their computer division to Infogrames.

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This patch includes several bug fixes and implements game limits for multiplayer tournaments.

The scenario has you taking on a planet full of human robots that have transformed into malformed beasts. You're sent in to grab some lost research. It is, as McCracken puts it, a Civilization with no leaders, no cities, no technologies. It is Afterworld.

Cheats and codes for the popular Civilization IV PC video game. Here you will find how to enable cheats in Civilization IV, as well as many cheat hot keys and debug codes for the game.

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I wrap up the various games I saw at E3 this year.GameTalk: Who "won" and "lost" at E3?SporeTalk: Part one of my interview with Will Wright (Warning: This is pretty hard to understand, but the transcript is in this post as well).In-depth review of Guild Wars for the PC.RetroReview: Civilizat...