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Civilization: a Rope or a Broom?

04 Nov 2009 22:59:15 PST

Written by geopolicraticus
I don’t know much about Peruvian civilization, and now that I think of it I feel the lack of my knowledge. I do not know the extent to which Peruvian civilization, rich as its history is, constitutes a changing continuity as in Western history, and to what extent it involves relatively isola...

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Your Direct2Drive bestselling titles are...

03 Nov 2009 19:25:00 PST

1 Borderlands 2K Games 4 Torchlight Runic Games 7 Civilization 4: The Complete Edition 2K Games 8 Aion NCSoft 9 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Halloween Promo) Activision

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Least secure Stronghold ever, now available

28 Oct 2009 11:33:00 PDT

NEWS - 2K Games announced that the Stronghold Collection is now available for windows PCs in North America for the retail price of $29.99. The collection includes Stronghold, Stronghold 2, Stronghold Crusader, Stronghold Crusader Extreme, and Stronghold Legends. What the collection d...

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Civilization Series Comes to Facebook

22 Oct 2009 15:01:02 PDT

Written by Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu)
It's been a while since the venerable Civilization series made headlines. The most recent release has been that of Civilization Revolution, which brought the unique mechanics of 4X turn-based world domination to handhelds to some success.

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The Maya 'Did It to Themselves'

08 Oct 2009 02:54:00 PDT

Written by Softpedia News (Tudor Vieru)
Central America was home to the Maya Civilization for more than 1,200 years. A vibrant culture, the Mayans lived in cities so densely packed, that they resembled modern-day metropolises such as Los Angeles. The civilization peaked around 900 AD, when everything seemed to be going well. Al...

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Review: Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age:: I never thought I'd play Civilization with my kids!

02 Oct 2009 07:49:23 PDT

Written 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...

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Civilization news and blogs - November 08, 2009

08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Civilization news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Knowledge, Love, and Civilization -- by Andrew Kern from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Review: Rise of Empires:: A Good area control game, but with little "civ" feel. -- by victoryzine from Recent additions | BoardGameGeek
• Review: Endeavor:: Endeavor - As Close to Perfection as I Have Ever Seen -- by Al Johnson from Recent additions | BoardGameGeek
• Review: Galaxy Trucker:: Blowing things up - sometimes even intentionally... -- by huber from Recent additions | BoardGameGeek
• Links and Tweets of the Week: October 24, 2009 -- from Dave Pollard: Environment
• Huntington Revisited: The Western/Islamic Fault Line -- by wadatripp from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• On Behalf of the Barbarians -- by toutniquer from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Civilization conquers facebook -- by mindseeker from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• On Civilization and Facebook... -- by greyprince from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Civbook -- by hootymcboob from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed

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Review: Peloponnes:: Peloponnes: Greece on 45 Minutes a Game

27 Sep 2009 10:31:54 PDT

Written by Larry Levy
That doesn’t mean that clever designers have given up the quest for a scaled down Civ game. The recent trend is for much lighter games with a Civ theme that can be played in less than an hour. These are designs that Mike Siggins calls “super fillers”, which give you some pretty impressive gamep...

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Defense Grid: The Awakening coming to XBLM this summer

24 Jul 2009 21:14:00 PDT

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...

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Review: Halo Wars

22 Mar 2009 04:59:50 PDT

I'll exclude the excellent Sid Meier's Civilization: Revolution, only because it's turn-based.) The story of Halo Wars revolves around a series of battles that happened 20 years prior to the events in Halo: Combat Evolved, the first game in the Halo ...

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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization v1.01f Patch

11 Mar 2009 15:21:07 PDT

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 ...

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Opinion: Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization - Worth Every Dime.

18 Oct 2008 20:52:33 PDT

Written 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.

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Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame - Big Review of Sid Meier's Civ

25 Jul 2008 02:10:33 PDT

Written 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.

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Opinion: Civilization - So you want to play Civilization...

11 Jul 2008 22:06:16 PDT

Written 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...

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Podcast: Digital Crack Report for 7/8/2008

10 Jul 2008 04:42:00 PDT

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...

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Civilization IV Beyond the Sword PATCH v3 17 + No-DVD Fixed EXE (3S/2L)

03 Jul 2008 01:08:38 PDT

1. Unpack release. 2. Install update. 3. Copy cracked exe to install dir 4. Enjoy! ;)

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Civilization IV Beyond the Sword PATCH v3.17 [MULTI5] i + No-DVD Fixed EXE [1/5]

01 Jul 2008 17:17:03 PDT

Bit Torrent details:Category: Games Original site: http://www.mininova.org/ Size: 177.68 MB, in 3 files Seeds: 1 - Leechers: 5 - Downloads: 0 Description: N/A

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Podcast: How the Reformation Saved Western Civilization

13 Jun 2008 12:41:12 PDT

Written by Neiswonger
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Civilization IV on Linux, Updated How-to

25 Oct 2007 01:00:00 PDT

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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Civilization IV on Linux, Updated How-to

24 Oct 2007 15:48:44 PDT

tombuntu: 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. Advertisement: ....

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Civilization IV on Linux, Updated How-to

24 Oct 2007 11:28:16 PDT

Written by srlinuxx
tombuntu: 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. Advertisement:. read more.

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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword v3.13 Patch

05 Oct 2007 00:10:29 PDT

Lots of gameplay tweaks, bugfixes and enhancements.

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Civilization IV Warlords v2.13 Patch [3/0]

23 Jul 2007 12:44:11 PDT

Bit Torrent details:Category: Apps Original site: http://www.gameupdates.org/ Size: 80.92 MB, in 1 files Seeds: 3 Leechers: 0 Downloads: 29 Description: Gameupdates.org - Demos, patches mods

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How To: Civilization IV Cheats - Civilization IV PC Cheat Codes

26 Mar 2006 00:32:58 PST

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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IMG Podcast Episode 3

31 Oct 2005 22:34:19 PST

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Announced, Aspyr Announces Civilization III: Complete and IV, Feral Announces Black and White 2, 2006 Walk of Game Contest Ends, Myst V Soundtrack Released, Peter Jackson Unhappy with Lord of the Rings Games

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Podcast: Gaming Steve Episode 13 - 05.24.2005

24 May 2005 21:00:00 PDT

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...

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