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magisterrex Retro Game of the Week: Sid Meier's Civilization (1991)

20 Nov 2009 12:19:11 PST

Written by magisterrex
This game has not only stood the test of time, it has spawned many sequels: Civilization II, III, and IV, CivNet (the first multiplayer Civilization), Civilization Gold, and Civilization Revolution, as well as many similarly-themed games, such as Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, Civiliz...

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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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Civilization news and blogs - November 22, 2009

22 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.

• Eurogamer.net about eRepublik -- by playerepublik from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Thoughts on climate change ‘religion’: A brief look at the historical development of state power, religion and civilization -- by al-Husayn from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Detroit and Babylon -- by geopolicraticus from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Addendum on Incommensurable Civilizations -- by geopolicraticus from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• ประวัติศาสตร์และอารยธรรมโลก -- by SoClaimon from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• The Incommensurability of Civilizations -- by geopolicraticus from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• It's a WonderFull Race -- by The RSVP Network from civilization « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• 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

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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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Clash of Cultures:: Reviews:: Prototype Review

23 Jun 2009 14:14:19 PDT

Written 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...

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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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Endgame: Civilization -8, Nature 0

27 Nov 2008 21:31:06 PST

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...

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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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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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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword - Patch v3.17

23 Jun 2008 01:48:46 PDT

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

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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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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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