Can you remember the first time you played a Civilization game, and what it was that got you hooked? Was it the exploration? Empire management? Warfare? Without a doubt this 4X series is a cornerstone ...

A simplified version of a Civilization game has always struck me as an oxymoron. Taking Firaxis’ famously addictive turn-based strategy series about guiding a nation from cavedwellers to spacefarers ...

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If the world’s remaining three superpowers stay locked in eternal struggle after a cataclysmic nuclear war, what would it look like? Reddit user Lycerius paints a bleakly nihilist answer via an ...

I’ll spare you prolix paragraphs of sentimental Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri gushing and say just this: I loved it, you loved it, who didn’t love it? It’s probably the apotheosis of the Civilization ...

An empire built on word of mouth. Brian Reynolds remembers when Sid Meier gave him a copy of Civilization. “I played until 2am,” he admits. “It combined the city, units and ‘one more turn’ of Empire ...

It has been a long time coming, but Civilization Revolution 2 has finally been released on iPad and iPhone. This shrunken-down version of the storied desktop gaming franchise retains many of the ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...