Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features new media for Dragon Age 2, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Magic: The Gathering - Tactics, Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury, Total War: Shogun 2, Mortal Kombat, Country Dance, World of Tanks, Dirt 3, Fight Night Champion, WWE All Stars, and Infamous 2. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features media for Anarchy Reigns, Bulletstorm, MotorStorm Apocalypse, Knights Contract, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, Naruto Shippuden: Kizuna Drive, Major League Baseball 2K11, Primal Carnage, Mario Sports Mix, MLB 11: The Show, Okamiden, LittleBigPlanet 2, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation, and The Sims Medieval. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features F.E.A.R. 3, Might & Magic Heroes VI, Darkspore, Mortal Kombat, Bulletstorm, SBK 2011, Fight Night Champion, Sequence, Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation, Kingdom Hearts Re:coded, Total War: Shogun 2, Rift, and Lord of Arcana. Read more »

Yesterday, it was announced (unofficially) that Jon Shafer, the lead designer of Civilization V who recently left Firaxis, had been hired by Stardock to help with the continuing development of Elemental: War of Magic and eventually lead his own team for another game down the line.

Shacknews caught up with Jon for a quick interview, which is presented below. Enjoy! Read more »

PC Exclusive: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

It was definitely a close race between the two top games here, but in the end StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty edged out our runner-up. StarCraft II shipped with Blizzard's requisite level of polish and tons of content, which was quickly snapped up by a huge community from casual players all the way up to Korean progamers. In fact, some of us played the StarCraft II beta more than most other games this year, which continued when the game was released. Read more »

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Over fifteen years after it was released in Japan, SNES RPG Dragon Quest VI will finally arrive in North America on February 14, 2011 for the DS, Nintendo announced today.

Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation is a shiny remake boasting "new character options and enhancements," including new graphics. The project was announced way back in 2008 but has barely been heard of since. Read more »

Hot on the heels of the announcement that The Double Civilization Scenario Pack: Spain and Inca is coming soon, Firaxis and 2K Games have revealed that a Civilization 5 patch will be available "on or before" the DLC's December 16 release.

The list of fixes posted on the 2K Games Forum is quite massive, due in part to the fact that the list includes all changes to made to Civ 5, and not just the ones included in the upcoming patch. It's a huge list, so let's just get to it, shall we? Read more »

Firaxis and 2K Games have announced that they'll be providing Civilization 5 players with some more options for world domination via a downloadable expansion on December 16.

Called 'The Double Civilization Scenario Pack: Spain and Inca,' the pack adds two new playable civilizations and one new campaign scenario. On top of bringing Queen Isabella of Spain and Incan leader Pachacuti into the mix, the new scenario, set in 1492, let's players sail the ocean-blue in search of the new world, and of course, lay waste to their enemies in the name of Thanksgiving. Read more »

The various "Cradle of Civilization" map packs that were released as retailer-specific bonuses with the launch of Civilization V are now available to purchase, as promised.

Each of the four packs can be snagged for $2.99 or bundled together for $9.99. Read more »

The time has come for all Mac owners to dust off their marching boots and dominate the world. As was announced earlier this month, today marks the release of Sid Meier's Civilization V for the Mac.

On Steam, Civilization V is available as a SteamPlay title--meaning purchasing the game for either PC or Mac will give you free access to both platforms. Unlike the PC version of Civilization V, the Mac version does not support SteamCloud for game saves; however, the porting team at Aspyr Media says a patch to add the feature will launch "soon after the Civilization V Mac release." Save games will not be accessible between platforms. Read more »

Aspyr, the company responsible for porting Civilization V to the Mac, has announced a release date for the game: November 23. It will be available in both retail and digital flavors.

There will be a limited number of Special Edition Mac copies signed by Sid Meier. These are said to be "extremely rare" and will only be sold through GameAgent, Aspyr's boxed and digital storefront. Read more »

A little over a week ago, Firaxis announced that a major patch to address bugs, UI changes, and exploits in Civilization V, was on the way. As promised, the first major update to Civilization V has been released today, and the list of changes is a bit longer than initially reported.

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Porting veteran Aspyr Media has announced that it'll be bringing Sid Meier's Civilization V to Apple's shiny white computerators some time this holiday season.

"The Civilization franchise is a fan-favorite and one of the best-selling Mac games ever. We are thrilled to be able to participate in this newest version and bring Mac gamers this native experience so close to the PC launch," said Aspyr executive VP Ted Staloch. Read more »

Civilization 5 publisher 2K Games announced two add-on packs for the game will be available next Monday, October 25. As a thank you to the fans, the 'Mongols Civilization and Scenario Pack' will be free. It lets players try their hand at leading Genghis Khan and his Mongol horsemen in conquest to unite the largest continuous empire ever under one banner.

The 'Babylonian Civilization Pack', which came as part of the extras with the digital deluxe edition of the game, will also be available for $4.99. It gives players access to the Babylonian civilization with their advanced Bowmen and ruled by Nebuchadnezzer II. Read more »