Civilization Series News

Civilization 5: Brave New World trailer shows off trade routes

By Steve Watts, May 30, 2013 10:00am PDT

A new trailer for Civilization 5's Brave New World expansion shows off the new trade routes system.

"It doesn't look like there's an expansion worth of content here. Nothing really game changing, ..."

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Civilization 5: Brave New World trailer delves into new ideologies

By John Keefer, May 23, 2013 9:30am PDT

The Civilization 5: Brave New World is bringing a new ideology system to the game, as well as adding some social policies. A new trailer for the...

Civilization 5: Brave New World adding Indonesia, Morocco

By Steve Watts, May 20, 2013 8:30am PDT

Firaxis announced two more cultures being added to Civilization 5's "Brave New World" expansion: Indonesia and Morocco.

"Or maybe i'm overreacting! Hope so. I'll just shut up and wait for the reviews."

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Civilization 5: Brave New World trailer highlights culture, tourism

By John Keefer, May 10, 2013 9:45am PDT

The Civilization 5: Brave New World expansion puts new focus on tourism and culture, including a new Cultural victory that lets you besiege other civs with just how cool you are with all the works of your new artists and composers.

"X-com squad reminds me of that amazing X-com map-mod scenario for Civ II."

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Civilization 5 'Brave New World' new cultures, ideology system detailed

By Steve Watts, Apr 12, 2013 8:00am PDT

Firaxis has detailed a few more of the changes coming to Civilization V's "Brave New World" expansion, including additional cultures, a revised trade route system, and ideologies.

"Oh come on, Baba Yetu is one of the best video game songs of all time. It's a menu theme though. ..."

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Civilization 5 devs on forging a Brave New World

By Steve Watts, Mar 29, 2013 11:30am PDT

We talk with Civilization 5 senior producer Dennis Shirk and Brave New World lead designer Ed Beech about the motivations and intricacies of the upcoming expansion.

"heh, there's those new "XCOM squad" units fighting that Giant Death Robot."

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Civilization 5 'Brave New World' coming July 9

By Steve Watts, Mar 25, 2013 8:15am PDT

Civilization 5's "Brave New World" expansion will release July 9, Firaxis has announced.

"Man, every day I think I should start a new Civ5 game, and every day I get distracted. Today ..."

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Civilization 5: Brave New World expansion announced

By Alice O'Connor, Mar 15, 2013 6:00am PDT

Culture, trade and diplomacy are to become more important in Civilization 5 with Brave New World, the second expansion pack, announced today by publisher 2K Games. Arriving this summer on PC and Mac, it'll bring a new Culture Victory condition, international trade routes, th...

"How many players? We tried an ~8 player game once, and the main problems were that you couldn't ..."

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Civilization 5 'One World' expansion spotted

By Steve Watts, Jan 16, 2013 4:15pm PST

Civilization V may be getting a new expansion titled "One World," judging by an executable file listing.

"As a hard loyalist to Civ 4, Gods and Kings made all of the right moves and fixed lots of the ..."

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Civilization Online announced for Asian territories

By Steve Watts, Oct 25, 2012 9:00am PDT

Take-Two has announced a massively multiplayer online Civilization being developed for Asian territories, dubbed "Civilization Online."

Civilization V: Gods & Kings review

By Thierry Nguyen, Jul 10, 2012 1:15pm PDT

Review

Civilization V: Gods & Kings won't be changing anyone's opinion -- positive or negative -- about Civ V as a whole, but it does enhance it into a better package overall.

Civilization V 'Gods and Kings' demo available

By Steve Watts, Jul 02, 2012 1:30pm PDT

Firaxis has now put up a demo for its Civilization V "Gods and Kings" expansion.

Civilization V adding Steam Workshop for mods

By Alice O'Connor, Jun 04, 2012 6:45am PDT

Firaxis is cutting out Civilization V's existing mod browsing system to slip in Valve's sleek and chic Steam Workshop. As in Portal 2 and Skyrim, it'll let you easily peruse, download, rate, and submit mods through your browser or the Steam client.