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Inheriting Civilization V’s Brave New World, One Trade At A Time

I’d like to think I’m a people person. I might not agree with 75 per cent of what other people say or think or believe, but I get along. It’s what I do. In today’s society it works, for the most part. In Civilization V it didn’t, at least not until now. It’s a Brave New World, and I almost conquered it with commerce.


Civilization V’s Next Expansion — Brave New World — Is Out July 12

Firaxis today announced at their PAX East panel that the recently announced Civilization V expansion, named Brave New World, will be released internationally on July 12.


You’ll Soon Be Able To Use XCOM Soldiers In Civilization V

Today Firaxis — the makers of both XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Civilization V — announced that you can research something called the XCOM Project in your game of Civ V.


Civilization V’s Newest Expansion Pack Will Take You To A Brave New World

Civilization V‘s second expansion pack, dubbed Brave New World, brings a sharper focus on culture and diplomacy, with new civilizations, wonders and more. Yes, more!


Three Attempts At Bending Civ V To My Will Didn’t Go So Well

I had never played Civilization V prior to last week. Not to any meaningful degree, at least. I grew up with Nintendo and, to a lesser extent, Sega (plus Microsoft, come the aughts) providing my gaming goodness. I was a toddler when the original Civilization hit computers in 1991.


Let’s Rank The Civilization Games, Best To Worst

Oh boy. This one hurt. When we first fired this feature up, this was the first series I wanted to cover, seeing as it’s both incredibly popular and dear to my heart. But when I sat down and tried to actually rank them, I gave up. I just could not wring my hands tight enough to sort between them.


Gods & Kings ‘Fixes’ Civilization V (If You Think It Needed Fixing)

I appear to be one of a rare breed of person who, on the internet at least, is proud to have enjoyed civilisation V. I thought the shift to hexes and abandonment of unit “stacking” was the best thing the series had done in years, and while it wasn’t perfect – the AI could have done with some work – on the whole, I had a blast.


A Very Strange Bug Made My Civ V Game More Fun… For A While

Ever since playing a preview of the upcoming Civilization V expansion a few weeks ago I’ve been, as I predicted, sucked into the game. I started with small maps and few competitors, on easy modes, and with every win I’ve been ratcheting up the difficulty for the game that follows. Finally, I was playing a game I was proud of.


Meet Some Of The New Civilizations In Civ V’s First Expansion

Watch a whole bunch of new civilisations take over the world in this new trailer for Civilization V: Gods & Kings, the upcoming Civ V expansion pack that will be out for PC on June 19. New additions to the game include Austria, the Netherlands and Ethiopia, among others.


I Lost Sleep Waging Holy War In The New Civilization V

So, I have to be honest: I’ve spent two years avoiding Civilization V on purpose. It’s not that I have anything against the evolution of city-states into empires, or that I find resource-gathering, diplomacy,and warfare uninteresting. In fact, it’s exactly the opposite: I am deeply, painfully susceptible to the classic Civ player crisis of, “Just… one more… turn!” There’s a great wide hex-gridded world out there, and I have to be responsible for all of it.


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