In Real Life

The Massive Delivers A Chilling, Water-Logged Look At The End Of The World

Most pop-culture apocalypses crank up the volume, right? Whether it’s alien invasions or natural disasters, the end of civilisation as we know it tends usher in a whole lot of noise pollution. So, the palpable silence left by mankind’s near-extinction happens so quietly is one of the best things about The Massive.


May 11, 2012
PC

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.


March 8, 2012
News

Your Nit-Picky, Paranoid Playstyle Teaches Civilization’s Creator How To Make Games

For as long as there’ve been video games, there’ve been attempts to classify the various types of people who play them. It’s a bit of a parlour game that reveals bits of human behaviour. What do you call the person who tries to parse a game’s inner workings? Legendary designer Sid Meier’s coined his own categories and says that each personality type can help creators figure out various aspects of games they’re working on.


February 17, 2012
PC

New Civilization V Expansion Brings Religion, Espionage Back To Series

Developer Firaxis will release an expansion pack for Civilization V this (northern) spring, it said today. Civilization V: Gods & Kings will mark the return of religion and espionage, two Civilization IV features that were absent in the fifth instalment of the popular turn-based strategy series.


PC

Gods, Spies Take Centre Stage In Civilization V Expansion

Ed Beach talks rapid-fire when he’s dishing details on Gods & Kings, the Civilization V expansion pack that Firaxis announced this morning. I can’t blame him. He’s got a lot to say.


September 15, 2011
News

Civilization V Game Of The Year Edition Hits Sept 27

A “Game of the Year” edition of Sid Meier’s Civilization V, featuring six packs and the digital soundtrack, hits stores on September 27 for $US50, 2K Games said this morning.


August 31, 2011
Retro

Remembering The House That Civilization Built

I don’t tend to truly miss many video game studios. Businesses come and go, their developers move on, make new stuff, the world keeps spinning.


July 14, 2011
News

Computer Learns To Play Civilization By Reading The Instruction Manual

Starting from nothing, a computer taught itself to read the instruction manual for Civilization and saw its rate of victory jump from 46 per cent to 79 per cent.


May 17, 2011
PC

Here’s What Civilization On Facebook Looks Like

We gave you a brief rundown on how Civilization World, the upcoming Facebook version of the classic PC strategy series, worked the other day. Now you can see for yourself in this trailer.


May 12, 2011
PC

Sid Meier Hopes To Release Civ World This Winter

Civ World, Sid Meier’s attempt to bring the complexities of his long-lived strategy game Civilization to the quick play nature of Facebook, is due to hit the online service this winter, CNN reports.