by Rainier on Feb. 1, 2008 @ 4:11 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Civilization Revolution will deliver revolutionary features like real-time interaction between leaders, multi-player capabilities and integrated video and voice chat, which completely transports the Civilization series to a level of gameplay that fans have never experienced before.
by Rainier on Nov. 15, 2007 @ 5:53 p.m. PST | Filed under
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GameTap announces that 2K Games’ Sid Meier’s Civilization IV has been selected as the 1,000th game added to the network’s library of current and classic console, arcade, PC and original titles.
by Rainier on Oct. 18, 2007 @ 2:53 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution will deliver revolutionary features like real-time interaction between leaders, multi-player capabilities and integrated video and voice chat, which completely transports the Civilization series to a level of gameplay that fans have never experienced before.
by Andrew Hayward on July 20, 2007 @ 3:46 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Civilization Revolution will deliver epic single-player campaigns featuring vast re-playability and addictive gameplay, real-time interaction with leaders and advisers, extensive multiplayer capabilities and integrated video and voice chat.
by Rainier on July 19, 2007 @ 9:26 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Civ. IV: Beyond the Sword will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder and will deliver 12 challenging and decidedly different scenarios. 2K Games has released a playable demo allowing you to try out th first 75 turns of the Final Frontier scenario.
by Rainier on July 18, 2007 @ 8:35 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Civ. IV: Beyond the Sword will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder and will deliver 12 challenging and decidedly different scenarios. 2K Games will released a playable demo tomorrow allowing you to try out th first 75 turns of the Final Frontier scenario. We will of course have the demo on our
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2K Games announced Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition, containing Sid Meier's Civilization IV and its first expansion set, Civilization IV: Warlords, plus bonus items such as poster, making of DVD and more ..
by Rainier on June 28, 2007 @ 5:13 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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2K Games announced that it will publish Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution, the first next generation game designed by world famous game designer Sid Meier, developed by Firaxis Games, and handcrafted from scratch for next gen consoles and handhelds.
by Rainier on May 24, 2007 @ 8:46 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder and will deliver 12 challenging and decidedly different scenarios created by Firaxis Games, and the Civilization Fan Community.
by Rainier on May 11, 2007 @ 10:17 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder and will deliver 12 challenging and decidedly different scenarios created by Firaxis Games, and the Civilization Fan Community.
by Rainier on March 28, 2007 @ 5:47 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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2K announced Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, the latest expansion pack for Civ IV franchise. Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder and will deliver 12 challenging and decidedly different scenarios created by Firaxis Games, and the Civilization Fan Community.
by Rainier on Oct. 25, 2006 @ 3:05 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sid Meier's Civilization Chronicles is the definitive Civilization collector's edition, for the first time covering the entire series, all 4 base games and its 5 addons, in one package. Troy Goodfellow interviews former Firaxis employee Bruce Shelley who helped design Sid Meier's Civilization.
by Rainier on Sept. 29, 2006 @ 2:27 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sid Meier's Civilization Chronicles is the definitive Civilization collector's edition, for the first time covering the entire series,all 4 base games and its 5 addons, in one behemoth package. Troy Goodfellow interviews former Firaxis employee Brian Reynolds about his involvement in Civ II.
by Rainier on July 6, 2006 @ 9:55 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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2K Games and Firaxis Games today announced Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords has gone gold. Civ IV: Warlords comes loaded with new civilizations, new leaders and more units, resources and wonders that can be used in both single and multiplayer games.
by Rainier on June 2, 2006 @ 1:44 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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2K Games and Firaxis Games today announced Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords, an expansion pack for Sid Meier's Civilization IV, loaded with new civilizations, new leaders and more units, resources and wonders that can be used in both single and multiplayer games.
by Rainier on April 13, 2006 @ 9:11 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Shortly after previous update Firaxis has released another, large, patch for Sid Meier's Civilization IV. This update brings your retail game to v1.61 and includes numerous optimizations for memory usage that should help performance on all machines but are tailored to especially improve performance on machines at or near the minimum specification.
by Rainier on March 16, 2006 @ 10:59 a.m. PST | Filed under
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2K Games and Firaxis Games today announced Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords, an expansion pack for Sid Meier's Civilization IV for the PC.
by Mark Crump on Jan. 13, 2006 @ 1:23 a.m. PST | Filed under
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The fourth title in the series of turn-based strategy games, Sid Meier's Civilization IV expands on the beloved gameplay of its predecessors with countless new gameplay changes and improvements, including religion, great people and for the first time in the Civilization series, a full 3D engine.
Sid Meier put computer gaming on the map when he delivered Civilization to the gaming world, launching the "God Game" genre and creating one of the most award-winning and addictive strategy series of all time, including Sid Meier's Civilization IV. Driven by sheer passion for the game concept, Meier is now handcrafting a brand-new Civilization experience designed and built from scratch for next gen consoles and handhelds.
In Civilization, players strive to become ruler of the world by establishing and leading a civilization from the dawn of man into the space age - waging war, conducting diplomacy, discovering technologies, going head-to-head
by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Get the Civilization IV: Warlords Trailer off WP (20mb)
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords is the first expansion pack for the award-winning game that has become an instant world-wide hit. Paying homage to some of history’s greatest military leaders, the expansion will deliver six unique and interesting scenarios, giving players the chance to change the course of history with the help of their new powerful "warlord" unit. Civ IV: Warlords will include new civilizations, leaders, units, and wonders that will offer even more fun and exciting ways for players to expand their civilization’s military power as they strive for world
As a complete reimagining of the 1994 classic, Colonization is a total conversion of Civilization IV that combines Civilization's addictive "just one more turn" gameplay with all-new graphics and features that add more depth to the franchise.
by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Publisher: 2K Games
Developer: Firaxis Games
Release Date: Spring 2008 (PS3/360/DS), Fall 2008 (Wii)
To call Civilization console-agnostic would be a misnomer. In actuality, it's just been a long damn time since Sid Meier's turn-based world-beating sim last made a console appearance. Almost a decade, in fact — Civilization II for PSone popped up in 1998 (following the original Civilization for Super Nintendo in 1994), and since then, the closest the series has come to escaping the clutches of computer gaming is an N-Gage version that quietly shipped early last year.
So it came as
by Rainier on Dec. 23, 2005 @ 7:21 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Shortly after previous update Firaxis has released another, large, patch for Sid Meier's Civilization IV. This update brings your retail game to v1.52 and includes numerous optimizations for memory usage that should help performance on all machines but are tailored to especially improve performance on machines at or near the minimum specification. Read more for download links ...
by Rainier on Nov. 23, 2005 @ 9:25 p.m. PST | Filed under
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After being released and revoked right away Firaxis has released the proper patch for Sid Meier's Civilization IV. This update brings your retail game to v1.09 and addresses some game bugs & crashes, multiplayer issues, better load times, optmizations and various game tweaks. Read more for download links ...
by Rainier on Nov. 23, 2005 @ 2:18 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV expands on the beloved gameplay of its predecessors with countless new gameplay changes and improvements, including religion, great people and for the first time in the Civilization series, a full 3D engine. 2K Games has released a demo for Firaxis' Civ IV allowing you to try out a tutorial and a 100 turn demo level (
thanks GameDemos). Read more for download links ...