A great strategy game must provide players with a formula that is both familiar each time it's encountered, but also never ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. This story was updated on 29 January 2025 with new release ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Sid Meier’s Civilization franchise has been around in gaming for almost as long as civilization ...

This old man's a real pain in my Dutch oven. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's not quite out on PCs yet—unless you paid to ...

Civilization 7 launches fully on February 11, 2025 (with early access starting on February 5) but the review embargo has lifted. That means you have more than a week to figure out if the game is right ...

Here I am again to argue that Civilization 7, as much as it may be too radical a departure from 4X game tradition, has the potential to be very, very good. Four months since Firaxis launched the ...

Build up a brand-new civilization with the powers of God set on random in Spinera, coming out on Pc via Steam sometime in ...

There is a lot going on during every turn of Civilization 7. Each time you hit “next turn,” the computer is calculating the moves of other civilizations, factoring in your difficulty setting, ...

“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...