Can you remember the first time you played a Civilization game, and what it was that got you hooked? Was it the exploration? Empire management? Warfare? Without a doubt this 4X series is a cornerstone ...

A Reddit user named Lycerius has been playing the same game of Civilization II for a decade, and his in-game world has turned out pretty grim by the year 3991. The Civilization games are grand ...

In the eyes of MicroProse, Civilization II was a simple side project that would pale in comparison to their exciting follow-up to the original Civilization, CivNet. CivNet was essentially an online ...

Conspiracy theorists and doomsday-goers can feel a bit better today -- or worse, depending on how you look at it. Screenshots and videos have spread through the Internet like wildfire these past few ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition Originally released on 2006-2-21, Galactic Civilizations II (GalCiv II) is a 4X Grand strategy game set in the ...

An empire built on word of mouth. Brian Reynolds remembers when Sid Meier gave him a copy of Civilization. “I played until 2am,” he admits. “It combined the city, units and ‘one more turn’ of Empire ...

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A simplified version of a Civilization game has always struck me as an oxymoron. Taking Firaxis’ famously addictive turn-based strategy series about guiding a nation from cavedwellers to spacefarers ...