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Civilization Revolution The next Civilization title is announced: Civilization Revolution. It is the first-ever Civilization game that is designed for consoles, namely the XBox360 and the PS3. There is a teaser trailer and some new concept art screenshots. More >
2nd Civilization IV Expansion Firaxis has produced the 2nd expansion for Civilization IV, called "Beyond the Sword," which focuses on the late-game period. It will be released in July 2007. More >
Tabula Rasa Beta FilePlanet Subscribers can jump into the Tabula Rasa beta test. Will it redefine MMOs?
Civilization Daydreams 2K Games has started a fan-comic competition called "Civilization Daydreams." Read more here, and have a look at the third comic by Scott Johnson!
Railroads Strategy Guide Railroads! strategy guide in several installments! Read parts one and two now!
Civilization Daydreams: Turn is Over 9:05 PST | jvdc | Print News Sorry for the late newsposts. Those who watch the top promotions might have noticed that we've posted the third Civilization Daydreams comic exclusive to Planet Civilization: Turn is Over.
Civilization Daydreams: Alexander Animation 1:31 PST | jvdc | Print News As part of the "Civilization Daydreams" promotion, Apolyton Civilization
Site released one of its original content pieces
exclusively: the "Alexander" animated short by RingTales` (RT) Mike Fry
and Jim Fox. The 45-second production is available in both
low-resolution Windows Media (4.0MB) and high-resolution QuickTime
(487.8MB) formats. In it Alexander of Greece is concerned with the state
of his empire, and it seems to be an understatement. RT is perhaps best
known as the company behind an ongoing set of animated New Yorker cartoons.
Beyond the Sword: Released! 7:29 PST | jvdc | Print News 2K Games announced today that Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, the latest expansion pack for Civilization IV, is now available.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword is the second expansion pack for Sid Meier�s Civilization IV. It focuses on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder and delivers eleven challenging and decidedly different scenarios created by the development team at Firaxis Games, as well as members of the Civilization Fan Community. Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword also includes ten new civilizations, 16 new leaders, five new wonders, and a variety of new units that will offer even more fun and exciting ways for players to expand their civilization�s power as they strive for world domination.
Civilization Daydreams 1:30 PST | jvdc | Print News To celebrate the launch of Beyond the Sword, the latest expansion for Civilization IV, 2K Games has started a series of comics about the characters in the game, drawn by famous online cartoonists.
In addition, 2K Games is asking you (yes, that's you, the reader) to make more comics about the game and submit them to the Civilization Daydreams competition.
Beyond the Sword Demo 12:32 PST | jvdc | Print News Fileplanet has just released a standalone demo of the upcoming CIV4 expansion Beyond the Sword. The demo allows players to get a preview of the "Final Frontier" scenario that will ship with the expansion.
Sid Meier Interview: History of Civilization 9:10 PST | jvdc | Print News Gamasutra interviewed Sid Meier on the history of Civilization. The ten page(!) feature goes through the early stages of Microprose, and how Civilization came to be. Starting at page 5 is the actual interview with Sid Meier, in which he talks about what inspired him, what he thinks about the different iterations of the game, and how proud he is of the achievement.
Sid Meier on Civ Revolution 1:38 PST | jvdc | Print News Gamedaily.com has published an interview with Sid Meier on the upcoming console title Civilization Revolution. Sid talks about why he chose to make a console version, how he thinks the CIV experience is possible to work on a console, and how gameplay will be easier.
Civ Revolution not on PSP 2:12 PST | jvdc | Print News In an interview with Eurogamer, Barry Caudill of Firaxis games explains why there will not be a PSP version of the upcoming CIV title for consoles:
The reason the Wii version is in [autumn 2008] is because we realised that we could free up enough guys to do it, but we don't have enough guys to then do a PSP version as well. It's not like we're dissing the platform - I use a PSP. We put Pirates out on it, or rather we had Full Fat do it. But see this one, the difference here is we're doing all of these in-house and so for PSP we may have to - if it was going to come out in a timely fashion - we may have to farm it out. But right now we're just doing all these in-house and that's the official word.
Friday, 13 July, 2007 � Planet Civilization News
Civ Revolution for Wii and DS 2:11 PST | jvdc | Print News Take2 has announced that Civilization Revolution, the upcoming console version of Civilization, will be available on the Nindendo DS handheld console, and the Nintendo Wii. Expect to get civilized on the train to work, or prepare to civilize others while swinging your arms wildly in your room.
Sony's PSP is left out in the cold. That means, the platform line-up is as follows:
- Microsoft XBox 360
- Sony PlayStation 3
- Nintendo Wii
- Nintendo DS
1:57 PST | jvdc | Print News GameTap just announced they will be broadcasting live from E3 again this year and will have web castings of the show�s biggest news available at www.gametap.com.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition 6:04 PST | jvdc | Print News 2K Games announced today Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition for PC. Containing Sid Meier�s Civilization IV and its first expansion set, Civilization IV: Warlords plus an impressive list of bonus items.
These include:
Exclusive fantasy-style poster from world-famous artist Greg Hildebrandt (illustrator of the original �Star Wars� fantasy-themed �Clash of the Titans� movie poster, �Lord of the Rings� calendars and posters and other seminal artwork)
Behind-the-scenes DVD with developer interviews, insight into the Civilization IV development process and a short feature on Sid Meier�s video game history
Tech-tree poster featuring the paths to researching and discovering all of the technologies needed to advance in Civilization IV
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