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Firaxis’s Rising Tide will take you under the sea in expansion for Civilization: Beyond Earth

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Take-Two Interactive’s 2K label is showing off the first gameplay video today for the Rising Tide expansion pack for Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth.

The expansion will give fans more reasons to spend a lot of hours with the turn-based strategy title, which debuted last fall on the Windows PC. This entry from Firaxis Games lets players colonize an alien world and explore new ways for humanity to survive amid hostile environments.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.