A frozen biome in the Rising Tide expansion of Civilization: Beyond Earth.
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Surviving the watery dangers of Civilization: Beyond Earth — Rising Tide (hands-on)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The first time I sent out a gunboat to explore the waters of my world in Rising Tide, a giant squid lashed its tentacles onto it and destroyed the vessel.

That’s just one of the dangers from the deep that players face in this expansion for Civilization: Beyond Earth, which debuts on Windows PCs this fall for $30. Published by Take-Two Interactive’s 2K Games label and developed by Firaxis Games, Rising Tide focuses on civilizations with floating cities on watery worlds. The expansion is the first major expansion pack for Beyond Earth, the latest version of Civilization set in a future when humanity colonizes the stars. Rising Tide is an important downloadable content (DLC) addition that is aimed at keeping gamers loyal to Civilization: Beyond Earth well after its initial 2014 launch.

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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.