Sid Meier's Starships
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Sid Meier’s Starships lets you take a spin around the galaxy (hands-on preview)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

If you’re a Civilization fan, you’ve probably gotten used to seeing a game come out once every few years. But with Sid Meier’s Starships, a spin-off game related to last fall’s Civilization: Beyond Earth, fans of the series are in for a pleasant surprise.

The most recent title in the Civilization series debuted in October, but Take-Two Interactive’s 2K games label and developer Firaxis are readying Starships for a March 12 debut. It isn’t a major new release, but it’s like a nice chess game while you’re waiting for the next big one.

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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.