How Bruce Shelley brought a board gamer’s view into designing Civilization
Before he worked on Civilization with legendary game designer Sid Meier, Bruce Shelley was a board game designer at companies such as Avalon Hill....
Civilization’s father, Sid Meier, shares 25 years of insights on his beloved series
Sid Meier is the legendary designer behind many different computer games in a wide variety of genres, and he’s perhaps the only video game...
Retro developers call out the games that kicked their asses (part 1)
We asked a bunch of people who make old-style games which classic titles were too hard for them. Their answers may not surprise you at all.
Civilization V: Gods and Kings can’t fix what is fundamentally flawed (review)
While this expansion improves diplomacy with the addition of espionage and religion, it proves unable to correct the major issues of the original release.
Player’s decade-old Civilization II game is a world of “hellish nightmare”
Reddit user Lycerius has stuck with the same Civilization II game for a decade. The result? A wasted world of nuclear fallout, melted ice caps, and constant war between the ragged remains of Celtania, New Vikingland, and America.