It's 1944. The world is plunged deep into war. American troops are on the verge of crossing into German territory. The war has dragged on for years. Heavy bombers and fighter planes have regularly ...

At Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, last month, I sat down in one of a dozen chairs arranged like a makeshift theater to watch Ed Beach -- lead designer of the upcoming Sid Meier's Civilization 7 and ...

The release date of Civilization 7 draws near and will see the game launch on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch at the same time — a first in series history. That's ...

Civilization VII shows how once-mighty empires can fade into irrelevance. For decades, the undisputed king of 4X games (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) has been the Civilization series, ...

The MS-DOS generation of gaming was an incredibly iconic one. Some of the greatest games came out during this time, and several of them developed into fantastic franchises that are still going strong ...

Fatemah grew up playing all kinds of games, initially finding a home in the very first installments of Counter-Strike and Warcraft. From there onward, it was pure grind — all day, all night.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After nearly nine years of Civilization 6 expansions and updates, it's finally Civilization 7's ...

Carla is a writer from Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, now based in Atlanta. She’s an Emory alum with both a BA and MA in English, but more importantly, she’s a Pisces with lots of opinions about video games.

The past 18 months have heralded a small renaissance for strategy games. Manor Lords takes the municipal organization of Cities Skylines and crosses it with Age of Empires' feudalism. Frostpunk 2 ...

I have a tendency in games like Civilization 7 to turtle. I get a few cities on the go and then sit behind walls, building and researching while stubbornly refusing to actually recruit an army. This ...