Firaxis say that embracing the full early access model could be "a great opportunity" for the Civilization series.

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A great strategy game must provide players with a formula that is both familiar each time it's encountered, but also never stops presenting fresh challenges. In Sid Meier's Civilization 7, developer ...

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With “Sid Meier’s Civilization VII” a disappointment, “Anno” has an opportunity to snag the strategy game spotlight. The Ubisoft franchise has been in the shadow of Firaxis’ long-running classic, ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...

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Harappa was one of the large cities created by the Indus Valley civilization. Smn121 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 What happened to the Indus Valley civilization? The culture, also known as ...