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Pokémon Is Almost Single-Handedly Keeping Physical Games Alive
28.10.2025
Also: Civilization 7 will eventually get the feature everyone's been waiting for
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One Of The Best PC Games Ever, And 10 Others, Are Free On Amazon Prime This Month
5.9.2025
Civilization IV might not look as fancy as newer entries, but its still the best in the series in my book
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Firaxis Lays Off ‘Dozens’ Of Devs After Civilization VII Struggles
4.9.2025
This is at least the third round of layoffs at a 2K-owned studio this year
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The Best 4X Games Ever Made Are All On Sale Right Now
12.8.2025
From Civilization to Sins of a Solar Empire via Masters of Orion, there's all the grand strategy you could hope for
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Amazon Prime Gaming’s Latest Batch Of Freebies Can Be Grabbed Now
8.8.2025
August's games include Thief: Definitive Edition and Civilization III: Complete, via DRM-free GOG codes
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Now's The Perfect Time To Grab Civilization 6 For Free While Civ 7 Is Still In Its Rebuilding Phase
17.7.2025
Months later, Civilization 7 still isn’t quite where it needs to be. It’s getting new updates all the time, but it’s still getting panned by fans for lacking features and feeling incomplete by the 4X strategy series’ standards. Fortunately, Civilization 6 is currently free to claim on Epic games...
Civilization VII’s Latest Update Finally Feels Like The Game Fans Were Promised
23.4.2025
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Civilization VII's Road To Recovery Continues With Fourth Big Update
22.4.2025
Civilization VII’s next big update has arrived and the 4X strategy game is steadily checking off the boxes on players’ most requested fixes and additions. It hasn’t yet purged the negative vibes around launch (or the game’s underwater user review rating on Steam), but the fourth major update in...
How To Improve Your Ground Combat Game In Civilization VII
17.3.2025
Like its predecessors, Civilization VII features numerous win conditions ranging from a cultural victory to a military victory. You could play nice with the other leaders, build alliances, share technology, and aim for the stars, as it were. Or, you could annihilate your neighbors with tanks...
Civilization 7's Big Question: Towns Or Cities?
13.3.2025
As you begin to step beyond your boundaries and expand your empire in Civilization VII, you’ll note that investing in a Settler and sending them off on a mission to settle new land doesn’t culminate in a city like previous entries. You begin with a township. A town is a small settlement, held back...
How To Choose Your Perfect Leader In Civilization 7
28.2.2025
In a game like Civilization VII, the leader you choose makes as much of a difference as how you play and the type of win condition you seek. If you want to rule the world, a military leader will provide the manpower and firepower. But an economic-focused leader makes the most sense if you’d rather...
How To Get Rich Quick In Civilization 7
20.2.2025
As in life, money makes most aspects of Civilization VII more manageable. Sure, you could wait a few turns for a building to finish construction or for a unit to enter the fray, but you could toss some gold at the problem. However, acquiring gold in Civilization VII poses unique challenges, and...
Civilization 7 Gets Launch Day Update To Address Sea Of Early Complaints
11.2.2025
It’s been a rocky launch for Civilization 7 so far. The long-anticipated latest entry in the strategy series went live for Deluxe Edition owners last week and complaints about the game feeling “unfinished” immediately started pouring in. A new patch, no doubt the first of many, aims to address some...
Fans Who Paid $100 To Play Civilization 7 Early Call It 'Unfinished'
7.2.2025
The launch of a new Civ game is always messy. Long-time fans grapple with new changes to a beloved and complex strategy series, alongside the usual flood of initial complaints that greet any big new PC release, from performance problems to usability issues. And then a few months (or years) later...
Oh No, February 2025 Is Stacked With Big Games
4.12.2024
February 2025 is filled with some big game releases, including a new Monster Hunter and Assassin’s Creed. In fact, so many large games are coming out that month that one of them has decided to change its release date to avoid the pile-up of video games. Read more
Mark Zuckerberg Says He's Probably The Best Civilization Player In The World
10.10.2024
Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook and CEO of parent company Meta, has played a lot of Civilization on PC. In fact, he’s played so much that he claims to be the best player in the world, and would be shocked if anybody else could “beat” him in a match. Read more
Pick Up The Civilization Games For Cheap And Get 4X-Pilled Ahead Of Civ VII
22.8.2024
Sid Meier’s Civilization 7 finally had its gameplay reveal at Gamescom earlier this week, and it has predictably gone over exceptionally well. The popular strategy games have become a household name, especially among PC players, and even the most casual game fans have had a significant amount...
Civilization VII Announced At Summer Game Fest, Also Coming To Consoles
7.6.2024
After leaking ahead of the show, 2K officially unveiled Civilization VII at Summer Game Fest. We already knew 2K was planning on announcing something big at the show, and thanks to an apparent flub on the publisher’s website earlier today, we knew ahead of time that Civilization VII was likely...
Age Of Wonders 4, A New Fantasy 4X Game, Is Great
19.5.2023
Age of Wonders is a long-running PC strategy series that has been around since 1999. It takes the 4X genre—think Civilization—and transports it into a fantasy world where battles are resolved in tactical showdowns, there’s magic everywhere and your leaders are also RPG characters.Read more
Sid Meier's Civilization VI: The Kotaku Re-Review
21.4.2023
Saying “history will not be kind to [thing or person]” is a practice that has always fascinated me. Who are we to judge the future’s thoughts on the topics of today? That’s the future’s problem. All we can do in the present, as historians or otherwise, is evaluate what has come before us. Read more