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Thanks to Apolyton for this news tip. Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS) has published the first in a ten-part serial entitled "Three Men and a Victory" from 'ApolyCon '06'. Three representatives from Civilization IV developer Firaxis Games participated in a multiplayer tournament for the game. The game's Lead Designer Soren Johnson, fellow Designer/Pro...
Firaxis has posted on their webiste a survey. By filling it out you will help them improve future Civilization games. Hello Civ Fans! We really appreciate your willingness to take a few moments and complete this survey. The Civ community has grown significantly since the release of Civ III and we're very interested in learning more about the wonderful...
GameSpot has posted the official Warlords trailer which shows soldiers using a siege tower to attack a city. The trailer is 1:07 minutes long and can be viewed in streaming format or downloaded if you are a GameSpot member.
Tom McNamara reports for IGN PC on the "Prototyping Civilization IV" lecture held at Game Developers Conference 2006 earlier this week in San Jose, California. CivIV Lead Designer Soren Johnson and Lead Animator Dorian Newcomb gave a talk on how they put together... and the design process isn`t quite what you`d probably expect. Below is an excerpt from the...
Ian Beck has written a preview of the Macintosh port of Civilization IV. y all reports, this is a Civilization game designed with the new player (or the WarCraft III brand of strategy player) in mind, but also with a slew of exciting features with the veteran in heart, he prefaces. A short time later, he comments that the game`s gameplay is very similar to p...
he NPD Group has released PC game sales data for the week ending March 4th. Civilization IV is still on the top 10 sellers list, although it's at the last position... 1. The Sims 2 Open for Business (Electronic Arts) 2. Star Wars: Empire at War (LucasArts) 3. The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II (Electronic Arts) 4. World of Warcraft...
Take-Two Interactive's executive vice president Cindy Buckwalter told analysts in a conference call yesterday following Take-Two's Q1 earnings report that PopTop Software's operations had been merged with Firaxis as a cost-saving measure. "One example we gave was combining the two studios of PopTop and Firaxis," she said. "We think there's a lot of synergies...
The latest April 2006 issue of PC Gamer contains a two page interview with Soren Johnson (Civ4 Lead Designer) and Barry Caudill (Civ4 Producer) on page 56 of the magazine. Forum member croxis wrote the following summary on the forum: There really isn't too much new that we don't already know. They talked about how multi-player was included from the gro...
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For the week ending January 28th, Civilization IV moves up one into second on the "Top Selling PC Game" list for North America as tracked by NPD Group based on unit sales across the continent. World of Warcraft holds onto second, while CivIV and The Sims swap spots where the latter is now in third.
At the ninth annual "D.I.C.E." (Design, Innovate, Create, Entertain) convention held by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS), Civilization IV took the nod for `PC Game of the Year` beating out both Age of Empires III and Empire Earth II as reported by GameSpot`s Tor Thorsen. It and three other titles lost to Battlefield 2 for the `PC Game of t...
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Science (AIAS) awards were revealed last night at the annual D.I.C.E. summit in Las Vegas. Civilization IV is the winnner of the Strategy Game of the Year award. For the PC Game of the Year award, Civ4 was nominated but the award went to Battlefield 2. The biggest winner is God of War (PS2), which received seven awards...
The NPD Group has released the PC games sales data for the week ending January 30. Civilization IV moved up a few spots, now at second place, after World of Warcraft. Other PC games on the Top Ten list include The Sims 2, Age of Empires III, Zoo Tycoon 2, Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 2, The Sims 2 Nightlife, Battlefield 2 Special Forces, and Guild Wars.