Civilization gets its first real competition in 30 years, but can this new pretender really beat the king of 4X strategy? Sometimes things are exactly what they seem to be. The second you see a ...

For a long time, Sid Meier’s Civilization reigned as the king of the turn-based, society-building genre. Civilization's take on 4X strategy games, with its focus on empires, cities, and territorial ...

Amplitude's big play for the historical grand strategy crown is ambitious and considered, but it's missing a little magic. Ideology's always been a part of grand, 4X strategy games. It's there in the ...

The human civilization - as we know it - will come to an end by 2045, inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil told TIME in a recent interview. Kurzweil believes that we're approaching a moment when computers ...

There's something kind of special about playing a new 4X game, especially a historical one. These games are about playing through history - all of history - which means that as much as they're about ...

GameCentral gets to play Sega’s answer to Civilization and speaks to the developers about the moral quandaries of 4X strategy games. In the early days of video games the word ‘clone’ used to get used ...

It’s not even day one at Gamescom 2019 and already the announcements are coming thick and fast. Sega has just unveiled a new upcoming game titled “Humankind” that could give strategy mainstays such as ...

Human civilization stands a 90 per cent chance of an 'irreversible collapse' within decades as a result of deforestation, physicists claim. It is thought that within the next two to four decades Earth ...

I wish I were reviewing humankind, as in the entire collection of people on the planet. Lots of promise, could do better. Three stars. Instead, I’m reviewing Humankind, the game, although the verdict ...