2K Games has announced the first major expansion for Sid Meier's Civilization V for release this coming Spring. The expansion will be titled Civilization V: Gods & Kings, and will introduce new gameplay content as well as nine new civilizations, nine new wonders, three original scenarios, 27 new units, 13 new buildings, new technologies and resources.
2K Games has announced Sid Meier's Civilzation V: Gods and Kings, to be released June 19 2012.
According to the LinkedIn page of a former programmer, Firaxis may be working on an unannounced game, alongside the recent expansions for XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Civilization 5.
A Civ fan on Reddit named Lycerius has been playing the same game of Civilization II for the past ten years. The game has reached the year 3991, and the Earth is not a pretty sight. In fact, the world is pretty much a crapsack place, tortured by the environment and nuclear war.
The Civilization V expansion Gods & Kings will be released on the 19th June, and Firaxis has released a new dev diary "Lead Your Civ to Greatness," which shows off each of the new civilizations that will be included in the expansion, such as Russia, the Netherlands, and the Mongols.
The latest Civilization V update is now available on Steam, and its major feature is adding the Steam Workshop, which will allow modders to customize font icons, unit art, and so on.
2K Games has just put out a new trailer entitled 'Cultivate and Expand' for Civilization V, which is the second behind-the-scenes look at the new expansion pack, which releases tomorrow. Producer Dennis Shirk and Lead Designer Ed Beach give a guided tour to some of the rebuilt game systems in Gods & Kings, like new religion, espionage, combat, and naval mechanics.
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes has grappled gunned its way to the top of the UK all format chart, as FIFA 12 is outperformed by the plastic brick metropolis of Gotham. Civilization V: Gods & Kings for PC entered 16th. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and Max Payne 3 each lost a spot at 3rd and 4th respectively. Blizzard's Diablo III slips down 13th.
Square Enix will be releasing Sleeping Dogs in Japan but it has been cut, with a few alterations made. It's rated CERO Z in the country, meaning it must be asked for at the counter. Alternate camera angles are used in certain sexually themed moments, there is a penalty for harming civilians in certain missions, and an organs exposed scene was also tinkered with.
Gamers who are interested in the Gods & Kings expansion for Civilization V but haven't picked it up can now try out the demo on Steam. All they have to do is visit the official page here.
At the Marvel Games panel today at New York Comic Con at the Javits Center in New York City, Zen Studios' latest downloadable content for Marvel Pinball has been announced, and it will follow the infamous Civil War plotline from 2006.
Valve announces that the Steam Workshop launched this time last year, meaning the community content swap meet is a year old. It began life with Team Fortress 2, adding Skyrim a few months later. Today over 10k "items, mods, quests," and new worlds are hosted for Bethesda's Skyrim. Then came Portal 2, DOTA 2, Civilization V, Total War: Shogun 2 and a bunch of indie games.
The major 1.0.2.13 patch is now available for Civilization V; the patch on Steam will auto-update. The massive list of updates includes bug fixing, play balancing, polishing (especially the user interface) and Windows 8 optimization.
Sharp-eyed gamers may have leaked an unannounced expansion for Civilization V titled One World.
There are whole new civilizations cooking in the pot over at Firaxis as they put slaves to work on the latest expansion wonder for Civilization V. It's called Brave New World and adds the World Congress. There'll also be international trade routes and eight new wonders. Firaxis wanted to beef up diplomacy and so focused a little less on outright hostility. The American Civil War becomes a new scenario.
At their PAX East panel yesterday, Firaxis revealed that their second expansion to Civilization V, Brave New World, will be released on the 9th July.
Firaxis has learnt quite a few things from their initial post launch days with Civilization V, says senior producer Dennis Shirk. Chief among those lessons were that fans craved more than 'just more Civs'. While 'neat' you could play as another civilization, you were still "playing the same game," which is why Firaxis targeted "bigger gameplay systems" with expansions.
All this new-fangled hardware for the next generation consoles wouldn't typically be something a PC centric developer like Firaxis would care much for, but producer Dennis Shirk says they're paying attention. It's what Microsoft and Sony are coming up with that goes into the machines, like Kinect and PS4's new controllers with 'Move built in'. They're becoming "much more attractive" to PC studios.
Take 2 has announced that the publisher earned $1.222B for the fiscal year 2013 ending on the 31st March, crediting such titles as BioShock Infinite, MLB 2K13, and Borderlands 2 downloadable content as the chief source, while older titles also drove sales.
Two more civilizations are birthed with Firaxis' Brave New World expansion for Civilization V. Gaja Mada will be leading Indonesia to greatest while Ahmad al-Mansur will take charge of Morocco. Nine new civilizations in total are added with Brave New World, as well as several new wonders and updated game mechanics. Gods and Kings was the last expansion.