"The changes here are smart but don’t break the established formula, and there’s slimming down and streamlining throughout that are clearly influenced by the game’s handheld success. Combined, this ...

Civilization VII reviews have gone live, and the new entry in the series is proving to be quite divisive with critics. A 4X ...

“We are all living with the history and trauma of colonization,” Shahina Siddiqui, executive director of the Islamic Social Services Association, said. “We have much in common from that ...

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australians celebrated and protested across the country on Sunday as Australia Day drew attention to political differences over Indigenous rights months out from a ...

Alice Jovanée (she/her) is a commerce writer, and she has been writing about gaming and tech since 2005. Prior to Polygon, she worked at publications such as The Verge. Sid Meier’s Civilization ...

Exploration plays an important role in games like Civilization VII, although for some, sending a scout, settler, or explorer off into unknown territory only to find that there's nothing there can ...

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 ...

RTS Fest, Valve’s first big Steam sale of 2025, is happening right now, and if you’re a fan of PC city builders, tactical war games, or other strategy-focused genres, you’ll want to check ...

Civilization made its debut in 1991, and while it was far from the first strategy game on the market, it was a pioneer of the 4X genre. Each Civilization entry since the franchise's debut has ...

It does. I’m happy. As someone who has somewhere in the region of a thousand hours logged across Civ 4, 5, and 6, I’m ready to add hundreds more to that tally in the seventh entry. Some of ...