Can you remember the first time you played a Civilization game, and what it was that got you hooked? Was it the exploration? Empire management? Warfare? Without a doubt this 4X series is a cornerstone ...

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A Reddit user named Lycerius has been playing the same game of Civilization II for a decade, and his in-game world has turned out pretty grim by the year 3991. The Civilization games are grand ...

Last year's Galactic Civilization II: Dread Lords was a real revelation in the area of 4X space games. Combining loads of depth and variability with a slick and convenient interface, it very nearly ...

Conspiracy theorists and doomsday-goers can feel a bit better today -- or worse, depending on how you look at it. Screenshots and videos have spread through the Internet like wildfire these past few ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Slowly but surely, Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords is coming together at last. We first saw the sequel to 2003's popular turn-based strategy ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition Originally released on 2006-2-21, Galactic Civilizations II (GalCiv II) is a 4X Grand strategy game set in the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While space strategy games are remembered fondly by strategy game veterans, there aren't too many of these games around these days. Fortunately, ...

It's the year 3991 A.D., the three massive super nations, the Celts, Vikings and Americans, are locked in a 1,700-year war, the ice caps have melted 20 times over, and one Reddit user is now a decade ...

Tastes are funny. Some people out there will play anything just so long as it has the word "tycoon" on the box. Others will only really respond to mowing down legions of alien zombie Nazi robots with ...

We reported earlier this week that a 10-year-long game of the 1996 PC strategy game Civilization II had turned the world into a "hellish nightmare of suffering and destruction", according to the ...