A radical tweak makes Civilization more realistic—and more depressing.

Now that Civilizations and Leaders are separate, there are so many different iconic Leaders that could shine within Sid Meier ...

The turn-based strategy game has two Ph.D. historians on the design team and a palpable appreciation of cultures across the ...

Get to know Jose Rizal, one of the national heroes of the Philippines and a playable leader in Sid Meier's Civilization VII.

Civilization 7 takes place across three Ages that separate the pace of the game, with the Modern Age serving as the endgame ...

Civilization 7's newly-introduced Ages have been the subject of some debate, but the change of pace Ages create could ...

Unlike previous Civilization titles, Sid Meier's Civilization 7 has broken the game down into three distinct ages, and that ...

One of the world's biggest and oldest video games tackles no less thorny a subject than all of recorded history. The designers of "Civilization 7," out Tuesday, discuss the dramatic changes they’ve ...

History doesn’t always move forward in the routine, turn-based lock step of the 4X genre (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) that Civilization popularized. More often, root causes like ...

In many ways, the game plays like a thoughtful cosmetic update. You select a civilization and a leader, with options that aren’t only the obvious ones (all hail Empress Harriet Tubman!).

From Looney Toons characters to shark teeth to pinup models, nose art on aircraft has a storied history in air forces around ...