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Civilization V is a turn-based strategy game, where each player represents the leader of a certain nation or ethnic group ("civilization") and must guide its growth over the course of thousands of years. The game starts with the foundation of a small settlement and ends after achieving one of the victory conditions—or surviving until the ...
Civilization is a series of turn-based strategy video games, first released in 1991. [1] Sid Meier developed the first game in the series and has had creative input for most of the rest, [2] and his name is usually included in the formal title of these games, such as Sid Meier's Civilization VI.
Executive Plaza III at 11350 McCormick Road, Hunt Valley, Maryland, home to Firaxis Games' former headquarters Firaxis Software was founded on May 1, 1996, [2] by Sid Meier, Brian Reynolds and Jeff Briggs, three video game designers formerly employed by MicroProse, a video game venture founded by Meier and partner Bill Stealey in 1982. [3]
Civilization series: 1991–2018 MicroProse, Activision, Firaxis Games: Customizable world map. [9] Core Keeper: 2022 Pugstorm: Explorable underground world [10] Crypt of the NecroDancer: 2015 Brace Yourself Games 2D grid-based top-down dungeons with halls and rooms [11] [12] [13] with randomly placed enemies and items. [14] Deep Rock Galactic ...
An example of Nuclear Gandhi as an Internet meme. Nuclear Gandhi is a video game urban legend purporting the existence of a software bug in the 1991 strategy video game Civilization that would eventually force the pacifist leader Mahatma Gandhi to become extremely aggressive and make heavy use of nuclear weapons.
Sid Meier's Civilization V: Game of the Year Edition (2011) includes the original game and all DLC released to date; Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gold (2013) includes the original game, Gods & Kings, and all DLC; Sid Meier's Civilization V: The Complete Edition (2014) includes the original game, both expansion packs, and all DLC [34] [35] [36]
Firaxis Games is an American video game developer based in Sparks, Maryland. [1] It was founded in May 1996 by Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds as Firaxis Software, following their departure from MicroProse, which Meier had co-founded.
Oxide Games focuses primarily on games and game engines for the Personal computer (PC). [2] [3] Initially founded to develop a next-generation game engine and games to use it [4] the studio developed the Nitrous engine to take advantage of new graphics APIs that allowed multiple CPU cores to simultaneously access the GPU such as DirectX 12 and Mantle.