Valve has released their weekly top ten sellers list on Steam for the week ending on October 17.
It might be THQ Week at Steam but that doesn't stop them from offering deals on other companies' games. Sid Meier's Civilization IV is now 50% off until Friday.
From Strategyinformer.com: "This mod from the Dune Wars Team is a total conversion. Features include: + 9 playable factions + Spice and Harvesters + Massive sandworms + Pay the guild to transport troops from your homeworld + Water, Offworld Trade, Unique Civ Abilities, Terraforming and more."
An update for 2K's strategy game Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword has been released on Steam and is now available to users.
This mod by ManiacTehGreat has as goal to recapture the atmosphere and story of SMAC, but create an improved gameplay with the tools offered by Civ4.
Direct2Drive is having a great sale on their catalog of 2K Games including BioShock, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, MLB2K9 and more for under $10.
Steam has listed Civ IV and it's expansions in The Complete Edition bundle that carries all four games at a cheaper price.
A bored had a few beers in the evening and decided to fire up Civilization IV on a lark. After he got a bit established, he found myself thinking in the voice of a propaganda minister, and then like a real party wonk of the GOP. So he decided to approach nation building as though he were a very enthusiastic American of the 21st century.
Lots of gameplay tweaks, bugfixes and enhancements: A new patch for Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword is now available, bringing to v3.17 the second expansion to the strategy sequel developed by Firaxis Games.
MCV: Head of Firaxis Games Sid Meier has said that he finds the prospect of a Civilization MMO 'really intriguing' ¿ and hinted that it may soon become a reality.
Basically, if you don't have it by now, this is the time to jump on it. "This is what PC strategy is all about: hour after hour of interesting decisions and nail-biting conflicts. The single-player game alone is remarkable, but the addition of multiplayer (and yes, it actually works this time) puts it over the top." - GameSpy.
Civilization IV, a game so addictive it has its own support group, joins GameTap this week as the 1000th title on the service. Civ IV, under lead designer Soren Johnson (who is currently trying to make a game out of Spore), was the Civilization game that brought an incredible amount of accessibility to the epic franchise. Whether Civ IV expansion packs, Warlords or Beyond the Sword, are integrated into this version for the GameTap service is unknown, but perhaps they'll be added at a later date. For GameTap subscribers who have even the slightest hint of interest in an accessible strategy game and somehow missed Civ IV, along with Sid Meier's Pirates! which was made available a couple weeks ago, now is the time to try them on the service.
The new issue of PCGZine rates Bioshock with its highest score to date, claiming it reinvents the FPS genre and should excite all gamers, even jaded games journalists.
2K Games has released a playable demo of Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, giving you the chance to try out the second expansion pack for Civilization IV developed by Firaxis Games. The expansion will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder and will deliver 12 challenging and decidedly different scenarios, ten new civilizations, 16 new leaders, five new wonders, and a variety of new units. Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword will be available the week of July 23 in the US and at the end of July internationally.
Today 2K announced the second expansion for Civilization IV, Beyond the Sword, will be released the week of July 23 in the U.S. The rest of the civilized world will move Beyond the Sword at the end of July. The pack will be the largest expansion in the history of the Civilization franchise.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword is the second expansion pack for Civilization IV - the 2005 PC Game of the Year and a major commercial success, selling over 1.5 million units worldwide since its October 2005 release. The expansion will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder and will deliver 12 challenging and decidedly different scenarios created by the development team at Firaxis Games, as well as members of the Civilization Fan Community. Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword will also include ten new civilizations, 16 new leaders, five new wonders, and a variety of new units that will offer even more fun and exciting ways for players to expand their civilization's power as they strive for world domination.