Civilization: Beyond Earth Now on Linux

Linux players looking to have a happier holiday can now pick up Sid Meier’s hit turn-based strategy game, Civilization: Beyond Earth for Linux. The game is available for Linux through the Steam Online gaming platform and other retailers.  Civilization: Beyond Earth is a current contender for Game of the Year, and received 4 GiN Gems in the Gameindustry.com review of the game for the PC. Publishers: 2K Games Developers: Firaxis Games Platforms: Linux

Civilization Beyond Earth Announced

2K and Firaxis Games today announced that Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth™, a new science fiction-themed entry in the award-winning Civilization franchise, is currently in development by Firaxis Games for Windows-based PC. The game will also be coming to Mac and Linux via Aspyr Media. Scheduled for release this fall, Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth will send players on an expedition from Earth to lead their people into a new frontier to explore and colonize an alien planet, and create a new civilization. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth will propel the development of human civilization beyond the traditional timeline of … Continue reading Civilization Beyond Earth Announced

XCOM: Enemy Within Now Beaming Into Stores

2K and Firaxis Games announced today that XCOM: Enemy Within, the expanded experience for the Game of the Year award-winning strategy title, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, is available today in North America and will be available internationally on November 15, 2013 for Windows PC, Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. In XCOM: Enemy Within, players can modify their soldiers genetically to enhance their operatives’ abilities or transform their soldiers into cybernetic warriors. These new abilities and units are imperative to combat two new aliens, the Mechtoid and the Seeker. In addition to new … Continue reading XCOM: Enemy Within Now Beaming Into Stores

Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol Now Available

2K and Firaxis Games today announced the launch of the critically acclaimed turn-based strategic aerial combat game, Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol, on Steam. Now available to download for $9.99 on Windows PC’s worldwide, Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol for Steam is a premium version of the free-to-play iOS title, which launched in May 2013. The title currently boasts a 4.5/5 star user rating on the App Store, and allows gamers to relive WWI history as they pilot the skies in defense of their base camp and allies. "At Firaxis, one of our biggest objectives is to deliver great games to our … Continue reading Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol Now Available

Launch Trailer For XCOM: Declassified

We are at war, and not the one we were expecting. Our combined military forces have been routed. The comms have gone dark. The red phone will not be ringing. We now face an opponent from beyond our world, and they have technology decades beyond what we possess ‘ we must make it our own. Their weapons will become our weapons, and when they do, we shall annihilate them. You now have new orders ‘ survive, adapt, win. http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=x2-tO8pj1ds Publishers: 2K Games Developers: Firaxis Games Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Xcom Declassified: Last Defense

2K Games and 2K Marin have just released a new gameplay video for the upcoming third-person tactical shooter, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. This video focuses on the life and death situations players will make as Special Agent William Carter. You and the able men of The Bureau are humanity’s last line of defense and a wrong order can mean death for not only The Bureau’s agents, but humanity as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=b33CAYVBAlQ Publishers: 2K Games Developers: Firaxis Games Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360