When Civilization 7 launched, its biggest competitors in the genre perhaps were Civ 6, Civ 5, and even Civ 4. We have had other efforts from elsewhere, but if you want to play a game that’s better ...

Marcin Jakubowski is compiling a DIY set of society’s essential machines and making it open-source. You live in a house you designed and built yourself. You rely on the sun for power, heat your home ...

Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light-years distant. Yet despite the odds, scientists insist that continuing the ...

Kimani Vidal reacts in the second half against the Washington Commanders at SoFi Stadium. Gary A. Vasquez / Imagn Images I’m old enough to remember when running backs weren’t getting hurt at every ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Every entry in “Sid Meier’s Civilization” series has a learning curve. The first time players take on a campaign, it’s full of blunders. They have to dig through the new mechanic and discover they ...

The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...

If you want to understand what makes great civilizations possible, consider a walk on Monte Testaccio in central Rome. This 115-foot hill is actually an artificial mound, made up of fragments of ...

Malcolm loves games. Be they trading card games like Magic: the Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh, or tabletop wargames like Heroscape and Warhammer 40K, Malcolm's got a firm passion for all things interactive.

New research is warning that the most likely outcome is that human civilization is poised for collapse. As The Guardian reports, a sweeping new historical survey that analyzes 5,000 years and the ...

Civilization is a legendary strategy series that got its start on PC. It's also a series in which its titles keep getting better after launch, especially as more updates, expansions, and DLCs arrive.