Sid Meier's Civilization IV News

Civilization IV song wins Grammy Award
American composer Christopher Tin takes home Grammy Award for Civilization IV opening song Baba Yetu; marks the first time a video game composition has won in the awards' history.
News - Posted Feb 14, 2011 3:56 am GMT
Civilization coming to Facebook in 2010
Sid Meier announces that his time-consuming strategy sim will soon conquer the time-consuming social network with a new multiplayer app.
News - Posted Oct 22, 2009 12:32 am GMT
Spot On: Fixing UK game development
The Digital Britain report contained dire warnings about the state of the British game industry--but also laid out plans for how to get things back on track.
News - Posted Jun 18, 2009 11:45 am GMT
Shippin' Out May 10-16: Battlestations: Pacific, Sacred 2 360/PS3
Eidos' WWII naval-war sim and CDV's RPG join Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball, Civilization IV: The Complete Edition, and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon on the week's docket.
News - Posted May 10, 2009 8:26 pm GMT
US PC Charts Mar. 15-21: Empire: Total War fortifies top slot
Sega and Creative Assembly's historical RTS action title retains pole position in the NPD Group's weekly sales recap.
News - Posted Apr 2, 2009 7:54 pm GMT
February US PC charts feel Wrath of the Lich King
NPD reports World of Warcraft expansion's reign at retail has extended for another moon; Sims 2 Double Deluxe takes silver, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II bangs out bronze.
News - Posted Mar 13, 2009 11:32 pm GMT
GDC '08: Sid Meier, Game Tycoon
Affable industry legend speaks about his beginnings, casual games, Civilization, collaboration, and the current state of independent development.
News - Posted Feb 23, 2008 2:21 am GMT
Daily Downloads: Civilization IV, DiRT patches
Sid Meier's latest gets updated along with its expansions, Colin McRae racer gets a tune-up, MGS4 receives two wallpaper packs.
News - Posted Jul 24, 2007 1:34 am GMT
E3 '07: Civ IV enters Golden age
Gold Edition of Sid Meier's popular turn-based strategy game to include original, Warlords expansion, extras.
News - Posted Jul 9, 2007 10:26 pm GMT
2K Games closing NYC office
Take-Two shuttering its subsidiary's Manhattan operation, reportedly moving most staffers out West.
News - Posted Jun 15, 2007 1:21 am GMT
BizSpots: GameFlood, Foundation 9, McGee, Halo and KOF films
King of Fighters gets the big-screen treatment, Turbo Squid's new user-made-content site launches, American McGee's Grimm gets GameTapped, and Peter Jackson might still produce the Halo movie.
News - Posted May 29, 2007 11:31 pm GMT
Civilization IV designer Spore-s new gig
Electronic Arts confirms Soren Johnson has left his 2K Games gig and joined the dev team of Will Wright's forthcoming evolutionary simulation game.
News - Posted Apr 18, 2007 9:49 pm GMT
Civilization IV expands
Add-on for the popular Sid Meier game series coming in July, will include 12 new scenarios and five new wonders.
News - Posted Mar 28, 2007 3:26 pm GMT
PC gaming stops slide in 2006
NPD numbers show slight growth in US retail sales of PC games for the year, figures still down from 2004.
News - Posted Jan 19, 2007 7:34 pm GMT
2K building up Steam
Publisher joins ranks of third-party publishers distributing games via Valve Software's digital distribution service; Civilization III and IV due later this week.
News - Posted Oct 24, 2006 11:22 pm GMT
GameStop, EB digitally distributed
Zuma, Worms, Airport Tycoon among the PC games now being offered online by North America's top game retailers.
News - Posted Oct 10, 2006 7:52 pm GMT
US PC game charts: September 17-23
Company of Heroes conquers the NPD top 10 this week, which sees the discounted Tiger Woods 2006 and Sim City 4 reenter the charts.
News - Posted Oct 5, 2006 11:45 pm GMT
US PC Game Charts: September 3-9
Top three spots remain unchanged from last week; remainder of list sees big turnover as older games return to chart.
News - Posted Sep 24, 2006 1:06 am GMT
2K boxing Civilizations I-IV
Take-Two label to release $70 nine-title compilation featuring all four Firaxis "god games" and five expansions.
News - Posted Sep 7, 2006 10:25 pm GMT
US PC game charts: August 20-26
Madden sacks WOW for the top spot on NPD's weekly best-seller list; Railroad Tycoon, Warcraft III, and Elder Scrolls IV reenter top 10.
News - Posted Sep 6, 2006 12:37 am GMT