Firaxis Reveals New Interstellar Strategy Game, Sid Meier's Starships

another kickin game from sid meier. this guy is a god.

Sid Meyer wants in on that Star Citizen micro transaction 'pledge' cash cow...

Oooh, I like it. I was underwhelmed by Beyond Earth, to be honest, but this sounds promising. Still, Spring is almost here-- how can there not be real visuals to show?

I learned nothing...

After the half-hearted effort we got from Civ Beyond Earth, I have no faith in this one. From the little that we see of the actual game elements, it doesn't even look appealing. This is likely to be more rushed and less of a real game than civ beyond earth. For a new 4x game I'll be looking to Gal Civ3 and Stardrive 2.

Which is a real pity. Cause if any company that has the experience, talent and resources to make an outstanding and rich turn based game, its Firaxis (ex XCOM, civ5).

Hopefully they'll double the price for the Australian market for no reason at all like they usually do. That will save me having to play it. I really don't have the time since I'm playing non 2K games that price their products fairly.

looks pretty ordinary

I think this will be something along the lines of Sid Meier's Ace Patrol. Fairly simple and not real deep. It has to run off an iPad processor and storage, after all. The AI isn't going to be groundbreaking. He seems to get these wild hairs and whip out a little game in a short time with just a few developers.

Not trying to be a downer, this looks and feels almost exactly like Galactic Civilization III. I love the Civilization series but was really disappointed with BE. It was shallow and, once you played all the factions, formulaic...there was no polish and the game just felt rushed and uninspired. I really hope this isn't GalCiv 3 with a different name.

Everytime i see a game like this being realeased i just fell sad that its not Homeworld 3.

Totally read that wrong, thought it said "Interstellar" strategy game T_T

If only they would release it on console, however clichéd/bland/disappointing, some of us wouldn't complain...

Looks like this is right up my street and I hope it's not a money grab, I like Firaxis.. loved what they did with XCOM.... with Sid Meier behind it ... it should be good.

oh look, another cash in.

I hope the rest of Firaxis are making a sequel to XCOM: EU.

iPad huh?

"hexgrid, turnbased, iPad / mobile, 2K as publisher" and "cross connectivity between game versions" (so in other words it's "gaming as a service" / online only DRM nonsense) - well, too bad, I was looking forward to something like "Sid Meier's Pirates!" but in space.

This announcement however makes it appear pretty uninteresting and since it's also for mobile I bet it's safe to assume it'll be as accessible and casual as possible and has micropayments / paywalls / grindy progression locks and all that "good stuff".

Sounds like a safe skip, will wait for devblogs and gameplay videos but basically I have no hope for this.

On the other hand I'm enjoying "Starsector" (formerly "Starfarer") and "Wayward Terran Frontier" (even though it's extremely early in development) and in about 3 months time I'm sure "Space Pirates and Zombies 2" will be a ton of fun, just to mention a few.

So yet another Microtransaction riddled mobile game with a crappy PC port. No thanks.

Beyond Earth was a spit to the gamers soul. Sid in haste to durp a second time?

seems more fresh than Beyond Earth. bring it on!

Galactic Civilizations

I hope it is a civilization genre game in space, and not just a panzer general (or gettysburg) type with spaceships