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Firaxis Overhauls Civ 7: Single-Civ Play and Reworked Victories are Finally Here

When Sid Meier’s Civilization VII launched back in February 2025, it was undeniably a gorgeous, technically impressive powerhouse of a strategy game. However, it also came with a few design…

Chris May 20, 2026

Reviews

Four Years Later: Why Midnight Suns Remains Marvel’s Most Unique Game

When we first heard that Firaxis Games, the absolute legends behind XCOM, were making a Marvel game, most of us expected XCOM with a superhero skin. We imagined Iron Man…

Chris April 19, 2026

Retro-Games

Beyond Earth: Why Alpha Centauri Still Rules the Stars

Release Date: February 9, 1999 Developer: Firaxis Games Get It On: GOG When people talk about the "Golden Age" of strategy games, they usually point toward the late nineties. It…

Chris January 22, 2026