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After taking over six months off from playing the game, I got dragged back into playing Sid Meier’s Civilization V by the announcement of the games first expansion, Gods & Kings. The reviews for the expansion are already out, even though us Mac users can only just download it. Not all the reviews are favourable, [...]

Civilization did not spring fully conceived from the mind of Sid Meier back in 1991. It was an extension of his previous work such as Pirates! and more directly Railroad Tycoon. It was also influenced by the board game Civilization, it’s successors such as Advanced Civilization and to a lessor extent History of the World. [...]

Everyone else is talking about Diablo III, but I actually started my first game of Sid Meier’s Civilization V since 11-11-6 today. My eyes were starting to glaze over as I tried to read three chapters on economics. Yesterday I went to Civ Fanatics for the first time in almost six months to read their [...]

I know Lion was coming.  I follow people on Twitter.  They tweeted about starting to download.  I decided I would upgrade and then see whether my mom and sister should upgrade.  I’ve been using OS X since the public beta.  I have a lot of experience using computers, upgrading computers, developing software, etc. etc.  The [...]

At some point, an old buddy of mine joined Facebook or found me on Facebook and then after that asked me to play Empires & Allies.  Pierre and I played games online and offline back in the day or somewhat back in the day so I figured what the hell.  I think this is the [...]