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"Everybody's in competition with Civ": Lead Civilization 5 composer has been in the "volatile" gaming industry for over 20 years and thinks new IP is only getting harder to make

Flutes, clarinets, and a delicate piccolo flutter like birds trying to find each other across a mountaintop. The trumpet blinks out another proud melody as violins, dark and heavy, cluster like ivy.
IGN

Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5

Civilization 7 developer Firaxis has outlined the game’s crucial update 1.1.1, which hits at a time when the recently released strategy game has fewer players on Steam than Civilization 6 and even the ...
The New York Times

In Civilization VII, Empires Rise and Stereotypes Start to Fall

The turn-based strategy game has two Ph.D. historians on the design team and a palpable appreciation of cultures across the globe. It also maintains a deeply colonialist worldview. By Rollo Romig You ...
Post and Courier

Review: 'Pathogenesis' traces the influence of microbes on the history of civilization

PATHOGENESIS: A History of the World in Eight Plaques. By Jonathan Kennedy. Crown. 304 pages. $30. Histories of the world generally credit great men for steering the course of events to the safety of ...