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Platform Win, Mac, iOS Publisher 2K Games Developer Firaxis Games Release Date Early 2015

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Sid Meier's Starships review: space oddity

By Charlie Hall on Apr 17, 2015 04.17.15

Sid Meier's Starships is a game trying to please too many masters. Its intention, from the opening cinematic, is to create an epic space opera. But in execution, it falls in that weird...

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April 20, 2015: Xbox E3, Star Wars: Rogue One, GTA 5, Battlefront, Alan Wake 2, Firefly

By Dave Tach on Apr 20, 2015 04.20.15

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Sid Meier on how Starships was designed to encourage players to channel their inner admiral

By Charlie Hall on Mar 10, 2015 03.10.15

There are many different branches on the science fiction tree, a fact that famed game designer Sid Meier knows just as well as anyone. The trouble is, not all of those branches are easy for the...

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Watch 15 minutes of interstellar strategy in Sid Meier's Starships

By Griffin McElroy on Feb 24, 2015 02.24.15

Sid Meier's Starships is a wild departure from the Civilization series from whence it sprung. Its mechanics are all streamlined versions of their counterparts in Firaxis' long-running strategy...

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We engage with Sid Meier's Starships (correction)

By Charlie Hall on Feb 24, 2015 02.24.15

This spring, one of the greatest computer game designers of all time will launch a spiritual successor to Civilization: Beyond Earth. Oddly enough, it plays very much like a lavish tabletop...

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Sid Meier's Starships is all about ship customization, tactical combat

By Griffin McElroy on Jan 24, 2015 01.24.15

Sid Meier's Starships, the recently announced downloadable follow-up to last year's Civilization: Beyond Earth, takes the strategy franchise in a bold new direction — where no Civ game has gone...

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Sid Meier's Starships coming to PC, Mac and iPad in early 2015 from Firaxis

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 19, 2015 01.19.15

Sid Meier's Starships is the latest turn-based strategy title from Firaxis Games, and it will allow players to "build a planetary federation" in an effort to secure peace for the galaxy, publisher...