Civilization VI

2K and Firaxis will be toning down the climate change down a bit in the upcoming Civilization VI update, which should almost double the time between sea changes. The update also brings a bunch of rebalancing and a few announcements too.

By tradition, no Civilization game is complete until the second expansion. We've been playing a preview of Civilization VI: Gathering Storm courtesy of the kind folk at 2K Games UK. That all important second expansion. Does it deliver?

Civilization VI: Gathering Storm should be the expansion that truly defines the most recent and advanced of the Civilization series. Do the added levels of complexity and the greater number of decisions to be made make all the difference?

Pablo Escobar of the ancient gold trade, the man whose exploits should've changed his name to the Goldfather, is making a return in Civilization VI: Gathering Storm as the leader of Mali, having skipped appearing in the earlier instalment.

Hungary becomes the first officially announced new Civ for the Civilization VI: Gathering Storm expansion. Primarily focused on production and military power, it's led by Matthias Corvinus and will be strong for the new Diplomacy victory

Firaxis gave a first glimpse of the new expansion for Civilization VI, with some radical new mechanics and concepts as well as some looked-for changes to existing gameplay and a whole new era into which to take the leading strategy game.

All the Civilization VI leaders so far - and what we know about them. Civilization VI sees a few old faces return, but mostly it's all change, with both new civilizations and new leaders for civs we know from previous editions of the series

2K Games have confirmed that the one-more-turn monstrosity Civilization VI will be coming to Nintendo's Switch consoles on 16 November 2018, along with four pieces of additional content and four civs exclusive to Nintendo's platform.

Civilization VI's expansion Rise and Fall seems to have rolled out a bit early for the underpaying and overpaying components of the IT sector, Linux and Mac, seeing as how it has no March patch applied, which means no PC cross-play.

It seems Firaxis' engineers could use a few language lessons, because it just so turns out that a simple spelling error in one of Civilization VI's data files was behind the AI's strange behaviour, and Firaxis agrees.