Video game publisher Electronic Arts seems to be ready to mine its rich history for franchises that have captured the imagination of gamers and could be revived and updated to meet the requirements of the contemporary market.Frank Gibeau, who is the leader of the EA Labels division at Electronic Arts, has told CVG th... |
22 August 2011
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has filed two trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office linked to one of the best strategy games of the last twenty years, Alpha Centauri, suggesting that the company might be ready to create another title using the same concepts and mechanics.The first of the ... |
11 August 2011
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Publisher 2K Games and developer Firaxis have surprised everyone by announcing that Civilization V would be coming in the fall of this year with a host of changes to the underlying mechanics that seem very appealing to long time fans of the franchise and those who spent hundreds of hours reaching for space or militar... |
19 May 2010
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One of the big stories of 2009, which is sure to also develop this year, is the rise of so-called social games, mostly played through Facebook. The biggest developer of such titles, Zynga, is currently saying that there are 235 million people playing its games at the moment, while the second placed player in the mark... |
19 February 2010
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Ever since binary star systems were first discovered, experts have been wondering as to whether they can sustain Earth-sized exoplanets or not. The two stars usually exert massive gravitational forces on each other, forces that could easily disintegrate a planetary body, assuming they allowed for it to form in the fi... |
2 February 2010
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Now that Firaxis and 2K Games have released Civilization IV: Colonization, the updated version of the classic Sid Meier game launched way back in 1994, I have a small request to make: Please, please get all the necessary rights and create a re-make of the Brian Reynolds made Alpha Centauri.Bryan Reynolds is one of th... |
26 September 2008
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It is the closest star system to Earth, located only 4.4 light years away, and best of all, it may also have rocky planets like Earth orbiting around it. Alpha Centauri represents a triple system, composed of two average stars relatively similar to the Sun, and a red dwarf. It is argued whether we will be able to go ... |
13 March 2008
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There are possibly millions of Earth-like planets lying out there in the immensity of the universe, each bearing just the proper conditions for the appearance and evolution of life, we just have to find them. Only a decade ago or so, the human race wasn't even capable of telling whether nearby stars, or any star... |
29 February 2008
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