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One intrepid modder has produced the leaders Civilization 5 clearly always needed: Beavis and Butthead.

2K Games has announced plans to announce a new XCOM game at Gamescom. It'll likely be XCOM: Enemy Within for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.

Almost three years after launch, Civilization V's promised Pitboss multiplayer mode is finally arriving today in a new patch. The update also brings an observer mode, support for custom maps in multiplayer, AI tweaks, new terrain art, bug fixes, and more, making everything spick-and-span for the launch of the Brave New World expansion next week.

A Civilization 5 "Brave New World" launch trailer gives a rousing summary of humanity's accomplishments over the last century.

Firaxis details how it picks the new cultures going into a Civilization 5 expansion, using the nine set for the upcoming Brave New World as an example.

Just how did soft-spoken, but brilliant strategy designer Sid Meier end up having his name as part of almost all his games?

While we were distracted gushing over horseback stealth and hair dragons last week during E3, 2K Games quietly released another Civilization V: Gods & Kings trailer. Now that we've had time to see it, hey, it's a short but interesting look at one of the expansion's big new features: the World Congress and its new diplomatic win.

We were jolly pleased when we got to play the iOS port of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and soon you should be too. The proper full game, which we're assured has "no free-to-play aspects to it," will launch this Thursday, June 20, at $19.99.