Civilization 7 may follow in the footsteps of the series' history, but there's no doubt that it presents a bold vision for the future of the franchise. Whether its most drastic decisions will be ...

Civilization 7 is launching next year, bringing the addictive fun of civic policies and the surreal hilarity of Gandhi threatening to nuke everyone with alarming regularity to modern PCs and consoles.

Max has loved video games ever since he booted up his friend's N64 and played Mario Kart. He quickly spent all his allowance on any game he could get his hands on, and spent hours playing a dusty PS2.

Why did we take so long to invent civilisation? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago. But initial steps towards civilisation – harvesting, then domestication of crop ...