Announcing Civilization Network!

[Sid Meier]

Hello Civ Fans!

I wanted to let you know we’ll soon be looking for beta testers to help us develop a unique new way to play Civilization. Ever since we finished Civilization® Revolution™ last year, I’ve been looking at ways of expanding the Civ gameplay experience to include solo, competitive and cooperative play to take advantage of the uniqueness of social networks. We’re calling this project Civilization® Network™ and the full game will be available next year on Facebook. Civilization Network will allow you to join together with your friends to create the world’s most powerful, richest, smartest, or just plain coolest civilization. You can coordinate your strategy to win great battles, share your technology to jump ahead of your rivals, lobby your family and friends to form your own government and win vital elections, manage and grow your cities to maximize production and happiness, spy on your enemies, and work with your friends to create the great Wonders of the World. The game will offer everything you enjoy in Civ in a fully persistent environment - you can play as much as you like, whenever you like, and it’ll be free to play.

We’ll offer a closed beta of the game soon, so stay tuned for details on how you can sign-up to participate. The full game will launch in 2010. For more information about Civilization Network, including development updates and behind-the-scenes posts from me and the Firaxis team, join our Facebook fanpage here: www.facebook.com/civnetwork.

Thanks and Stay Civilized!

Sid Meier
Director of Creative Development
Firaxis Games

[TheMystic]

Hey Sid! I made this post sticky, and I'd like to be the first to say I'm extremely interested to see Civilization Network in action. I'd be happy to help beta test it as well.

[Judgeofwings]

Awesome,i can't wait to see the unveiling.I just became a fan on facebook,keep up the good work sid.

[Bantams]

great but wheres civ5?

[headkase]

Originally Posted by Bantams

great but wheres civ5?

Personally I'd like to see Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri / Alien Crossfire revisited! Its Civ but futuristic! I don't really enjoy Civ3-4 until the end-game because of the presentation/setting but with SMAC thats where it starts and just gets better from there! Thank you for many years of enjoyment Sid!

[ATC 1982]

Looking to see this in action and maybe will get me to use Facebook awhole lot more.

[Hellogoodbye123]

why not myspace?

[ATC 1982]

http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_s...while-yet.html

Appears the Beta may be coming in June. One can only hope

[S3r4ph]

I would be interested, have played civ since the original back in the early 90's... Have also beta tested for Steam, WoW, Everquest, Matrix Online, and most recently Stargate Worlds....

[Jamie1926]

I am interested in beta testing!