{"id":2205,"date":"2010-02-18T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2010-02-18T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:55:00","slug":"civilization-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/18\/civilization-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilization 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilization5.com\/\">Firaxis and 2k Games have announced that <em>Civilization 5<\/em> is on the way<\/a>. Reports of the game were leaked earlier today at <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.civfanatics.com\/showthread.php?s=3588d86b76b69f3fd503fdcf994ca353&#038;p=8910554#post8910554\">CivFanatics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not really a surprise. We all knew another <em>Civilization<\/em> would come sooner or later and it&#8217;s been five years. And no one complains more than I do about Firaxis mining its past for gold when all the talent there could be doing something newer, albeit riskier. Civ is, after all, a durable and profitable franchise.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still excited, though. The <em>Civ<\/em> series has never really failed to please me, even <em>Civ 3<\/em> which is sort of the black sheep of the family stuck between the isometric glories of Brian Reynolds&#8217;s <em>Civilization 2<\/em> and the general genius of Soren Johnson&#8217;s <em>Civilization 4<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A contact at Firaxis I approached for comment assured me that I would like some of the changes and probably not like others. Such is the way of the world. <\/p>\n<p>Fall 2010, so very, very soon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamepro.com\/article\/news\/214082\/civilization-v-announced-on-next-gamepro-cover\/\">You can read about it in this month&#8217;s GamePro.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firaxis and 2k Games have announced that Civilization 5 is on the way. Reports of the game were leaked earlier today at CivFanatics. This is not really a surprise. We all knew another Civilization would come sooner or later and it&#8217;s been five years. And no one complains more than I do about Firaxis mining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-zz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}