Elf Blood

By the time you read this blog post, Sid Meier’s Civilisation: Beyond Earth will have been released.

And, like a chump, I didn’t book today off. Instead of getting lost in pure science-fiction fantasy, I’ll be processing organisation structures and redefining data… ’til five o’clock anyway. Then it’s Civ all the way! Aside from maybe a writing stop or two.

I love the Civilisation games. I’m not really all that good at strategy games, but I get a great amount of enjoyment from Civ. I particularly love the exploration phase – there’s nothing quite like the feeling of uncovering new terrain, and spotting new resources… and threats. read more