John is a Toronto-based author who does photography in his spare time. When not being insulted over Xbox Live, he spends his time playing soccer and perpetually napping. His favorite games include ...

Civilization 4 is an epic of a game. The strategy game puts you in charge of a settlement and tasks you with expansion: Do you conquer everyone else? Control most of the land? Head to the stars?

For the first time in history, a Grammy Award has been given to a video game song. Dang. It's about time, people. The song — "Baba Yetu" — is the theme song for the game "Civilization IV" and, at ...

As part of our ongoing series that reviews the history of popular game franchises, TechSpot ran down the games in the Civilization franchise. We had an opportunity to sit down with the composer of the ...