Sid Meier has a posse.
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
2K Games has a pretty rad promotion going on for its upcoming Civilization Revolution, a console take on the long-running game series. Shepard Fairey (you know, the guy behind the now-ubiquitous “OBEY” street art campaign) designed a badass poster featuring series standby Napoleon. Check it out at the official site in the “download” section. Credit at 2K should go to community manager extraordinaire Elizabeth Tobey.
I played Civilization Revolution a few months ago. It seems very promising to me. Civilization–the first one–was one of the games that really turned me into a hardcore gamer. I had played PC games before then (didn’t have any consoles until the mid-90s), mainly adventure games, but Civilization was the kind of consuming addiction that set off what has since become a lifetime hobby. (more…)