From family reunions to first meetings and contagious laughter, these Humankind stories capture the moments that brought ...

I've had the privilege of playing Humankind four times now. The first press demo was almost a year ago, and was followed by the Lucy and then Victor OpenDev sessions. On this latest occasion, the game ...

It took a bit longer than expected, but Humankind is finally here. Amplitude and Sega's new 4X game wants Civilization's crown, and they're making a serious attempt at ousting Firaxis from its throne ...

There's something kind of special about playing a new 4X game, especially a historical one. These games are about playing through history - all of history - which means that as much as they're about ...

The secret to its rapid transit is in its chemistry. Ethanol, to give booze its proper name, is a tiny, agile molecule. It ...

Humankind is much like Civilization in that there will inevitably come a point when you look up and realise you've been playing for 10 hours straight and work starts in two hours. The most immediate ...

John has been writing about videogames for almost a decade, and playing them for almost three. His greatest passion is for Grand Strategy and immersive RPGs, but he's dabbled in pretty much every ...

HUMANKIND is the next big historical strategy game. That’s both a statement of its aims and my feelings about it. Honestly, if you’re into strategy games and history in the slightest, that’ll probably ...

For a long time, Sid Meier’s Civilization reigned as the king of the turn-based, society-building genre. Civilization's take on 4X strategy games, with its focus on empires, cities, and territorial ...