Civilization on Facebook aiming for summer launch
by Alexander Sliwinski 
on May 11th 2011 9:30PM
Civilization World, the Facebook incarnation of the epic strategy series, is expected to launch this summer. A recent piece by
CNN, in which Firaxis emperor Sid Meier called
Civ World "the most dramatic stretch" the series has seen so far, as Meier expressed a typical
Civ multiplayer game can easily span 12 or more continuous hours, but the Facebook version can start and stop over days and weeks.
The last major "stretch" for
Civilization -- if you don't consider
hex-based boards totally crazy -- was the console-based
Civilization Revolution. Despite taking the core elements of
Civ and doing a great job of bringing it to consoles, it apparently
wasn't good enough for a sequel.
