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

Scientists argue ape-like Sahelanthropus tchadensis that lived in Africa 7m years ago is best contender but more fossils are needed ...

The secret to its rapid transit is in its chemistry. Ethanol, to give booze its proper name, is a tiny, agile molecule. It has a backbone of two carbon atoms and is soluble in water. It can hop over ...

However cool all of Humankind's big bright ideas sound in theory, they work even better in practice. That's my takeaway from a day with an early build of the historical 4X by Amplitude, the biggest ...

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey was launched last year to a rather lukewarm reception, pertaining mostly to a steep difficulty curve that left players to fend for themselves with little to no ...

Civilization 7 hasn't quite been the 4X game many of us hoped for so far. Huge changes to progression and issues with the user interface have marred the launch, but developer Firaxis is already hard ...

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 ...

Why Raze a Conquered City? The main reason people are having trouble razing a city is the lack of an option to do so to a recently captured enemy city. When a city is taken, it becomes part of the ...

Civilization gets its first real competition in 30 years, but can this new pretender really beat the king of 4X strategy? Sometimes things are exactly what they seem to be. The second you see a ...

Russ Boswell has been playing games ever since he was old enough to hold a controller. He started his love for gaming with the NES and Super Mario Bros. specifically. Over the years, he has collected ...