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Crushing news: Brian Reynold confirmed the development of Civilization III on the official newsgroup:
Hi All,
Civ fans everywhere will, I'm sure, be interested to learn that we have just announced (at E3 last night) that we will be developing Sid Meier's Civilization III as one of our upcoming products, to be published under the Microprose label by Hasbro Interactive!
This is a brand-spanking new development, so I'm not ready to go into loads of detail just yet, but I do plan to stay in touch on the newsgroups during the development of the game, because I think every Civ fan has an idea in his/her head about what Civ 3 should be. We'll do a "call for features" once we have a serious prototype we like.
To answer some of the most obvious and burning questions--
(1) yes, many of the important strong points of Alpha Centauri will (where appropriate) be incorporated into Civ3, so don't worry your little (big?) heads about that. :-)
(2) Yes, we're still working on Alpha Centauri upgrades, expansions, etc. In fact, as Sid announced last night, we see Alpha Centauri and the Civ 1-2-3 series as two members of a broader Sid Meier "Sweep of Time" trilogy we want to create; wherein your actions and success in one game can affect your situation in the next. We'll talk about the third, yet-to-be-announced, member of the trilogy later.
(3) yes, we will be working with both Hasbro/Microprose and EA as publishers of our various products.
(4) yes, we have some really exciting ideas about how to make Civ 3 the best turn-based strategy game yet.
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