Is Civilization Still Relevant?
Have cultural and geopolitical changes rendered the Civilization series obsolete?
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Overthinking Video Games
How Agile Development Has Transformed Strategy in Civilization VI
Agile product development is nothing new. But has it fundamentally altered the difficulty of games like Civilization?
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The 2016 Overthinking It Holiday Gift Guide
Our gift guide for 2016, with great holiday gift recommendations from your friends at Overthinking It and a chance to support the site you love.
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Pop Culture We’re Thankful For In 2016
We may be living in the darkest of timelines, but it wasn’t ALL bad this year.
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What Type of Gamer am I?
Gamer Culture as a social and economic category is defined in some stiflingly narrow ways. This is a problem. Here’s why.
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Pokemon Go Explains the 2016 Election
Who will take over the White House gym?
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Civ25: The Changing Stakes of Civilization
What does the evolution of the Civilization franchise over the past 25 years tell us about how world politics have changed during that time?
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Press A to Continue: Video Games and Challenging Art
Is playing a video game that keeps killing you similar to the experience of continuously trying to read James Joyce?
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Is Pokémon Go a Malevolent, Superintelligent Artificial Consciousness from the Future?
My sources say yes.
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Existentialism at the End of the World
Fallout Shelter, Walking Dead, and the failed absurdism of postapocalyptic fiction
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