Civilization Facebook beta for June

By Robert Purchese Published 2 February, 2010

Free-to-play empire-builder to seek testers.

The Facebook version of Sid Meier's Civlization will not begin beta testing until June.

Meier and gang will start canvassing for testers soon, according to Variety.

Announced in October, Civilization Network will use Facebook to get friends working together or competing with each other as they attempt to build the best settlement around. It's ambitious and has ludicrously-lucrative potential should the photo-swappers bite.

The aim, at least until the game builds momentum, is to be free-to-play.

Keep an eye on the Civilization Network Facebook page to stand a chance at becoming one of those beta testers.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • mcmonkeyplc #1 2 years ago

    Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo Interesting! Finally something fun to use facebook for.

  • dsmx #2 2 years ago

    This game could be responsible for the collapse of all work in the workplace.

  • Khanivor #3 2 years ago

    This could be mental. Gimme

  • Emth #4 2 years ago

    Call me shallow, but I like to keep my Civilization playing and my facebook friends separate...

  • Murton #5 2 years ago

    I'm doubtful whether or not this will satisfy proper Civ fans as I'm certain it will need dumbing down considerably in order to work on the Facebook platform but if it succeeds in turning a few people on to the franchise then job well done in my opinion.

    Still hoping for another proper Civ game, Revolutions was good at what it did but lacked what made Civ special in my opinion.

  • mingster #6 2 years ago

    This could be massive.
    Considering how many people play Farmville (which is pants!)

  • CosmicGypsy #7 2 years ago

    This just sounds like a cheap rip-off of the awesome and innovative Evony. I bet this doesn't even have any boobs. Meh.

  • Ged42 #8 2 years ago

    I can see the statuses now

    "Bob Smith was nuked by Ghandi"

  • Invisible_Cow #9 2 years ago

    "This game could be responsible for the collapse of all work in the workplace. "
    This. The only thing which stopped me playing Civ 4 and Civ Rev for a day a time was lack of willing teammates\opposition. If I can have ten turn-based games on the go at the same time, I can die happy.
    I agree that it needs to be a good implementation though. Slightly worried they'll dumb it down for the Fishville crowd.

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #10 2 years ago

    Evony doesn't have any boobs either, it's just its adverts that do.

  • Genji #11 2 years ago

    Jesus. As if people these days didn't spend enough time on Facebook already.

  • oerhoert #12 2 years ago

    <em>"I can see the statuses now

    "Bob Smith was nuked by Ghandi""</em>

    +1 to you, good sir, for the laughs.

  • Plaz #13 2 years ago

    'Just wish they'd concentrate more time and effort into making Civ5.

    Facebook, my arse! '

    You're assuming that the same team that are working on Civ 5 are doing this too. I would say that's unlikely.

  • superdelphinus #14 2 years ago

    "your light infantry unit will be complete in 36 hours"

  • Bitkari #15 2 years ago

    I love playing Civ multiplayer -- but it's so hard to organize a match, and rarely do even quick matches last the duration.

    This could be the best multiplayer Civ yet - and better still, it might get people who would normally never *think* of playing a relatively hardcore PC strategy game in to the genre.