Are you all enjoying strategically (and not so strategically) taking over the world in Sid Meier’s Civilization V? Have you managed to conquer all of the empires and emerge as the one, true ‘Civilization’? * trumpets *

Well, that’s just grand, because 2K Games has revealed that Civ V players will soon be able to let two more empires into their virtual world with the release of two downloadable content packs next week.

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At the beginning of the month Firaxis announced that a demo for the studio’s highly anticipated strategy game, Civilization 5, would be arriving before the full release of the title.

Now, though, due to the amount of work necessary to finish up the game (y’know, the work Firaxis is meant to be doing), the demo will only be available on the same day as the title’s release in North America.

From a blog post on the official Civilization 5 site:

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The team at Firaxis has announced that a demo for Sid Meier’s Civilization V will become available later this year, ahead of the release of the full game in September.

This will give the legions of Civilization franchise fans an early sneak peek at the studio’s upcoming strategy game, as well as give unconvinced members of the gaming public an opportunity to see what all the fuss is about.

From a post on the official Civilization V website:

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This September, the state of Maryland, USA will officially recognise the achievements of videogame development studio Firaxis, and studio head Sid Meier, and has proclaimed September 21st 2010 “Sid Meier’s Civilization V Day” – the day that the PC strategy game is released in the US.

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Developer of the acclaimed Civilization series of strategy games, Firaxis Games, has been affected by a round of staff layoffs, as 20 members of the 130-strong team leave the studio.

Firaxis owner Take-Two said that the cuts were made to “maximise the overall performance of the studio,” and assured fans that work on neither the upcoming Civilisation V, nor the in-development Civilisation Facebook game, would be affected by the layoffs:

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The fifth full entry to the classic, long-running Civilization series of strategy games has received an official release date, and PC gamers will be able to get their hands on Sid Meier’s Civilization V on September 21st in the US, and September 24th in the UK and Europe.

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