Max has loved video games ever since he booted up his friend's N64 and played Mario Kart. He quickly spent all his allowance on any game he could get his hands on, and spent hours playing a dusty PS2.

The founding team at Oxide Games is heavily composed of leadership that worked on Civilization 5, so it should come as little surprise that the crew pursued a new take on 4X as one of its latest ...

Ashely Claudino is an Evergreen Staff Writer from Portugal. She has a Translation degree from the University of Lisbon (2020, Faculty of Arts and Humanities). She has been writing for Game Rant since ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Strategy fans received a new in-depth look at Ara: History Untold, an upcoming 4X turn-based strategy game from developer Oxide Games that is ...

Sid Meier’s Civilization VII impressed with its gameplay debut at Gamescom Opening Night Live, but it’s not out until next February. Thankfully, Oxide Studios and Xbox Game Studios Publishing have an ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Grand strategy games are a bit too big to demo. Building from a single settlement and a couple of farms into a vast nation is a time-consuming process ...

4X games can be daunting, and the genre's high barrier for entry is normally enough to deter many from even getting started. Ara: History Untold doesn't subscribe to that notion, despite its ...

While the Civilization series is still the leader among history-based 4X strategy games, Ara: History Untold capably stamped its footprint in that space in late 2024. A cooperative effort from Xbox ...

Untold Scenarios includes several different situations to choose from, which place you right in the center of critical moments in human history, as well as some hypothetical "what-if" scenarios that ...

Last year, Ara: History Untold came out, providing a new entry to the historical strategy genre. In the time since, similar projects have also launched, Civilization 7 most noteworthy among them, and ...

The mechanical crown jewel of Ara: History Untold is its deep “crafting system” – in essence, a city-builder-style production system that allows you to take basic resources and refine them into ...

During today's Xbox Developer Direct, we got a second look at the publisher's upcoming tap into the grand strategy genre, Ara: History Untold. And we now know it's coming out in Fall 2024. During the ...