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SEASON 2 (2008-) | SEASON 1 (2006-2007)  
Focus: "Civilization: Revolution" with Jason 'Jason2K' Bergman
- 01m32s | General
  Pre-and-post-release responsibilities as Lead Producer on Civilization: Revolution, being the publisher internal producer on titles from Firaxis Games, CivRev playtesting, the introduction to the Civ series and now having worked on a title in it.
- 07m30s | Platforms
  The lack of a Civilopedia for and barebones manual on the DS version, other console port options and future PlayStation 3 platform support.
- 15m18s | Gameplay
  Favourite civilization to play as, responding to criticism of aggressive CivRev Artificial Intelligence (AI), the 2100AD game end limit and explaining the Histograph symbols.
- 21m13s | Content
  Possibilities for an Earth and larger seed maps, chances for custom single-player games, the CivRev scenarios and multiple aspects of Downloadable Content (DLC).
- 27m11s | Reflection
  Most and least satisfying aspects of CivRev, increasing interest in the PC Civ line-up and lessons learned from CivRev's development.
- 35m08s | GameSpy
  How and why the multiplayer service for the PlayStation 3 version was chosen.
- 35m47s | Miscellaneous
  Most memorable CivRev games to date, starting in the gaming career and his own venture, lurking on Civ fansite and official forums and feedback on the CivGameoftheWeek.com effort.
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Runtime: 50m:09s | Filesize: 24.0MB
Release Date: July 30th, 2008
Hosts: DanQ, Cartimandua | Interviewee: Jason2K



Episode 49: Jump Right Into This
- 06m26s | News
  Information and screenshots on Civilization IV: Colonization from this year's E3 gathering, and is the game morally "offensive".
- 18m34s | Research Lab
  A listener suggested topic: playing Civilization on a hex instead of a square grid.
- 23m46s | Forum Talk
  Why Civilization IV's governors are so bad and no Trophy support for Civilization: Revolution gamers on the PlayStation 3.
- 32m23s | Senate
  Placing your Forbidden Palace National Wonder or not at all.


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Runtime: 44m:59s | Filesize: 21.5MB
Release Date: July 26th, 2008
Hosts: DanQ, Makahula, Cartimandua, AAHZ, Kael



Yak "Civilization: Revolution"
- 01m26s | Akash
  A search engine visit led Akash to the site and the contest, though now seems to think he'll be famous.
- 12m03s | "Cybexx"
  A new visitor to the site and listener to this podcast, Galen "Cybexx" Ryder found the contest to his liking.
- 14m43s | "Fadingbeano"
  The fiancee of Craig "Fadingbeano" apparently tries to make fun of him in taking this call.
- 21m24s | "joebreeves"
  The Civilization enthusiast that is Joe "joebreeves" Reeves is also a fan of this podcast.
- 28m45s | "jsilvrs"
  Participating in the contest made Steven "jsilvrs" Silvers' visits to the site all the more enjoyable.
- 33m38s | "UnOrthOdOx"
  He got anonymity, but didn't want it: "UnOrthOdOx" accepts a challenge in the process.
- 39m56s | [Anonymous]
  This winner of no fixed identity has experience with the Civ series before on the console as well as the PC.


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Runtime: 46m:34s | Filesize: 22.3MB
Release Date: July 23rd, 2008
Host: DanQ | Interviewees: Akash, Cybexx, Fadingbeano, joebreeves, jsilvers, UnOrthOdOx, [Anonymous]




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The shiny second season continues. Daniel "DanQ" Quick, Makahlua and Imran Siddiqui return with Annalee "Cartimandua" Barney as the fourth regular co-host. Civilization strategy is the focus in practice and design with modding coverage now the domain of sibling show ModCast; most other first-season segments have been carried over with some renaming. Episodes continue to be edited by Quick but are now 40-45 minutes apiece.    < Sample Clips (04m59s | 2.4MB | Discuss/Stream/Dial-Up) >

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