Firaxis Games

What Firaxis Games is

Firaxis Games is a strategy game studio whose about page states that it was founded in 1996 by Sid Meier. The same page says the studio joined the Take-Two Interactive family in 2006 and that it operates from two official offices, in Sparks, Maryland and Cary, North Carolina, with Heather Hazen named as studio head. The page presents the studio as a strategy specialist and lists its game sites for players. The page also links out to the group's game sites, so Firaxis's own website functions mainly as a studio page rather than a storefront.

Firaxis works as a first-party studio inside Take-Two Interactive rather than as an independent company, and it describes its mission as building strategy games. The about page includes a history timeline that begins in 1982, when Sid Meier co-founded MicroProse, and it lays out the studio's stated values along with links to its community-facing game pages, which are published under the group's domain rather than the studio's own.

Sid Meier's Civilization VI

Sid Meier's Civilization VI is the game listed for Firaxis Games in our database, and the studio is credited as its developer. The Steam store entry names Firaxis Games as a developer alongside Aspyr for the macOS and Linux versions, lists 2K as publisher, and gives a release date of October 20, 2016. Publishing therefore sits with 2K, not with Firaxis, and the game is classified under the strategy genre. The same Steam entry lists 2K as publisher and records Windows, macOS and Linux as supported platforms for the game.

The official site for the Civilization series is published under the 2K domain and covers the series' titles, including a dedicated page for Civilization VI, which describes the game as one where players expand an empire, advance a culture and compete against historical leaders. Firaxis's own site links out to those game pages rather than hosting them, which is consistent with the studio's role as a developer inside a larger publishing group.

Reporting and public information

Firaxis publishes studio updates through its own site, including developer updates about current work, and it uses the site to describe the team, its values and its history. Public information about its games is otherwise handled at group level by 2K and Take-Two, whose pages carry the game sites and store information for the titles the studio develops. Its game sites, by contrast, are hosted under the publisher's domain and carry the store links and product information for the titles the studio develops.

The official pages reviewed here do not state an employee count, revenue or unit-sales figures for Firaxis Games, and no sales numbers for its games appear on them, so those figures are not given in this profile. The documented facts are the studio's founding year, its founder, its ownership by Take-Two Interactive since 2006, its two office locations, its studio head and its credited work on Sid Meier's Civilization VI.

The about page also states that the studio's history includes multiple BAFTA and D.I.C.E. Awards, described as a legacy of more than three decades of design work, and it lists the studio's values and team alongside links to its game sites. Those statements are published by Firaxis itself, and they are the studio's own account of its design record rather than a third-party summary.

Games

• CivCity: Rome
• Civilization Eras and Allies
• Civilization III: Conquests
• Civilization III: Play the World
• Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
• Civilization IV: Colonization
• Civilization IV: Warlords
• Civilization Revolution
• Civilization Revolution 2
• Civilization V: Brave New World
• Civilization V: Gods & Kings
• Civilization VI
• Civilization VI: Gathering Storm
• Civilization VI: Rise and Fall
• Civilization VII
• Civilization World
• Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide
• CivilizationEDU
• Haunted Hollow
• Midnight Suns
• Sid Meier's Ace Patrol
• Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• Sid Meier's Antietam!
• Sid Meier's Civilization VI
• Sid Meier's Pirates!
• Sid Meier's Railroads!
• Sid Meier's SimGolf
• Sid Meier's Starships
• Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies
• XCOM 2
• XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
• XCOM: Chimera Squad
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown: Plus

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