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In the interests of making things easy to find, if you have an article or news about CivBE, please link to it in this thread. So far there is:

Announcement articles with general information:

Announcement articles with interviews:
  • Game Informer - Civilization: Beyond Earth Announced - Here's Everything You Want To Know
  • IGN - Firaxis Revisits Alpha Centauri With Civilization: Beyond Earth
  • Joystiq - Civilization: Beyond Earth breaks free from history, heads to the final frontier
  • The Escapist - Civilization: Beyond Earth Could Be Alpha Centauri 2 Without the Name
  • Kotaku - We're Getting A Sci-Fi Civilization, And It Sounds Fantastic
  • Jeuxvideo (translation from French) - Beyond Earth : le nouveau Civilization de Firaxis se dévoile
  • Polygon (includes video with developer interviews) - See Firaxis' vision for the future in Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
  • PCGamer - Civilization: Beyond Earth interview - everything you need to know about the new factions, aliens, technology and more
  • Games.on - Civilization: Beyond Earth – We chat to Firaxis about looking back to the future
  • TIME - Interview: Sid Meier’s Civilization Beyond Earth Might Be the Alpha Centauri Sequel You’ve Been Waiting For
  • TIME - Beyond Earth Interview: ‘No Civilization Game Would Be Made Without Sid. He’s the Guy.’
  • GameCrate - Civilization: Beyond Earth Designers Discuss Inspirations, Aliens, and more
  • Destructoid - Possible crossover with XCOM, inspiration sources, and more

GameSpot 'The Next Big Game' articles:

More April articles/sources:
  • Arstechnica - Interview: Civilization: Beyond Earth’s designer takes humanity’s story to space
  • Sid Meier's Civilization youtube channel - Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Firaxis Developer Interview at PAX East
  • Programmable Web - 2K Announces Game that will Utilize New AMD Mantle Graphics API
  • GameSpot - Reality Check - Civilization: Beyond Earth - Could We Colonize Other Planets?
  • Civforum.de - Entwickler-Interview: Civilization Beyond Earth (Interview with Lena Brenk in German)

May articles/sources:
  • VentureBeat - Humanity takes to the stars in Civilization: Beyond Earth (interview)
  • 2K Blog - Creating the Lore of Civilization: Beyond Earth
  • 2K Blog - Affinities Explained in Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
  • PC Gamer (UK) - Exploring Firaxis' Spiritual Successor to Alpha Centauri: First Contact (magazine article as advertised here)
  • 2K Blog - Your Civilization: Beyond Earth Questions Answered by David McDonough and Will Miller (CivFanatics Q&A)
  • 2K Blog - The Affinities of Civilization: Beyond Earth - Purity
  • Polygon - Civilization: Beyond Earth takes grand strategy to the stars
  • GameCrate - Civilization: Beyond Earth Hands-On with New Details Galore!
  • Ars Technica - Civilization: Beyond Earth is a sim with a slight alien twist
  • Kotaku - My First 40 Turns With Civilization: Beyond Earth
  • VideoGamer.com - Civilization: Beyond Earth - 6 big changes you need to know about
  • VideoGamer.com - Everything we know (video)
  • Gameswelt - Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Preview (in German)
  • Eurogamer - How Firaxis is building its Civilization: Beyond Earth
  • GameSpot - How Civilization: Beyond Earth Is Improving Proxy Warfare
  • VentureBeat - Beware the city-devouring worms in Civilization: Beyond Earth (hands-on preview)
  • The Escapist - Civilization: Beyond Earth Preview - Sci-Fi Skinned Strategy (video)
  • Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Firaxis On How Civ: Beyond Earth Really Isn’t Alpha Centauri
  • PCGames - Civilization: Beyond Earth angespielt: Neuer Planet, altes Strategie-Wohlgefühl (in German)
  • Gamereactor - Civilization: Beyond Earth
  • Shacknews - Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth preview: boldly going
  • Nerdist - Civilization: Beyond Earth is a Stellar 4x Strategy Experience
  • Igromania - В разработке > Civilization: Beyond Earth (in Russian) (Google translate)
  • Ausgamers - To Affinity and Beyond - Hands-On with Civilization: Beyond Earth
  • Destructoid - I killed a worm and I liked it

June articles/sources (incl. E3):
  • The Jenome - The Role of Genetics in Civilization: Beyond Earth – Interview with Co-Lead Designers
  • Gametrailers - First-Look Gameplay Interview (video)
  • Gamereactor - Civilization: Beyond Earth info overload
  • 2K Blog - Civilization: Beyond Earth Leader Interview: Suzanne Fielding
  • Polygon - Civilization: Beyond Earth takes grand strategy to the stars
  • The Escapist - Civilization: Beyond Earth Hands-On: Sci-Fi Skinned Strategy - Update
  • GameSpot - Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth Stage Demo - E3 2014 (youtube video)
  • IGN - Civilization Beyond Earth Gameplay Demo - IGN Live: E3 2014 (youtube video)
  • Polygon - Civilization: Beyond Earth gameplay video and interview - E3 2014 (youtube video)
  • Golem.de - "Sid sagt, das Terrain ist der Star" (in German)
  • New Game Network - Civilization: Beyond Earth Preview - E3 2014
  • Tweakers - Civilization: Beyond Earth Preview - Sid Meier gaat de ruimte in (in Dutch)
  • Joystiq - Civilization: Beyond Earth not just the new Alpha Centauri
  • Mercury News - E3 2014: Sid Meier’s Civilizaton: Beyond Earth surprisingly familiar
  • BioGamer Girl - Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth (E3 2014 Hands-On Preview)
  • GameZone - E3 2014: Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth Preview: A whole new world
  • Gameranx - Civilization: Beyond Earth E3 2014 Preview
  • PC Gamer Magazine - Civilization: Beyond Earth E3 interview: diplomacy, quests, and putting the pieces together
  • GameNGuide - 'Civilization Beyond Earth' E3: 2014 Features Such As Alien World, Energy Currency & Outposts Discussed
  • Neoseeker - Civilization: Beyond Earth E3 2014 Impressions: 15 minutes is not nearly enough
  • Lazygamer - E3 2014 – Civilization Beyond Earth preview
  • HardcoreGamer - Civilization: Beyond Earth is out of this world
  • International Digital Times - Civilization: Beyond Earth Release Date, Gameplay, Next-Gen Possibilities And Everything Else We Learned At E3
  • Tom's Guide - Civilization: Beyond Earth Explores Strange New Worlds
  • LoadTheGame - Civilization Beyond Earth Gameplay and New Screenshots
  • Games.on.net - Civilization: Beyond Earth designers talk about transcedence and The Web
  • TechnoBuffalo - Civilization: Beyond Earth Eyes-On Preview
  • AngryJoeShow - Civilization: Beyond Earth - Angry Interview E3 2014 (youtube video)
  • GameFront - Civilization: Beyond Earth Preview: Civ V Goes to Space
  • Gamersglobal - Mix aus Civ 5 & Alpha Centauri: Civilization Beyond Earth (in German)
  • PC Powerplay - Preview: Sid Meier's Beyond Civilization
  • Gameplanet - E3: Civilization: Beyond Earth first impressions
  • 2K Blog - Civilization: Beyond Earth - The Story Behind PAC Leader Daoming Sochua
  • Mashable - 'Civilization: Beyond Earth’ Hands On: Building the Society of the Future
  • 2K Blog - Civilization: Beyond Earth - Letter From Samatar Jama Barre

July articles/source:
 
Wired

The developers gave the example of something they call the siege worm, huge roving monsters plucked out of Dune. At the beginning of the game, they are completely indifferent to your species. You’re just another bug to them, but the catch is that their indifference can cause them to trample your cities or farms. If a siege worm is coming, you face a tough choice: Deal with the potential damage and stay on its good side, or attack it and risk the wrath of all wormkind.

It’s important to note that these alien species don’t much care about your national boundaries, either. To them, a human is a human. So if a neighboring faction is slaying siege worms, you’re going to catch the worms’ ire as well. Worse, the more you interact with these species the more they adapt their strategy and strength. All of this adds an additional wrinkle of complexity to interstate diplomacy. If your strategy depends on playing nice with the locals, you’ll need to find some way to make your neighbors exercise restraint.
 
It's not exactly an official source of info, but the guy who runs this portal is a really trustworthy person:
http://well-of-souls.com/civ/civbe_overview.html

The portal gathers information about upcoming Civ titles and serves them in a very neat fashion. It's updated pretty much right after vital info is provided by official sources.

Arioch, big thanks to You!
 
@civilization on Twitter linked a 2K YouTube video which is new. I can't link right now because I'm on a mobile device. However, it elaborates just a bit on the Great Mistake. Apparently there is a conflict which destabilizes the world powers and the planet falls into a dark age. When humanity emerges, old borders and cultures are reconfigured.
 
@civilization on Twitter linked a 2K YouTube video which is new. I can't link right now because I'm on a mobile device. However, it elaborates just a bit on the Great Mistake. Apparently there is a conflict which destabilizes the world powers and the planet falls into a dark age. When humanity emerges, old borders and cultures are reconfigured.

Yeah yeah, but more importantly, the interviewers are alright. ;)


Link to video.
 
PC Gamer mag will have an article on CivBE in their next issue. A nice spread of tile improvements is even on the cover.

The cover was revealed today on Twitter.
 
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