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April 17, 2013 10:55 pm GMT

'Civilization' Creators Take on Their First Mobile Game

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When you think of turn-based strategy, it's hard to not think of heavyweight developer FiraxisCivilization has become a staple of the genre, allowing players to conquer the globe starting with the dawn of man, and the reboot of XCOM has been a critical and commercial success.

Now the company is turning its eyes to mobile with its first free-to-play title, Haunted Hollow. This unique title puts you in charge of a haunted house, and your goal is to terrorize the neighboring town with your growing menagerie of iconic monsters.

"We had an idea, long ago, for a cute little game about running a monster hotel, where players could collect all the great monsters everyone remembers and take care of them in one big, ridiculous house. This idea came back when we were contemplating a mobile game, but this time it was a duel between two haunted houses. It was a short step from there to the feuding haunted house idea with a terrified, tiny town stuck between them," said Firaxis developers David McDonough and Will Miller, the game's co-creators, in an email interview. Read more...

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