{"id":238889,"date":"2026-01-15T06:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238889\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:14:21","slug":"civilization-vii-comes-to-apple-arcade-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238889\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilization VII comes to Apple Arcade in February"},"content":{"rendered":"

The App Store is a home for many kinds of apps (including, inexplicably<\/a>, one that lets users undress strangers without their consent<\/a>). But hey, it also has games! And soon the store’s Apple Arcade service will include one more: the not-so-highly rated Civilization VII.<\/p>\n

Apple announced<\/a> on Wednesday that Sid Meier’s Civilization VII will arrive almost exactly a year after launch<\/a>. The game is already available for Apple devices, but its arrival on Apple Arcade will be a first.<\/p>\n

\"Still<\/p>\n

Civilization VII arrives on Apple Arcade on February 5. (Firaxis Games \/ Apple)<\/p>\n

\u201cFree (for Apple Arcade subscribers)\u201d may be the right pricing for the game, given its mixed reviews. A common complaint is the way it handles transitions between eras. (“I have Ben Franklin leading the Romans that turned into Ben Franklin leading Spain… like what? Who asked for this?” a Steam reviewer wrote.) On the other hand, its visuals are praised by most.<\/p>\n

The Apple Arcade edition of Civilization VII is scheduled to arrive on February 5. It will be playable on Mac, iPhone and iPad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The App Store is a home for many kinds of apps (including, inexplicably, one that lets users undress…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[84014,128913,85,46,128912,125],"class_list":["post-238889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple-arcade","tag-ben-franklin","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sid-meier39s-civilization","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}