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Firaxis Games Firaxis Games, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Sparks, Maryland. The company was founded in May 1996 by Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds (game designer), Brian Reynolds following their departure from MicroProse, Meier ...
is an American
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based in
Sparks, Maryland Sparks is an unincorporated community that is located in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is situated approximately north of Baltimore and is considered to be a suburb of the City of Baltimore. The Gunpowder River runs through Spark ...
. It was founded in May 1996 by
Sid Meier Sidney K. Meier ( ; born February 24, 1954) is a Canadian-American programmer, designer, and producer of several strategy video games and simulation video games, including the ''Civilization'' series. Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 with B ...
,
Jeff Briggs Jeffery L. Briggs (born March 10, 1957) is the American founder and former President and CEO of Firaxis Games, a video game developer based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States. He was previously a game designer at MicroProse but left that com ...
and Brian Reynolds as Firaxis Software, following their departure from
MicroProse MicroProse is an American video game publisher and video game developer, developer founded by Bill Stealey, Sid Meier, and Andy Hollis in 1982. It developed and published numerous games, including starting the ''Civilization (series), Civilizatio ...
, which Meier had co-founded. The company was renamed to Firaxis Games in July 1997 prior to releasing any titles. It produced seven games primarily for
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s over the next nine years through multiple publishers; these games include
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such as their first title, ''
Sid Meier's Gettysburg! ''Sid Meier's Gettysburg!'' is a 1997 real-time strategy, real-time Wargame (video games), wargame developed by Firaxis Games and published by Electronic Arts. It was designed by Sid Meier, and followed by ''Sid Meier's Antietam!'' in 1999. Gamep ...
'' (1997), and 4X turn-based strategy games, all with the prefix "Sid Meier's" in their official titles. Three of the games were part of the company's
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''
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'' series of 4X games, which was originally begun by Meier at MicroProse. In November 2004,
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purchased the publishing rights to the series from then-rights holder
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, and a year later in November 2005, after the release of ''
Civilization IV ''Civilization IV'' (also known as ''Sid Meier's Civilization IV'') is a 4X turn-based strategy computer game and the fourth installment of the ''Civilization'' series, and designed by Soren Johnson under the direction of Sid Meier and his vid ...
'', acquired Firaxis. It became part of the publisher's
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label, and has published exclusively through them since. Since 2005, Firaxis has released nine further titles related to the ''Civilization'' series, primarily 4X games. The other six releases include two titles in the '' X-COM'' series of
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games, a railroad
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, two mobile tactics games, and a mobile
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game. Meier is the only founder remaining at the company, where he is the
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. Firaxis' most recent title is '' XCOM: Chimera Squad'' (2020). Firaxis Games has worked on 23 games since 1996, 12 of which are part of the ''Civilization'' series.


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Firaxis Games Firaxis Games, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Sparks, Maryland. The company was founded in May 1996 by Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds (game designer), Brian Reynolds following their departure from MicroProse, Meier ...