Our sister web site Game Daily has just posted up the latest in their series of Q&As with major game industry figures with questions submitted by readers. This time the interviewee is Sid Meier, the head of 2K Games's Firaxis studio and of course the creator of the long running Civilization series of turn based strategy games (which just got a new edition announced for the PC). One of the reader questions asked about the possibility of a MMO style Civ game and Meier admits it's " . . . definitely an interesting idea and could take the game in exciting new directions."

That's not all he is apparently thinking about, however. Meier adds, "Beyond that I have some new ideas that are quite different from games I've made in the past – and that's all I'm able to tell you right now." Meier talks about a number of subjects in the chat, including whether there will be a new Pirates! game (none are planned at the moment) or whether Firaxis will go back to the classic sci-fi strategy game Alpha Centauri (Meier would like to do it but the game's rights are currently owned by Electronic Arts).