Elemental: War of Magic

Here's a PC game I'm really looking forward to. Billed as an unofficial sequel to Master of Magic, a game from the early 90s that I loved despite the idiotic AI that sucked away most of the challenge. It's a 4x game where you develop your cities and troops, ala any of the Civ games, but where you develop your mage's magical abilities instead of tech. Actually, judging by the screen shot below, it looks like you have both tech and spells to develop. At it's best, it's a combination of Civ and Populous. If the races and spells are even half as cool a MoM I'll be playing this for a long time. I played the GalCiv2 beta and really enjoyed it, as well as getting to make suggestions that were actually folded into the shipping game.  Should be out in September of this year, assuming the beta testing goes well.

EDIT: Added screen shot and remark.  Updated release date.