Civilization Online is a game that has just been revealed, but there's no time better to be disappointed than now.

Or, as 2K Games PR Manager Brian Roundy told PC Gamer: "Civilization Online is developed by South Korea-based XL Games in partnership with 2K, and will be available first in Korea. No release date has been set. There are no plans for a North American release at this time."

So the spin-off that wouldn't feature turns, hexes, happy populations and unstackable armies, and where you would be demoted from a civilizations SuperGod to a cog in the machine of the nation, is only accessible to people who like Zergs a little too much.

Might be that it means that Civilization Online is just another Asian mmo, so missing out on it is not that bad. We might never know - unless we learned Korean while reading manga and moved there with a StarCraft scholarship.