In case you might want to play something which is not Civ (although we doubt), you get an easy chance this weekend: The ancient city builder Anno 117: Pax Romana will be free to play from Thurday February 26 or Friday February 27 (depending on time zone) until Monday March 2. You can play the game for free on PC, XBox and PS5. For more information check here, and join us for the discussion here.
Today Firaxis has announced on Twitter that the geek coffee shop Madrinas has now Civilization coffee to offer (click here).
Madrinas has a range of other themed gaming merchandise (if you e.g. want a Mafia coffee mug), and given that you definitely need some strong coffee for one-more-turn until the next morning, this might make some sense.
The coffee is cinnamon and whiskey flavoured, and will cost you $18.99 for the whole beans (it doesn’t say how many grams this is though).
So… get some coffee, because, as we know:
The Polycast team is releasing some of their old episodes, which were not previously published due to circumstances with the editing. You can now download the PolyCast #425, which is from December 2023. The thread for this episode is here.
News
– 00h01m17s | PolyCast News
– 00h04m45s | Millennia Announced, Wargamer Article
– 00h11m41s | Ara: History Untold Trailer
– 00h17m49s | New Civilization Mobile Game
Forum Talk
– 00h24m00s | Unwritten Rules for Civilization VI
– 00h32m23s | Challenge of the Month: Age of Abundance
– 00h37m34s | Which is Better? Civ5 or Civ6
Theatre
– 00h47m26s | What Have We Been Playing in the Strategy World
Our user ninjaboy42099 is a big fan of the old Civilization: Call To Power, and has decided to set up a website with all the mods for it. He has only uploaded some yet, but he is busy searching the net for more mods to add to it. The available downloads are from both CtP1 and 2, and include the big mod collection from Apolyton. Interested? Check the archive here, and discuss with us here.
Our user hibiird has been playing around with the programming language Scratch, and has programmed an online version which adheres rather closely to Civ2. He has released the first version of it, which is not yet perfect, but is playable with all features, like building cities, improving tiles, resarching technologies and fighting wars. If you want to have a look, then check it out here, and come to this thread to give feedback.
Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game! There are a lot of changes this time, but many under the hood. This cludes improvements on the rendering backend which results in a better performance, although that leads to some minor errors. On the gameplay side, UU tech bonus card are now unlocked by culture and not tech, as well as re-balancing and bug fixes.
Discuss this update with us here (and read the full list of changes too).
Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG, Steam, and on Stove.
The devs have posted the patch notes for the ongoing testing (the workshop), which give us some interesting insights what is to come for Civ7. This includes on details how while playing a continuous civs you get boni outside the civs age, how tall vs. wide empires will be tweaked and how the victory system is getting reworked. Interested in the details? Read them here!
The Polycast team is releasing some of their old episodes, which were not previously published due to circumstances with the editing. You can now download the PolyCast #425, which is from August 2023. The thread for this episode is here.
The four-hundred-and-twenty-fifth episode of PolyCast, “Era Studies and Rants“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:
Forum Talk
– 00h01m45s | Why is War Weariness So Weak?
– 00h24m01s | First Things to Do in the Ancient Era According to GameRant
– 00h31m14s | First Things to Do in the Industrial Era According to GameRant
– 00h51m25s | Information Era Tips According to GameRant
Research Lab
– 00h59m20s | Civ 7 Ideas from Previous Civ Games