PolyCast 441: A Guest

By | March 5, 2026
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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 #441, which is from September 2024. The thread for this episode is here.

The four-hundred-and-forty-first episode of PolyCast, “A Guest“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”, with guest co-host “Imran_Siddiqui”. Topics for this episode include:

News

– 00h02m33s | Challenge of the Month: Know Your Enemy
– 00h07m24s | September 12 Developer Livestream
– 00h26m13s | Civ VII Dev. Diary 1: Ages
– 01h02m02s | Hatshepsut First Look
– 01h06m41s | Augustus First Look

Play the new Civ7 “Game Of The Month” #18

By | March 4, 2026
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We got again a new game for everyone who is eager to compete in Civ7: The 18th “Game Of The Month”! The savegame comes this time with the following setup: You play as Sayyida Al Hurra of Persia on a standard size “Continents & Islands” map on Sovereign level. You also get some light disaster and some of the crisis with it. As winning condition you must win this game with a culture victory, playing as the Ottomans, and you must do this before April 1. Are you up to this challenge? Then get your starting savegame here.

Civilization VII Update 1.3.2 – Patch 1

By | March 3, 2026
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Firaxis has released a new minor patch for Civ7. The changes include a fix for missed crisis notifications, fixes a bug while unlocking policies, a range of stability improvements and a menu bug on consoles. For more information check our thread here.

Old World – Empires of the Indus DLC announced

By | March 2, 2026
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Mohawk Games has announced today the next DLC for Old World: The Empires Of The Indus DLC. The new DLC obviously brings 3 new civilizations from the Indus valley (the Maurya, the Yuezhi and the Tamilakam), as well as the Huns, new wonders, religion, a new terrain type (jungle), new events and more. The DLC is supposed to come on March 30.

You can find all the information on the Steam page here. If you are excited about the new DLC and want to discuss with us, the join us in this thread.

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #284

By | March 1, 2026
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We got you the new GOTM for March! If you want a new challenge, then you can tackle the following: We want you to play as Harun al-Rashid of Arabia on a standard size Fractal map on King difficulty. You must win this game via a culture victory, and prevent all other civs from winning another victory. If this sounds interesting for you, then check this thread for the details and the starting savegame!

Anno 117: Pax Romana – Free to play this weekend!

By | February 25, 2026
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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.

New Civ7 merchandise: Civilization coffee

By | February 24, 2026
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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:

Come join us here for the discussion.

PolyCast 426: Abundance

By | February 23, 2026
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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