We have already heard a lot about Firaxis has worked with the Shawnee, and we’ve also gotten interesting insights from Firaxis chief historian, but now PCGamer has published an interesting article about another new addition in Civ7: Sayyida al-Hurra. In the article PCGamer writes about how Firaxis stumbled upon her by accident due to academic research by a professor, and how he as recruited for further consultancy. The legacy of Sayyida al-Hurra is impressive, but not well known, and the article also writes about how she came to power, was beloved by the people, and how her reign came to an end. You can read the article here, and discuss it with us here.

Today we got the next Civ7 patch, 1.3.2. It seems our last announcement was wrong though, as the very big changes will only be coming in the future. In this patch you get nested tooltips, a new appeal lense, together with a range of minor fixes for the AI and UI, as well as civ re-balancing.

Also interesting is that you got your free Gilgamesh! He is diplomatic and militaristic, but his special ability gives him access to all endeavours.

You can read the patch notes here, discuss them with us here, or discuss the new Gilga here.

The announcement is from earlier this month, but it seems we missed it: New Civ7 merchandise is available.
All the official merchandise can be bought in the official store here.
As you can see from the picture, the new items are a tumbler, a baseball cap, a mousepad, a set of pins (mystery selection), a sherpa blanket, and a new t-shirt as well as sweatshirt (different ones were available already prior).
From tomorrow you can also order a war elephant plushie, see here.

Want to discuss the new merchandise? Join us here for the discussion.