The three hundred-and-ninety-second episode of PolyCast, “The Good Old Days“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h02m00s | Firaxis’s 30 Year Anniversary Video– 00h03m38s | The New Yorker Review of Sid Meier’s Memoirs! Forum Talk– 00h11m01s | Unpopular… Read More »
The next Civ6 “Game Of The Month” is now available! In this competition you can play each month the same savegame and compare yourself against all the other dedicated civ-players here. Will you be the best? Only one way to find out! This time you play as Gilgamesh on Immortal difficulty on a standard size map. You have… Read More »
The above video was recently published, mentioend on Twitter, and we think it is very relevant to the Civ-fanatics audience. While it’s a bit early in the year for such a preview, it is certainly worth a watch (despite the annoying issues with the voice-over) if you have time to play anything else besides Civ, Old World and… Read More »
Our moderator bite, also known as Brian MacNamara or TL;DR Reviews, has updated his ultimate civilization map: The final map now contains really all known features of Civilization 6, nations, natural wonders, world wonders, everything. The latest update now includes everything from the Khmer and Portugese. If you want to read everything about the latest map, or want… Read More »
Amplitude has given a status update on the October patch for Humankind. They expect the release of the next patch on October 28. They have already fixed many potential crashes, are working on fixing more issues, also in multiplayer, and hope that they can get out the Mac version soon. Read the full update here: https://www.games2gether.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/blogs/784 Discuss this… Read More »
A reddit user has made some really interesting Civ6 pixel art, in a style of a beat-em-up. Have a look at the original reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/pruvri/i_made_pixel_art_versions_of_a_few_characters_in/
Soren Johnson has again published a blog post about the development work in Old World, this time about the end of the game. He describes the thoughts which went into the ambition system, the relationship to a role-playing AI, and how to make each game more dynamic and unique. An excerpt: “Of course, one might ask, wouldn’t the… Read More »
Aspyr, who are doing the ports of all Civ games to Mac, are now 25 years old! There is a Steam sale with 85% discount on Civ6, and 75% on Civ: BE, until October 18. You can find the whole sales overview here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/aspyr25 In addition to this they also have a celebratory give-away: You can win a… Read More »