Yearly Archives: 2021

Kotaku: What’s A 4X Game, And Why Do They Rule?

By | October 8, 2021

Kotaku has made a video about our most beloved genre: The 4X games. In this video, they go quickly back to the beginning of 4X with Master Of Orion 1, and then describe a bit the features which all these games have. The video is not very in-depth, but if you need to convince someone else why these… Read More »

PCGamesN: Old World will come to Steam and GOG in spring, also expansion announced

By | October 7, 2021

PCGamesN has an article today, telling that Old World will come to both Steam and GOG in spring, while it is still exclusive to the Epic store right now. The article also says that an addon will follow, although it says that there is nothing known besides that there will be an “expansion campaign”. Read the article from… Read More »

Old World patch #73, October 6

By | October 6, 2021

The creators of Old World have released a new patch. This update includes 7 new events, and otherwise mostly balancing and graphical changes. The full change log can be found here: https://mohawkgames.com/2021/10/06/old-world-update-73/ Discuss this patch in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-73-october-6.673586/

Play the new Civ3 “Game Of the Month”

By | October 6, 2021

It is again time for the new Civ3 “Game Of The Month”! In this competition you can play a set game, and see if you are doing better than your fellow Civ-fanatics! For the base Civ3 game, you can play this time as Spain on deity level with restless barbarians. You have until December 31 to finish this… Read More »

Read the first Humankind “Story”

By | October 5, 2021

Our user pholkhero has taken up one of the Civ traditions for also for Humankind: Writing a story. Story means in this case that you spin a role-playing story around your current game, describing why you do certain things in-game and why not others, with some flavour (all with screenshots). Some players also ask what decisions would be… Read More »

Video: Civilization 2 on the PS1

By | October 4, 2021

Sean Seanson has produced a video for the youtube channel of PotatoMcWhiskey, showcasing the Civilization 2 port on the PS1. The Civ2 version definitely looks like an improvement over the Civ1 version on the PS1, especially given that it is available in English. As the Civ1 version, the Civ2 version looks considerably different.If you’ve never seen either, have… Read More »

Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #209

By | October 2, 2021

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month”. In the “Game Of The Month” series you compete with other civ-players on who does best in a pre-set game. This time you play as Kamehameha on a small continents map on Immortal level. You have until October 30 to finish and to send in your savegame. Read all the… Read More »

Old World designer notes #9: Soren Johnson on events

By | October 1, 2021

Soren Johnson has published a new blog post, this time about “events”, have a read here. Soren this time writes about how the random events in Civ4 were a necessesity to allow scripted actions happen, and that they were missed from Civ2, since they allowed great story mods there. He didn’t want to repeat them in Old World,… Read More »