Yearly Archives: 2021

30 years of Civilization: Civilization 1 HD Tour With Mods & Scenarios

By | September 16, 2021

Our user Blake00 has made a very special present for Civ’s 30th birthday: A video series showing what things Civ1 is capable of! Would you have thought that you can play Civ1 in HD quality? That there are mods for Civ1? That you can get really good sound for Civ1? Or that you could play it on the… Read More »

Old World designer notes #8: Soren Johnson on opinions

By | September 16, 2021

Soren Johnson has published a new blog post, this time about “Opinions”, have a read here. This blog post is mostly about how in the Civ games, you would mainly need to deal with threats from the outside, and the only thing which internally is causing issues is unhappiness and related concepts. This is a very simple mechanic,… Read More »

Humankind beta-version for Mac now available

By | September 16, 2021

Amplitude has announced yesterday that a beta-version of Humankind for Mac should be available now. You can read all the necessary information here: https://www.games2gether.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/blogs/782-humankind-mac-beta-available-now

Old World patch, September 15

By | September 15, 2021

The developers of Old World have released a new patch. Besides various bug fixes, the game now includes a manual and a tutorial! Discuss this patch in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-september-15.673281/ Follow this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mohawkgames/status/1438249262496686081

Humankind is the best selling PC game for August 2021

By | September 15, 2021

Both PCGamesN and Venturebeat report that latest sales numbers report Humankind as the best selling PC game for August. It’s overall 4th, after 3 multi-platform games, it is also the best selling strategy game after Crusader Kings III last year and in addition so far the best selling PC game of the year. It is great to see… Read More »

More sales: Stellaris for free, 10% discount on Old World

By | September 14, 2021

Next to the ongoing Stardock sale, there is more fodder coming for us Civ-fanatics! Stellaris, a 4X space game from Paradox, is for free until September 20. Get it for free here. But if you’re looking for something newer, more civ-like, then have a look at Old World, which is currently 10% discounted down to 30€ until September… Read More »

PCGamer: “The top 100 PC games”, including Old World!

By | September 13, 2021

PCGamer has published an article about the top 100 games, which you should be playing this year. While this is time-wise tight, with an average of 3 days per game, you need to make a selection, so we are very happy that this is not too hard: Old World has been included in the list! From the article:… Read More »

Steam sale of Stardock games

By | September 13, 2021

Steam has currently a sale of various Stardock games. The “Galactic Civilizations” series has also a standing fan community on CFC, and “Galactic Civilizations III” (Ultimate Edition) is right now discounted from 91€ down to 32€. You can discuss this game here. The game “Fallen Enchantress” is a turn-based fantasy game, and was co-developed by Kael, who was… Read More »