Both the Epic Games store and Steam have currently a 17% discount on pre-purchase Humankind digital dexuxe edition. Have a look at the offer here for the Epic store and here for the pre-order on Steam.
Soren Johnson has written a blog-post on the challenges with the concepts of “one unit per tile” (1UpT) versus “stacked units” in Old World, you can read it here. 1 UpT was certainly one of the most controversial changes going from Civ4 to Civ5. Soren did not work on Civ5, but had to make the same decisions for… Read More »
Despite that Civ2 is in the meantime a near-ancient game, our user pi-r8 still put in the work to produce a new “Let’s Play” for it on Youtube. He has recently finished it, and you can watch it here:
In case you can’t get enough of the music, you can order the Humankind sountrack as vinyl. Early pre-orders will get it signed by the composer. Find all the information here: https://www.g4f-records.com/en/produit/humankind-edition-vinyl/ Follow this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/humankindgame/status/1425139914899869699
Since there are two recent/upcoming games, which are of interest for the civ-fanatics community, we have decided to expand their forums. We have given sub-categories to both the Old World and Humankind forum, to allow a better organization of tech support, modding, strategy guides and and everything else what we desire for these games.
The three hundred-and-eighty-seventh episode of PolyCast, “Machine Learning“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus,Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: Forum Talk– 00h03m29s | Feedback from episode 386 on CivFanatics and YouTube, and why we aren’t available on Apple Podcasts (or other podcast services).– 00h25m22s | Remaining issues… Read More »
IGN has today posted a video (sponsored by SEGA itself, the distributors of Humankind), highlighting the most interesting features of the game. See the Tweet with the video below (click on the pic.twitter.com link for the video). Discuss this video in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/new-sega-sponsored-video-via-ign-about-humankinds-special-features.672247/ .
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra notifed Christoper Tin about this article on Mashable, about the best songs from video games, which aren’t instrumentals. Obviously our beloved Civ4 song “Baba Yetu” made it in the list. While we are not surprised, since it won as the first song from a computer game a Grammy, we are still happy that this… Read More »