Yearly Archives: 2021

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #122

By | November 2, 2021

And also for Civ6 we get an interesting new “Game Of The Month”. The team has put together a new challenge, to find out who is the best civ player among the fanatics! In this game you play as Phillip of Spain on Prince level on a continents map. Due to Halloween you also get zombies, and you… Read More »

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #224

By | November 2, 2021

The “Game Of The Month” team has prepared again an interesting game for you this month! Can you beat everyone else, and be the best Civ-fanatic around? You can find out now! In the current Civ4 GOTM you play as Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia on a fractal map on prince level. You will need to strive for a… Read More »

PolyCast 393: Of Portugal and Feitorias

By | November 1, 2021

The three hundred-and-ninety-third episode of PolyCast, “Of Portugal and Feitorias“ 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: Forum Talk– 00h01m51s | Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley’s 2018 Speech to GDC– 00h07m26s | How Hard-coded is the Opening Gambit– 00h17m49s |… Read More »

Civilization VI Anthology: 60% off on Steam until Nov 1

By | October 30, 2021

The Civilization VI Anthology is currently discounted on Steam, with the whole bundle including expansions and DLCs for 39.78€. Check it out on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/21432/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VI_Anthology/

Old World soundtrack by Christopher Tin (and Old World sale)

By | October 29, 2021

Mohawk Games, the creators of Old World, have released a new patch. This update most critically contains 12 new tracks for the Old World soundtrack, composed by Civ music legend Christopher Tin, who created the award winning Civ4 title track “Baba Yetu”, as well as the Civ6 soundtrack. You can find the soundtrack on various platforms, namely Youtube,… Read More »

25 years Aspyr: Humble Bundle with Civ:BE

By | October 29, 2021

Humble Bundle has a 25th years Aspyr deal: Pay at least 10.13€ for 8 different games. The main interest for us CivFanatics is Civ: Beyond Earth, with the other titles e.g. Borderlands or Bioshock Infinite are less interesting, while still excellent. The price of 10.13€ still beats the regular Civ:BE price, so this is worth having a look.… Read More »

Marvel at Tomasz Zych’s Civ2 unit drawings!

By | October 28, 2021

Thomasz Zych, or Titos2k on Twitter https://twitter.com/titos2k , has drawn all the Civ2 units in a very nice style. He has uploaded them to his website, https://rysownik.com/illustration/civilization-2-units/ , and you can find a high-res version of the drawings also here https://rysownik.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/fullset-2.png . He has also published an article on medium about his experience drawing these units. Read it… Read More »

Civilization’s 30th birthday: Play the Civ1 scenarios!

By | October 27, 2021

Most people are aware of the extensive modding capabilities which there are in Civ. Starting from Civ2 we had great scenarios, space and fantasy mods, everything what you can imagine. But did you know that you could already mod Civ1? Our user blake has made a compilation of the available mods and scenarios for Civ1. He uploaded 11… Read More »