Yearly Archives: 2022

Kotaku: Old World Is The Best New 4X Game In Years

By | May 26, 2022

The video game website Kotaku has just released a news article, which describes in its headline Old World as “The Best New 4X Game In Years”. An excerpt from the article below: I said simply calling this “Civilization x Crusader Kings” was unfair not because it’s technically wrong—five minutes with this game will show you that’s the case—but… Read More »

Humankind:Mississippians Community Event

By | May 25, 2022

Amplitude Studios, the developers of Humankind, have today announced another event: The Mississippians community event. This event adds another civ, the Mississippians, to Humankind, the basic stats of this civ you can see above. This civ was very well known for their earth work, and with this we also get three new challenges, running from May 1 to… Read More »

TakeTwo and Zynga merge

By | May 24, 2022

Yesterday it was announced that TakeTwo, the parent company of 2K which ownes Firaxis Games, will merge with the deveoper Zynga, which is mostly known for browser games. While we hope for not another iteration of CivWorld, this still allows us to speculate about the future development of Civ. Read more about it in our thread here, and… Read More »

Old World released on GOG and Steam

By | May 19, 2022

Old World has finally been released on GOG and Steam (May 19, 3 AM Eastern Time)! If you buy it within the first 2 weeks after release you also get the DLC “Heroes Of The Agean” for free! Old World is a game produced by the Civ4 lead designer Soren Johnson, and features, just like Civ, turn-based strategy… Read More »

Designer Notes 67 (podcast): Old World

By | May 18, 2022

Soren Johnson has updated his blog with another entry.This time it’s a podcast, and Soren and Leyla talk with Tom Chick and Bruce Geryk, both at QuarterToThree.The description of this episode is the following: In this episode, Tom Chick and Bruce Geryk interview Soren and Leyla Johnson about their new historical 4X, Old World. They discuss whether the… Read More »