Monthly Archives: June 2023

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #253

By | June 30, 2023

And for sure we also supply you with another monthly game also for Civ4! This “Game Of The Month” is this time not summery-themed, but is rather a response to the community, who requested some smaller maps. Therefore you play this time as Churchill on a small fractal map on Emperor level against 4 AIs. In contrast to… Read More »

TurnBasedLovers: 10 Indie Gems You Don’t want to Miss -Twitter’s Lair Top Picks #2

By | June 29, 2023

TurnBasedLovers has published another article/video, which is interesting to the CFC community, called “10 Indie Gems You Don’t want to Miss -Twitter’s Lair Top Picks #2”. The name doesn’t give it away that it’s interesting for us, but the list contains a range of games, which you definitely should have a look at. One of them is “Yield”,… Read More »

Revival: Recolonization released – a post-apocalyptic Civ!

By | June 28, 2023

Another interesting game has entered today early access – Revival: Recolonization.Revival: Recolonization is a turn-based 4X game on a hex-grid. You wake up after an apocalypse, one of the few people who remembers how the earth was before. You now need to claim leadership of a clan, build up a new civilization, fight against the robot AI which… Read More »

Alpha Centauri and AI

By | June 25, 2023

The recent hype around various AI tools has lead to some controversy, but also to many new possibilities. User Damjan on Facebook has used one of the AI image generators to give us new pictures of Alpha Centauri. You can find these pictures in the Facebook Alpha Centauri group, and also for discussion in our forum here.

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #161

By | June 20, 2023

And also for the Civ6 GOTM we are appreciating the nice summer climate! For the mid-june game you play as Sundiata Keita of Mali on a hot and arid standard-size “seven seas” map. The difficulty level is Immortal, and you need to go for a culture or diplomatic victory. The deadline for making the Sahara great again is… Read More »

History Respawned podcast: History Games at Not E3 2023

By | June 19, 2023

Robert Whitaker has released another episode of his History Respawned podcast. He is discussing with his co-host John Harney about VR, but more critical the most interesting games, which were not mentioned at the E3 (which was a lot). Besides obvious candidates like the next Assassin’s Creed and the most recent Zelda, they also talk about Civ7!You can… Read More »

TurnBasedLovers: Best 10 Turn-Based Strategy Games of the Last Two (And a Bit) Years (with Old World!)

By | June 18, 2023

TurnBasedLovers, obviously a website dedicated to turn-based games, has published a new article: Best 10 Turn-Based Strategy Games of the Last Two (And a Bit) Years.The list contains 10 turn-based games from the last 2+ years, which should be of special interst to the community which is interested in turn-based games (again, obviously). The list includes the very… Read More »

TheCivShow podcast with Andrew Johnson

By | June 17, 2023

Besides the regular civ-fanatics-hosted podcast “The PolyCast“, there is also the podcast from TheCivShow, a 3-person team who also regulary streams Civ6.Their last episode features @Andrew Johnson [FXS] , and they talk about his work on Civ, what a historian and writer does for Civ6.The description from Spotify is the following: 2 history buffs and 1 tech guy,… Read More »