The Value Foundation, a foundation dealing with history, video games, and education, has released a video where they discuss how various games have revolutionized game history. They talk about the concept of civilization, and how it appears in video games. Obviously they discuss our very favourite game, among others (e.g. Assassin’s Creed or Minecraft). They discuss that the… Read More »
And also for June we got you a new Civ5 challenge! This “Game Of The Month” lets you play as Ramesses II of Egypt on a standard size pangaea map on quick speed. The difficulty is King level, and you need to achieve a culture victory, while preventing all other civs from achieving another victory too. You have… Read More »
Today we got another release in the 4X hemisphere: Myriads: Renaissance.This game is a turn-based 4X game, set in a fantasy rennaissance setting. You colonize floating islands, develop them, recruit armies and fight battles.It also belongs to the more recent wave of smale-scale 4X games, with a single game taking roughly 4 hours to complete.The game just got… Read More »
Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things like bugfixes and UI enhancements, an improved turn summary, the creating of minor cities has been easened, and you can now also win an alliance victory in single player mode . Discuss this update with us here… Read More »
The Civ4 Hall Of Fame has again gotten an update! New players have been inaugurated in our everlasting Hall Of Civ Fame! You can find the whole overview in this thread! Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Tiny, Marathon, Noble, Space Colony game for 363,117 points. nocho was the most active player… Read More »
The four-hundred-and-sixteenth episode of PolyCast, “Let Us Trade Maps!“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus. Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Phil “TheMeInTeam”.. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h02m58s | Leader Pack 4: Rulers of the Sahara First Looks Forum Talk– 00h09m21s | Sequels in Strategy Gaming: Civilization II by Digital Antiquarian– 00h15m41s… Read More »