Yearly Archives: 2023

Civ IV Hall of Fame Update

By | July 26, 2023

The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 8 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to @SittinDown for the highest score of the update with a Standard, Normal, Noble, Domination game for 111,172 points.ruff_hi was the most active player during this update, submitting 3 games. New Number One Entries: A number of players gained… Read More »

Podcast: Choral languages, ancient worlds, and a little golf: The music of Christopher Tin

By | July 23, 2023

Meena Shamaly, host of the “Game Show” on ABC, and who also sings in the game score of “Old World“, has interviewed Christopher Tin. They talk about his career, how he got to compose Baba Yetu, how the grammy gave him many more options, like going into opera, and why he liks choires.An excerpt from the description: Along… Read More »

Hexarchy turns Civilization into an accessible 4X card game that you can finish in an hour

By | July 21, 2023

Today, PC Gamer has published an article about Hexarchy, titled “Hexarchy turns Civilization into an accessible 4X card game that you can finish in an hour”. In this article PC Game describes a bit how the deck building mechanics work, how you gather resources, and that you can finish a match in a single evening. An excerpt: While… Read More »

TurnBasedLovers: Top 20 Modern Turn-Based Strategy Games to Play in 2023

By | July 19, 2023

TurnBasedLovers has published another article/video, which is interesting to the CFC community, called “Top 20 Modern Turn-Based Strategy Games to Play in 2023“. The authors have made a list of interesting turn-based games from the last year, with no particular order in them, but all interesting.For the 4X fans among us, there is plenty of fodder, as they… Read More »

GameHistoryOrg: 87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games

By | July 11, 2023

The video game history foundation has posted an article, which is not about Civ1 or Civ2, but still in the current context very relevant. The article describes that 87% of historic video games (range 1960-2009) are currently not available at all. While many games can be bought on online platforms like Steam or GoG, the vast majority, nearly… Read More »