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 »
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.
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 »
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, 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 »
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 »
With this Civ5 “Game Of The Month” we’re giving you a vacation on a nice island during the sunny summer days! You play as Suleiman of the Ottomans on a standard-size islands map on Emperor level. You need to go for a domination victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving one of the other victories as well.… Read More »
Most people here probably already know the grand strategy games from Paradox.These games are real-time strategy games where you manage your empire, build armies and conduct diplomacy.One of them, the 11 years old Crusader Kings II is currently free on GOG, so if you feel the urge for more 4X, then go and download it right now. Discuss… Read More »