Yearly Archives: 2023

New indygame release: Myriads: Renaissance (a fantasy 4X)

By | June 2, 2023

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 »

Old World update #109

By | June 1, 2023

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 »

Civilization IV Hall Of Fame update

By | June 1, 2023

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 »

PolyCast 416: Let Us Trade Maps!

By | June 1, 2023

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 »

Layoffs at Firaxis

By | May 31, 2023

The current struggle in the techology sector also does not spare the gaming industry. Today it got public that Firaxis is laying off 30 of their developers. It is in general suspected that the poor sales of Midnight Suns are to blame, despite the game being a success among critics. We do not know right now which of… Read More »

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #159

By | May 27, 2023

As every month, you get a new “Game Of The Month”! This time you play as Nader Shah of Persia on a standard size continents map on deity level. For an additional challenge the disaster intensity is set to 2. You also need to go for a domination victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving one of… Read More »

Civilization 7 – Not before middle 2024?

By | May 24, 2023

We are all eagerly waiting for Civilization 7, so we cling to every piece of information we can get. Our moderator Eagle Pursuit has written down a short analysis of a recent fiscal report of Take2, and there is some chance that we will not get it before the middle of 2024. The fiscal report outlines various details,… Read More »

Total War: Pharaoh announced

By | May 23, 2023

Today, Sega has announced the newest title in the Total War franchise, Total War: Pharaoh.Fans of the series will not be suprised: Total War: Pharaoh continues with everything what belongs to Total War, so a turn-based overview map and real-time battles. The game will have 8 playable factions, of which Egypt, the Hittites and Canaanites are already known.… Read More »