Fresh news from IGN, discuss with us here. The summary of the news article is that an already existing mobile game called “Conquests and Alliances”, a mobile 4X game, is being re-branded as “Civilization: Eras & Allies”. This does not affect the main work on the next Civilization title, which by a Firaxis spokesperson is explicitely not called… Read More »
And obviously we also have a new Civ5 GOTM! This time you play as Ahmad Al-Mansur of Morocco on a standard size fractal map on Emperor level. You need to win via a science victory, but you also most prevent all other civs from achieving another type of victory. See if you can get to the Islaminc Golden… Read More »
The Value Foundation, an academic research foundation focusing on research on gaming, has posted on Twitter that 2 researchers from Leiden University have published a new research manuscript about Civilization! The research is featured in the journal of digital games and associated phenomena (DIGRA), and titled “On Being Stuck in Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Promise of Freedom in… Read More »
For our Civ6 “Game Of The Month” we are setting a christmas-y theme! You play as Victoria (Age Of Steam) on a hot and arid standard size Seven Seas map on King level. You have abundant resources, a legendary start, and you play with monopolies and corporations. The science victory is a must, and it will definitely show… Read More »
We got another developer diary from the new Paradox game Millennia!This time the diary is about the economy in the game. The devs explain that many things are managed on a regional level, similar to the cities of civ, like food and health, whereas others are managed more on a global level. In total where will be 130… Read More »
The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 29 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to shulec for the highest score of the update with a Small, Epic, Monarch, Space Colony game for 193,742 points.ajw2255 was the most active player during this update, submitting 8 games. Only 2 players were brave enough to take… Read More »
And we are now at the 11th dev diary for Ara: History Untold.In this episode the devs talk about the game engine used in Ara, thatthis game studio actually started in a basement, that they saw the need for their own engine to better use the existing hardware (like multiple CPUs) so that more complex games could be… Read More »
The 81st installment of the FreeCiv Longturn game series set to start in a few days. Longturn is a 20 year old FreeCiv sub-community running one-turn-per-day games, where unlike a regular multiplayer game, their server is always running and players only need to log in once per day at their leisure. Usually the number of players is 10-30+… Read More »
