And also our Civ3 “Game Of The Month” is still going on! As usual, you get 2 different GOTMs, one for the “Conquests” expansion and one for the “Play The World” expansion. For the “Conquests” GOTM you play as queen Elisabeth of the English on an Archipelago map. The Pyramids have been replaced by Stonehenge, and you get… Read More »
Long time Civ fans already know the problem: You cannot get the original Civ1 anymore, and using the original on a current PC will be very hard, due to the changed requirements. But there is someone to the rescue! User dom111 has been working on an implementation which you can use on your current PC (or smartphone, as… Read More »
Jimmy Maher of The Digital Antiquarian has written an article on the emergence of game sequels breaking them down into two categories, the fiction-driven and the systems-driven, using Sid Meier’s Civilization II as a good example of the later. Jim then deep dives into telling the story of how Bryan Reynolds created Civilization 2 and how he overhauled… Read More »
And also February gets another “Game Of The Month”! This time you play as Catherine de Medici (Magnificence) of France on a huge “continents & islands” map on King level. The map is wet, with abundant resources and a legendary start, but you need to deal with barbarian clans. You also need to achieve a culture victory, and… Read More »
A strange curiousity in the world of turn-based games has been published: Inkulinati.This game is set in a medieval setting, drawn like medieval paintings, and features turn-based battles with all kinds of animals-gone-knight figures.This game is not a 4X, and features exclusively battles in a crazy medieval world. It might be of interest for some of our tacticians,… Read More »
Twitch streamer boesthius has taken up a very special challenge: Play as Qin, and don’t settle any cities. This was obviously a crazy and tough game, but he succeeded! This has even caught the attention of PCGamer, who wrote an article about this here.A blurb from the article: The whole video is worth watching. Boesthius made the challenge… Read More »
The Civilization IV Hall of Fame (a collection of the best user played Civ4 games for any setting) has been updated – 6 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to @Peteyboy for the highest score of the update with a Standard, Normal, Noble, Domination game for 138,767 points. @Peteyboy was the most active player during this… Read More »
The four-hundred-and-eleventh episode of PolyCast, “We Left the Ladder In, Right?“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan” with guest co-host TheChrisD. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h01m56s | Solium Infernum, A Turn-Based Strategy Game in Hell– 00h09m40s | From Alpha Centauri to Beyond EarthForum… Read More »