Monthly Archives: July 2024

Sullla’s AI Survivor Season Eight – Game 5

By | July 8, 2024

AI Survivor is an annual competition of all Civilization IV AI Leaders by long-time Civilization enthusiast and streamer Sullla. Game 4 from a week ago ended up with heavily favored Mansa of Mali winning a peaceful cultural victory, while the rest of the world battled it out. Interestingly, Saladin of Arabia had a powerful early advantage in this… Read More »

FreeCol v1.2.0 released!​

By | July 7, 2024

A new version of FreeCol, the open source version of Colonization, has been released! The FreeCol Devs have also posted a big new release across the Sid Meier’s Colonization fans Discord, Reddit & Facebook groups, in case you are active on these sites. This release features a new Colony panel with improved building graphics. In addition, there are… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 Gauntlets!

By | July 7, 2024

The Civilization 5 “Hall Of Fame” is an ongoing competition, to gain the highest rank among all civ-fanatics for the various difficulty levels, map settings, etc. While you are always free to submit your latest wins, we also sometimes give you new challenges, the gauntlets. It is again the time for them, so we get 2 new challenges… Read More »

Ara: History Untold: Dev Diary, Ep. 20 – Historical Research; Civilopedia entry for Greece; and first gameplay

By | July 6, 2024

A lot has happened with Ara recently, there is a lot to update! The latest dev diary focuses on the historical research goes into the game. GamerZakh talkes to the narrative designer, about how they made sure that the ingame information is correct, how the starting point for Ara was chosen, and which technologies were included. A second… Read More »

Play the new Civ3 “Game Of The Month” #168 and #195

By | July 6, 2024

For the long summer months you also get 2 new GOTMs for Civ3! For the addon “Play The World” you get the GOTM 195: You play as Persia on a customized normal size Archipelago map with 8 opponents and roaming barbarians. Gallery are available earlier, to allow an earlier expansion. The deadline for this game is September 30.… Read More »

The Eternal War – A Story From Sid Meier

By | July 5, 2024

The official Firaxis account has posted a video about the “eternal war”. This is about a game in Civilization 2, where the player played beyond the year 3000, with a 1700 long war. The ice caps melted due to the nuclear weapons and the world turned into a swamp. Sid himself explains that Civ is not a world… Read More »

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #183

By | July 5, 2024

While the European championship might find a winner in Germany, in the new Civ6 GOTM you will certainly ensure that! You are playing as Ludwig II of Germany on a standard size Archipelago map with low sea level on Deity. You get abundant resources, monopolies and corporations, and a disaster intensity of 2. In addition to this, you… Read More »

Study The Past – a Civilization series retrospective (Civ 3)

By | July 4, 2024

The official Civilization social media accounts have published a third video in the Civ retrospective series, this time looking at Civilization 3. They highlight it’s new culture mechanics, strategic resources, refined Civiliopedia and reactive borders. It’s also worth noting that over the years CivFanatics members have created some truly amazing total conversion mods for Civ3 based on Starwars,… Read More »