Monthly Archives: August 2024

Old World update #127

By | August 15, 2024

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update allows you to mark characters as notable and filter based on notability, and lets you know when your hidden units have been discovered, among other changes. Discuss this update with us here (and read the full list of changes too). Old… Read More »

New monthly challenge: Rotating Reduxes + Civilization VI is now Steam native!

By | August 15, 2024

Firaxis’ community manager Sarah has brought us some interesting news today: The first is that for the Civ6 “Challenge Of The Month”, you will this time be getting each week a tweaked version of one of the previous challenges! This starts on August 14 with the “Seven Seas” challenge, but you get a permanent dark age, twice as… Read More »

Historians analzying the Civ7 trailer as obsessively as CivFanatics!

By | August 14, 2024

Twitter user, Civ streamer and history student paisley_trees has also taken a look at the Civ7 trailer (together with a colleague), and is commeting on all the details.They also have a look at the graphics, comment on the lack of Sean Bean, and in general dissect it in the same fashion as we do.I am not sure… did… Read More »

Millennia: Ancient Worlds DLC and update 5

By | August 13, 2024

The Paradox community manager PDX Katten has dropped by at CivFanatics to announce the release of the new DLC for Millennia, called “Ancient Worlds“. The DLC focuses on prehistoric times, and adds quite some features in this era. You can now start with a nomadic band instead of your first city (so like in Civ), you get ancinet… Read More »

Sullla’s AI Survivor Season Eight – Wildcard Game 1

By | August 12, 2024

AI Survivor is an annual competition of all Civilization IV AI Leaders by long-time Civilization enthusiast and streamer Sullla. We now enter the playoff phase of AI Survivor, starting with Wildcard Game 1. There will be two wildcard playoff games this season for the first time as enough leaders survived the early round that a second wildcard game… Read More »

Civ 7 release date is in the first quarter of 2025 per quarterly report

By | August 10, 2024

Our moderator Eagle Pursuit has extracted from the quarterly fiscal report of Take2 that Civ7 is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2025, so January until March. Please note that the report says Q4 2025, which refers to the fiscal year, and not to the calendar year. It does refer to the Q1 of the… Read More »

PolyCast 436: They Say Strategy is Dying

By | August 9, 2024

The four-hundred-and-thirty-sixth episode of PolyCast, “They Say Strategy is Dying“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h01m22s | Study the Past by Firaxis: Civ 1, Civ 2, and Civ 3– 00h03m48s | OId World: Behind the Throne… Read More »

Civilization 3 Hall Of Fame – Update

By | August 9, 2024

The Civilization III Hall of Fame has been updated. 12 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to BlackBetsy for the highest Firaxis score of the update with a Large Deity Cultural 100k game for 12696 points. Spoonwood was the most active player during this update, submitting 9 games. Only 1 player was brave enough to take… Read More »