The Baltimore Banner, a news website dedicated to Baltimore, has just before Christmas ran a title called “How Baltimore County became a hidden world of video game companies“.As many of you know, Baltimore is the home to our most important gaming studio, Firaxis, but not only that. Its predecessor, Microprose, responsible for Civ1+2 was also situated in Baltimore,… Read More »
GamesRadar has today published an article called “Civ 5 caused a commotion at a space agency its creative director used to work at“.It seems that Ed Beach had worked as a contractor for the NASA, working at the Hubble Space telescope.It seems that the institute who’s dealing with the telescope is sitting in Baltimore, where also Firaxis is,… Read More »
Firaxis has released another short video, this time about one of the natural wonders, the Redwood Foreset. The ingame wonder reaches over 3 tiles, and will give quite some massive yield gain. Check out our discussion here.
Firaxis has posted holiday greetings over on Twitter, and now we wonder if there is something maybe hidden in the picture ;). If you want to join in on the greetings, or deeply analyze the picture, then join us here.
It’s sales times on Steam, and there is a great selection to choose from! From the civ franchise we got: Other interesting games are also on sale, and include: Save some money for Civ7 though ;).
Firaxis has today released the requirements for Civ7 to run on Mac and Linux computers, and they seem to be rather moderate. For the discussion about the new specs, and also for the PC specs, please check this thread.
Firaxis has today released the next dev diary, this time about combat. In this diary they talk about how you can use commanders to move your units, the promotions they get, siege warfare, and how the combat is now more immersive due to the concurrent battle animations on the battle field. Want to know more? Check our thread… Read More »