Monthly Archives: December 2024

Civ7: Short video on religion

By | December 9, 2024

Today Firaxis has released a new short, this time talking about religion. We get a few details about founder, enhancer and reliquary believes, have a close look at the screens. Please join us here for the discussion.

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” – Krampus edition

By | December 6, 2024

We are again back with the “Game Of The Month”, our monthly challenge for you to play the best Civ6 game ever. This time we have prepared you a game where you play as Tamar of Georgia on a small hot and arid Wetlands map with high sea level. You will play this game withh online speed on… Read More »

Civ7: New first look at Ibn Battuta, the main theme next week, and Civ7 most wanted!

By | December 5, 2024

We got three new interesting pieces of information for Civ7 today! As first, we got a look at Ibn Battuta. His most interesting skill is that he seems to be able to pick his attributes to his liking. He also gets increased sight for his units, and he can see some areas which other leades have explored. Accordingly,… Read More »

Civ7 Dev Diary #4 Emergent Narrative, and Playstation 5 gameplay trailer

By | December 4, 2024

Firaxis has released today the 4th dev diary, talking about the events in the game. In Civ7, a story will develop for the player, based on your decisions. You will not only see historical event, but also what-if events based on your choices, leading to some unique combiations which you might rarely see. If you want to discuss… Read More »

Civ5 Hall Of Fame – New Gauntlets

By | December 4, 2024

While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. For the G-Major CL we challenge you to play as Casimir III of Poland on a tiny “large islands” map on epic speed. You also need to play on King difficulty, and win a science victory.… Read More »

Civ news of the day: Songhai Civ7 guide, and how the Switch took Firaxis multi-platform

By | December 3, 2024

Today Firaxis gave us the official guide to the Songhai, the last exploration age civ. The Songhai are an economic and militaristic civ, with a starting bias for navigable rivers, plains, coast and desert. Most of their unique featurs such as improvements and units feature the water/rivers and give boni if on or adjacent to it. Curious? Check… Read More »

Civ IV Hall of Fame Update

By | December 3, 2024

The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 25 games were accepted since the previous update, with the highest highscores ever achieved in Civ4! Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Small, Normal, Prince, Domination game for 440,603 points. valergrad was the most active player during this update, submitting 10 games.​… Read More »

Historians discuss… with the Firaxis historian, and a new video on crises in Civ7

By | December 2, 2024

Civ6 streamer and history PhD student Paisley_Trees has together with a colleague interviewed Andrew Johnson during the CivGive charity stream last Sunday.They discuss how they pick the civs in combination with making an interesting and balanced game, that they read the forums here (although that we need to discuss things earlier; although we had the right timing with… Read More »