Yearly Archives: 2024

Live stream – The Head Of Cyrus monthly challenge

By | March 5, 2024

Firaxis has announced that they will be running a live stream for the latest Civ6 Monthly Challenge, “The Head Of Cyrus”. The live stream will happen on March 8, 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 8 PM CET, and can be found on the Firaxis Youtube channel and Twitch channel. Discuss the live stream with us… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #240

By | March 4, 2024

And for March you very definitely also get a Civ5 GOTM! This time you play as Hiawatha on a small boreal map on Immortal level. You need to win via a domination victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving another victory too. You have until April 1 to finish this challenge. For more information please check this… Read More »

The Millennia demo – the CivFanatics verdict

By | March 3, 2024

The Millennia demo has been available for quite a while, and many users here at CivFanatics have played it eagerly. Shortcomings have been clear, but it also has found many people who are interested in curious about the full game. The community has given us some short judgements, including (but not limited to) the following: “A challenger appears!”… Read More »

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #269

By | March 2, 2024

Also our March GOTM is a themed one: You play as Julius Caesar (obviously) on a standard size toroidial fantasy realm map on Immortal level. You get goody huts and events, and you are free to dominate the world in whatever way you like. This GOTM will run until April 8. For more information please check this thread.

More news on mobile Civ game (most likely China specific)

By | March 1, 2024

A new post on the Chinese platform bilibili has given us some new screenshots as well as a video of the mobile Civ game, which is in development and might potentially only be available for the Chinese or a wider Asian market. The game was originally announced as “Civilization: Eras & Allies”, and is based on an already… Read More »

Millennia | Basics Tutorial with JumboPixel

By | March 1, 2024

The regular Civ streamer JumboPixel now has also published a short tutorial video for Millennia.This video was done in collaboration with the devs. Discuss this video with us here.

PolyCast 430: Historical Anecdotes

By | February 29, 2024

The four-hundred-and-thirtieth episode of PolyCast, “Historical Anecdotes“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h04m03s | February Challenge of the Month: The Head of Cyrus– 00h15m04s | Experiences with Paradox’s Millenia Demo– 00h40m42s | Alpha Centauri… Read More »

Explorminate: The Top 4X Games of 2024(X)

By | February 28, 2024

Explorminate has published a new videos, about the best 4X games to be expected.They start with how the 90s with Civ2 and MoO was the golden age of 4X, although 2023 also had a ton of good games, including the expansions for Old World and Humankind, GalCiv4, Spellforce and others. They then follow-up with the 5 most interesting… Read More »