Yearly Archives: 2024

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.

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 »

Euronews: “AI models chose violence and escalated to nuclear strikes in simulated wargames”

By | February 27, 2024

I do admit, these news are only very tangentially related to Civ6, but nevertheless interesting enough for us here: Nobody probably has not noticed the recent hype about AI, and how people try to use it for everything. Researchers from Cornell university have used different large language models (LLM) as agents in political scenarios and wargames. The models… Read More »