Yearly Archives: 2025

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #279

By | December 16, 2025

And you are also getting the last Civ5 “Game Of The Month” for the year 2025! This time we challenge you to play as Oda Nobunaga on a standard size “small continents” map on (fittingly) Emperor level. Unfittingly, you must win a diplomacy victory though, and prevent all other civs from winning another victory. The earlier you win,… Read More »

CivGive 2025: A historical interview

By | December 15, 2025

During this year’s CivGive, history student and civ streamer Paisley_Trees was interviewing Firaxis historian Andrew Johnson. They talk about what their Civ7 strategy is (historic roleplaying…or not), why Oxford is not a medieval wonder, the current view on the beginning of human civilization, the complications with the languages in Civ, and a lot more. Watch the video, and… Read More »

Play the new Civ7 “Game Of The Month” #13

By | December 14, 2025

And it’s time for the special December “Game Of The Month”, called the “Krampus” edition. This is again a challenge for you, but with some more spiced-up requirements. The basics are that you play Machiavelli of Aksum on a huge Archipelago map on Deity level. The disaster intensity is catastrophic, and the independents are hostile. As special requirements… Read More »

Civ7 update 1.3.1, and part 2 of Tides of Power

By | December 9, 2025

Today we got the latest Civ7 update! Patch 1.3.1 comes with a new map type, Shattered Seas, better biome generation, rebalancing, bugfixes in the AI, UI changes and a lot more. The second part of the “Tides Of Power” DLC has also been released, and it’s still free until January 5. You can now (finally) play as the… Read More »

Lost LEGO Civ game, video leaked

By | December 9, 2025

We already mentioned it a while ago that there was apparently a cancelled LEGO civ game. It seems that this then flew under our radar for a while, and a month ago our user cuc had posted a leaked video from the unfinished game. Have a look at the video above, and discuss with us here.

Civ VII Developer Video – December 2025 – Update 1.3.1 drops tomorrow!

By | December 8, 2025

Sara came by today for again some news, and this time also the most exciting one: We can expect the update, and also the second part of the “Tides Of Power” DLC tomorrow! This all will come with another map type, Shattered Seas, better biome generation, some rebalancing and a lot more. Stay tuned for tomorrow, and check… Read More »

Civ Video Series Ep 04 – Civilization 2 HD Tour With Mods & Scenarios

By | December 7, 2025

5 years ago for Civ1s 30th anniversary we posted Blake’s video here about how to play it in HD with the best mods & scenarios and now as we close in on Sid Meier’s Civilization II 30th anniversary the time has come to do the same for Civ2. In the intervening years Blake has painstakingly searched, rescued &… Read More »

Nova Roma – new historic city builder (with demo)

By | December 6, 2025

Nova Roma is a historic city builder set in ancient Rome.You do your usual thing of collecting resources, building housing and infrastructure, manipulating the environment, and also pleasing the ancient gods.Nova Roma is published by HoodedHorse, who have also published Old World.The system requirements are rather moderate, and you can already try out a demo, before the game… Read More »