Monthly Archives: September 2025

Civ7: New update 1.2.5 coming next week

By | September 22, 2025

Sara came gain by today, to tell us that the next update, 1.2.5, will be coming soon! It seems we will be getting 2 new map scripts, Napoleon will get rebalanced and new city states will be included. Part 2 of the Right to Rule DLC will also be released, with Lakshmibai, Silla, and Qajar. For the discussion… Read More »

Designing Sound for the Centuries in ‘Civilization VII’ – with the Firaxis Sound Team

By | September 8, 2025

Jennier Walden from “A Sound Effect” has interviewed the Firaxis sound team (incl. Geoff Knorr and Roland Rizzo) about their work for Civ7, in the article called “Designing Sound for the Centuries in ‘Civilization VII’ – with the Firaxis Sound Team”.They talk about the sound effects which were necessary for the user interface, that extra sound variations are… Read More »

Civ4 for free for Amazon Prime members

By | September 6, 2025

If you got Amazon Prime, then you can currently get the Civ4: Complete Edition for free. This offer is valid until December 3. The version which you get on Prime is a key for GOG.com, meaning you do not have to use Prime to play Civ4, and Civ4 will be available for you also after December 3. If… Read More »

1492 – Colonization of the New World – new Colonization like game expected 2025

By | September 5, 2025

Blake has found another game, which surely will be of interest for the CivFanatics: “1492 – Colonization of the New World”. As you can expect from the title, the setting and what you know about a title called “Colonization”, this is a turn-based 4X game, where you need to settle the new world. The graphics are a neat… Read More »

Layoffs at Firaxis

By | September 4, 2025

It seems that today various personnel at Firaxis got layed off, mostly junior staff members. This got also confirmed by 2K, and is the 3rd round of layoffs this year already. This comes despite that the 2K CEO recently claimed that Civ7 is still on track for its expected revenue. For more information please read this news article,… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #272

By | September 3, 2025

We got you another “Game Of The Month” for Civ5 for you, in case you’re tired of the holidays and want again a tough competition! This time you compete as Ramkhamhaeng of Siam on a standard size oval map on Prince level. Your task is to finish as fast as possible with a diplomacy victory? You think you… Read More »

Anno 117 – Demo now available

By | September 2, 2025

The traditional city builder series “Anno” will be getting there next installment this year, with Anno 117: Pax Romana, which has been in development for a while. There is now a demo available, for the next 2 weeks (until Sept 16). You can download it via Steam, Epic or Ubisoft Connect here.The demo requires the Ubisoft launcher, it… Read More »

Play the new Civ7 “Game Of The Month” #9

By | September 1, 2025

We got the next “Game Of The Month” for Civ7 for you! Compete with other civfanatics who’s the best at Civ7 in a predefined game! This time you start as Ibn Babutta of the Maurya, and must progress to Songhai and Buganda. You play on a standard size map on Sovereign level with light disaster intensity. Your task… Read More »