Monthly Archives: September 2025

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 »

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 »

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 »