Yearly Archives: 2025

Hooded Horse publisher sale

By | January 23, 2025

It seems that Hooded Horse currently has a Steam sale!Right now Old World is 75% off, for only 9.99 (until Feb 1).Other titles which are potentially of interest are: Have a look at these sales, you might find something interesting among them. Join us here if you want to discuss them.

Next livestream on January 30, and new archeology video

By | January 22, 2025

Firaxis has announced the next Civ7 livestream, which will happen on January 30 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 5PM GMT / 7PM CEST to the Firaxis Games Twitch Channel or the Civilization YouTube Channel. A new civ will be shown, we will get to see some MP, and the devs will be talking about which DLCs… Read More »

New civ game guide: Buganda

By | January 21, 2025

Today Firaxis has released the next game guide, this time for Buganda. Buganda is a cultural and expansionist civ with a starting bias for tropical and lake tiles. Nearly all of their attributes, civic trees, unique units and wonder give boni from either lakes or from pillaging. Do you want to know more details? Then check out our… Read More »

New indie game release: Yield! Fall Of Rome

By | January 21, 2025

Today another interesting indie game has been released (into early release): “Yield! Fall Of Rome“.As many games in this forum, also this is a turn-based 4X game set on a hex field.It covers a time era which is not that common in 4X games, but still very interesting: The time after the fall of Rome.In this game you… Read More »

Check the new civ and leader ability comparison chart for Civ7!

By | January 20, 2025

Our user seek has put together some very nice charts comparing and showing the abilities of the currently known civs and leaders. Do you want to check which of them fit best together and to your playstyle? Have a look here!

Spillhistorie.no: Q&A with: Michael Haire, former artistic director at MicroProse

By | January 18, 2025

The Norwegian website Spillhistorie.no, a retrogaming website, has interviewed Michael Haire, the former artistic director of Microprose, who worked on Civ1+2 and Alpha Centauri, among other titles. In this interview he describes how Microprose started up, that an art department for Civ1 was a big leap in these old computer game days, and that MicroProse being bought by… Read More »

Civ7 news of the day: Great People, and Prussia confirmed (?)

By | January 17, 2025

With the latest video Firaxis has added some explanation how great people work. They are unique to your civ, and must be unlocked by buildings. They also must be built, but will at the end give some pretty significant boni. Join us for the discussion about the video here. Our forum denizens have also noted that Prussia seems… Read More »

Civ VI Monthly Challenge: One More Turn

By | January 17, 2025

Firaxis has released another Challenge Of The Month for Civ6: One More Turn! To be honest, that is each day a challenge for us, but we forgive them this ;). In this challenge Age-of-Steam Victoria on a small continents map on quick speed on either Prince or Emperor difficulty. Your main challenge though is to achive Diplomacy, Culture,… Read More »