Yearly Archives: 2025

Civilization 4 & Civ4-Colonization Scenario/Mod Preservation Project

By | December 3, 2025

We recently posted about Blake’s new Civ3 preservation project continuing the work from his old Civ2 preservation project which went on to preserve several thousand lost Civ2 mods & scenarios. Now he’s kicked off a new Civilization 4 & Civ4-Colonization scenario/mods preservation project starting with 3 large collections totaling around 9 Gigabytes. If you’re a fan of Civ4 and its mods then we… Read More »

Civ7 First Look: Sayyida al Hurra

By | December 2, 2025

Sara came by today to give us some more info about the second part of the “Tides Of Power” DLC, and introduced to us the barbary pirate leader Sayyida al Hurra. She is a militaristic and diplomatic leader with a coastal starting bias, and both her special ability and agenda relate to naval units. Want to know more?… Read More »

Play the Civ7 “Game Of The Month” #12

By | December 1, 2025

The “Game Of The Month” is a community challenge, where we dare you to play game of Civ7, and show us that you are better than the rest of the civ-fanatics! For December, we have gotten you another one of these challenges. The prepared savegame starts you as Lafayette of Rome. For the GOTM we require you also… Read More »

Ara: History Untold – Free on Steam until December 1, and 50% discount

By | November 27, 2025

It seems that Amplitude wants to make the Americans a gift to distract them from their family this weekend: Ara: History Untold is free this weekend on Steam until December 1. In case you then notice that you can’t get enough of it, then you can get it also with a 50% discount, for 24.99 instead of 49.99.… Read More »

Old World update #141

By | November 26, 2025

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game! This update includes that you cannot any longer hire Barbarian units, that civilian units defend cities, units with leader generals are immune to control effects, as well as a long range of smaller changes and bugfixes. Discuss this update with us here (and… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #277

By | November 18, 2025

We start winter with another challenge for you. In this Civ5 “Game Of The Month” you play as Dido of Carthage on a small “large islands” map on Prince level. You must win via a domination victory, but all victories are enabled, meaning you must prevent other civs from e.g. winning a space or culture victory. The deadline… Read More »

The Game Awards: Civ7 nominated for best strategy game

By | November 17, 2025

With each new year, we also get a new version of The Game Awards.This year there will be awards given in 30 categories, and Civ7 has been nominated in the category “Best Sim/Strategy”.The nominees are the following: If you want to vote for Civ7, then please do that here, and join us for the discussion here.

Alpha Centauri: University Base Film Series – Episode 3

By | November 16, 2025

We’ve got a new episode in the excellent shortfilm series by Ratimir Rakuljic titled ‘University Base’ retelling the story of University faction leader Prokhor Zakharov’s journey to Alpha Centauri that we’ve been sharing over the last few years since the 25th anniversary of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. In this episode Colonel Santiago makes her move and the mutiny… Read More »