Yearly Archives: 2025

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 »

Civ7: New batch of videos with lots of information

By | January 16, 2025

It seems the press-embargo for the streamers was lifted today, therefore we got lots of new info! If you want to check out the new videos, then please see the links for all of them here, and there is a longer discussion going on here. Among the new information is that you apparently cannot rename cities, that there… Read More »

New civ guide: Siam

By | January 15, 2025

Firaxis has today given us one of the last civ guides for the base game, and we got a surprise reveal, which nobody had on their radar: Siam. This surprise also ensures that we cannot have both Britain and Germany in the base game, which will certainly spark interesting discussions. For an overview over all civs please see… Read More »

Civilization VII Dev Diary #7: Legends & Mementos

By | January 14, 2025

Firaxis has released another dev diary today, and they are talking about “legends & mementos”. Firaxis wants to make it more fun to play through any game of civ. In Civ5 and Civ6 this was helped by achievements. But for Civ7, the devs thought of more. You will be able to keep track of your whole progress over… Read More »

Civ7: Russia as a civ and Catherine the Great

By | January 13, 2025

Today Firaxis revealed the second last civilization and an associated leader: We are getting Russia and Catherine the Great. Russia is a cultural and scientific civ with a starting bias for tundra and furs. Russia has as UUs Cossacks and the Katyusha, and gets as their associated wonder the Hermitage. For more information have a look at the… Read More »

Play the new Civ3 “Game Of The Month”

By | January 11, 2025

If you’re looking for a challenge for Civ3, then don’t go further, and look here! The new “Game Of The Month” is available, you can try to tackle the following to savegames: In the GOTM #197 for the addon “Play The World” you will play as Carthage on a normal sized wet and warm pangaea map on regent… Read More »

Polygon: Master of Orion tabletop game to launch crowdfunding campaign next week

By | January 10, 2025

For us old-timers among the CivFanatics: A MoO tabletop game is in the making!Polygon has today posted an article called “Master of Orion tabletop game to launch crowdfunding campaign next week“, talking about that a launch of a crowd-funding campaign is imminent!Classic civs like Psilons, Klackons, Darloks and Silicoids will be on-board, as well as e.g. Deathstar ships.The… Read More »

Civ7 update: France, Lafayette as a leader, and Steamdeck certified!

By | January 9, 2025

Firaxis has again shared some new and exciting news with us. We were well aware that France would be part of Civ7, and now we got all the details. The French Empire is a militaristic and diplomatic civ with a starting bias for wine (no joke). Their associated wonder is the Eiffel Tower, and one of their unique… Read More »