Yearly Archives: 2025

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #260

By | January 9, 2025

And in the new year we also continue to task you with a new Civ5 challenge each month! This time the team has prepared the following: We want you to play as Washington on a standard size Fractal map on Deity difficulty. You must win this game with a culture victory, and you got as usual one month… Read More »

New civ7 civ guide, Qing, and dev diary #6 about diplomacy

By | January 8, 2025

Firaxis has started the new year with two new pieces of Civ7 info! As first, they have revealed the Civ guide for the Qing. Qing China is an economic and expansionist civ with a starting bias for Tundra. The Qing especially profit from imported goods, and having buildings and units stacked closely to each other will also give… Read More »

Polygon: Civilization 7’s creative director on the new Ages, leaders, and cultures ‘without any written records’

By | January 7, 2025

Polygon has released a new article today, in which they interview Ed Beach about some of the design choices in Civ7. He talks about the decision to split leaders and civs to allow more diverse/interesting choices, that they had 2 historians on the team and consulted with the Shawnee, that they considered the opposite with civs and leaders… Read More »

New Civ5 gauntlets!

By | January 6, 2025

If you want to claim your place in the eternal Civ5 “Hall Of Fame” at CivFanatics, then now you got another chance! While we always accept your best-scoring game to be listed, we also like to give you specific challenges to tackle. This time we have these 2 for you: In the G-Major CLI we want you to… Read More »

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #284

By | January 6, 2025

Even in 2025 we continue to provide you a new Civ4 challenge each month! If you want to compete this month for the crown of best Civ4 player, then we want you to play the following game: You play as Bisma…. Weihnachtsman from the magical kingdom on a cold standard size Earth2 map on Monarch difficulty. The deadline… Read More »

PCGamer: “Civilization 7 senior historian prays it’ll be a ‘gateway drug’ into textbooks”, and physical PCGamer article

By | January 5, 2025

The whole title doesn’t fit into the name of the thread, but it’s “Civilization 7 senior historian prays it’ll be a ‘gateway drug’ into textbooks: ‘I teach undergraduates in my other life, and my God, man, they don’t read’”.Our Firaxis forum resident @Andrew Johnson [FXS] told us about it, and he’s also the name-giving historian.For most of our… Read More »

Civ IV Hall of Fame Update

By | January 3, 2025

Our eternal Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 9 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Tiny, Marathon, Emperor, Space Colony game for 539,238 points. nocho and fizbankovi were the most active players during this update, submitting 2 games each. Only one player… Read More »

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #189

By | January 1, 2025

We also start the new year of 2025 with a new challenge for you to play! In this Civ6 GOTM you play Yongle of China on a standard size hot and wet Continents & Islands map with low sea level on Prince difficulty. You get a legendary start, Barbarian Clans, Monopolies & Corporations, and you need to use… Read More »