Yearly Archives: 2026

Sullla’s AI Survivor: The Wait Is Over!

By | April 2, 2026

Season 9 Has Arrived! AI Survivor is an annual competition of all Civilization IV AI Leaders by long-time Civilization enthusiast and streamer Sullla. CFC is very excited to announce that the popular series returns after almost a two-year hiatus with Season Nine. AI Survivor has become quite an event over the years for both old and new Civ… Read More »

[April Fool’s] Firaxis, Mohawk Announce Sid Meier’s Older World

By | April 1, 2026

Just two days after releasing the Empires of the Indus expansion, Mohawk Games has announced what they are working on next – a dinosaur-themed strategy game. Sid Meier will be on loan to Mohawk to create the game that he described in 2022 as his “holy grail” game. Meanwhile, Soren Johnson will be spending the remainder of 2026 working with Firaxis… Read More »

Sid Meier’s Civilization II 30th Anniversary Celebration

By | March 22, 2026

A few years ago we celebrated Civ1’s 30th at CivFanatics and since time flies when you’re having fun playing Civ, it’s now Sid Meier’s Civilization 2’s 30th Anniversary so it’s time to celebrate again! Civ2 was the result of Brian Reynold’s genius taking Sid Meier’s brilliant formula to the next level and beyond turning Civilization from a one hit wonder… Read More »

Old World update #144

By | March 20, 2026

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game! Key features include tech tree search, buffs to the Enlightenment and Redemption theologies, and flanking conferring protection from counterattacks. With the next update, on March 30th, the Empires of the Indus expansion will arrive. Discuss this update with us here (and read the… Read More »

Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri Thinker mod v5.3 released

By | March 13, 2026

CivFanatics member Induktio recently released Thinker mod v5.3 for Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri that dramatically improves the game with much smarter AI, improved base management & unit design, better terraforming & expansion behavior, a rewritten more configurable map generator, many adjustable gameplay settings, UI & quality-of-life improvements, higher resolution support, and numerous compatibility & bug fixes. If you… Read More »

PolyCast 441: A Guest

By | March 5, 2026

The Polycast team is releasing some of their old episodes, which were not previously published due to circumstances with the editing. You can now download the PolyCast #441, which is from September 2024. The thread for this episode is here. The four-hundred-and-forty-first episode of PolyCast, “A Guest“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This… Read More »