PolyCast 423: Formula 1 is Responsible for This

By | February 6, 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 #423, which is from June 2023. The thread for this episode is here. The four-hundred-and-twenty-third episode of PolyCast, “Formula 1 is Responsible for This“ is now available for streaming on the… Read More »

Play the new Civ7 “Game Of The Month” #16

By | February 5, 2026

We have the next challenge for Civ7 for you available: The “Game Of The Month”, #16. If you dare to, we challenge you to play a better game than any civ-fanatic with the provided starting savegame. In the savegame, you play as the new Gilgamesh of the Han people on a standard size “Terra Icognita” map on Deity… Read More »

PCGamer: Moroccan pirate queen Sayyida al-Hurra was largely omitted from history books, but now she’s in Civilization 7 thanks to a professor’s curiosity and years of research

By | February 4, 2026

We have already heard a lot about Firaxis has worked with the Shawnee, and we’ve also gotten interesting insights from Firaxis chief historian, but now PCGamer has published an interesting article about another new addition in Civ7: Sayyida al-Hurra. In the article PCGamer writes about how Firaxis stumbled upon her by accident due to academic research by a… Read More »

Civ7: Patch 1.3.2 released, and Gilgamesh available

By | February 3, 2026

Today we got the next Civ7 patch, 1.3.2. It seems our last announcement was wrong though, as the very big changes will only be coming in the future. In this patch you get nested tooltips, a new appeal lense, together with a range of minor fixes for the AI and UI, as well as civ re-balancing. Also interesting… Read More »

Civ7: Anniversary update, patch 1.3.2 coming tomorrow

By | February 2, 2026

Sara surprised us today by announcing that the next patch will be released tomorrow, and oh my, it is a big one! In this patch, you will be getting the option to play the whole game as one civ, which many people had requested before. Going together with it, the victory conditions are also getting a rework to… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #282

By | February 2, 2026

The next Civ5 “Game Of The Month” is ready for you to play! If you want to compete all other civ-fanatics to find out who is the best, then we offer you now the next challenge! In this game you play as William of the Netherlands on a standard size Oceania map on Immortal level. You must win… Read More »

New Civ7 merchandise available

By | February 1, 2026

The announcement is from earlier this month, but it seems we missed it: New Civ7 merchandise is available.All the official merchandise can be bought in the official store here.As you can see from the picture, the new items are a tumbler, a baseball cap, a mousepad, a set of pins (mystery selection), a sherpa blanket, and a new… Read More »

Demo available for “Folk Emerging”, the prehistoric civ game

By | January 30, 2026

We have posted already a few times about “Folk Emerging”, as it probably tickles every civ-fans interest: It is a turn-based 4X game, but you are not managing a civilization, but a stone-age tribe, who needs to discover fire and the wheel, hunt and gather for food, battle other tribes, with the aim to survive. And now there… Read More »