Spillhistorie.no: Q&A with: Michael Haire, former artistic director at MicroProse
The Norwegian website Spillhistorie.no, a retrogaming website, has interviewed Michael Haire, the former artistic director of Microprose, who worked on Civ1+2 and Alpha Centauri, among other titles. In this interview he describes how Microprose started up, that an art department for Civ1 was a big leap in these old computer game days, and that MicroProse being bought by… Read More »
Civ7 news of the day: Great People, and Prussia confirmed (?)
With the latest video Firaxis has added some explanation how great people work. They are unique to your civ, and must be unlocked by buildings. They also must be built, but will at the end give some pretty significant boni. Join us for the discussion about the video here. Our forum denizens have also noted that Prussia seems… Read More »
Civ VI Monthly Challenge: One More Turn
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
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
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
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
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 »