WarGamer.com, a site dedicated to tabletop and war games, has published a list of the best 4X games for PC.As it has to be, despite it’s age, Civilization 6 is still on the list, together with one of our other favourites, Old World. They point out Old World’s interesting order system, as well as Civ’s ever expanding scope… Read More »
And also the Civilization 6 GOTM continues into the new year! In the first game of 2023 you play as Gilgamesh of Sumeria on a standard size arid and cold lakes map with sparse resources. You need to achieve a domination or religious victory, and you have time until February 2. For all details please check this thread.
GamesRadar has published a news article about Jake Solomon, one of the pillars of Firaxis. Over his carreer he has worked on Civilzation 3, Civilization Revolution, the XCOM titles and the recently published Midnight Suns. Despite having been at Firaxis for ages, he describes himself not as a Civ guy. He worked closely with Sid Meier and Soren… Read More »
New year, new GOTM! This Game Of The Month has already started during Christmas, but there is still plenty time to help out Santa and his elves! In this GOTM you play Santa (well, actually the Vikings) on a normal size, but heavily modified Earth2 map on Noble level with cold climate. You start with 2 reindeer (okay,… Read More »
We got notified via Twitter of this video above, showcasing the best mobile offline games, which you should play in 2023.A lot of these should be very interesting in case you don’t have Civ on your mobile phone, so check out this video, and discuss it with us here.
After 20 years of working, a big step has been made: The developers of FreeCol have released the version 1.0.0 of their free Colonization remake! The big release includes updated forest graphics, better AI, adjustments to make it closer to the original Colonization, and more! This new release has also been covered by PCGamesN. Discuss with us here.
TurnBasedLovers have taken again a look at one of our beloved classics, Alpha Centauri, and have written now 23 years after its release another review.They praise the philosophical depth of the story and the versatility of the overall gameplay with all its choices. And as expected, from today’s point of view (and also back at the time) the… Read More »
Soren Johnson’s talk from the GDC of 2022 has now been released on Youtube.He talks obviously about Old World, about Civilization and how Old World is similar and different, and about issues of the 4X genre in general.He also talks about the decision to include characters and a kind of story into the game. Source: Twitter. If you… Read More »
