Explorminate, a website dedicated to 4X, strategy and tactic games, has published a list of interesting games currently in development.Most of these games are also interesting for us Civ-fanatics, and have been mentioned here on CFC before. The list: Spellforce: Conquest of Eo Master of Magic (reboot) Alliance Of The Sacred Suns Revival: Recolonization Ara – History Untold… Read More »
CivFanatics has a long standing tradition of the “Game Of The Month” (short: “GOTM”), where a team of fellow Civ-fanatics organizes new, challenging savegames for the community, to compete against each other. The goal here is not only to beat the game, but then to afterwards compare your approach to the approach of other players, and see who… Read More »
And we continue with the heat-wave theme for the Game Of The Month! In this GOTM you play as John Curtin of Australia on a standard size hot and wet Island Plates map. You need to go for the Science Victory to prevent global warming, but corporations are enabled, up to your government if this will be a… Read More »
Robert Whitaker has released another episode of his History Respawned podcast. He is discussing with his co-host John Harney about the most interesting games at the Gamescom, e.g. Victory 3 or Age of Empires IV. This release of the podcast is combined with an earlier episode of the Civs 101 series about the Inca from July last year.… Read More »
ABCClassic, normally a broadcaster for classical music, has published their second episode about computer game soundtracks. This episode is about sci-fi and fantasy soundtracks, and might interest some people here, because it contains 2 songs composed by Christopher Tin (who won the Grammy for the Civ4 main theme) for OffWorld Trading Company (a game by the Civ3 lead… Read More »
10 days ago we started a little competition to give away three keys for ZOR: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs. This game is a turn-based monster manager, where you up try to bring your two Slorfs through a crazy world while building up your deck and managing your base. The creator turned out to be a lurker here at… Read More »
PCGamer has published an article about another game which is dear to us: The original Colonization. In this article the author writes about it was in the shadow of civ, about the struggles of resouce management, dealing with the natives, the lackluster combat and obviously the one-more-turn feeling. An excerpt:“For an indecisive player like me, it’s torture. I… Read More »
Win a copy of ZOR: Pilgrimage of the SlorfsThere are a lot of Civ fans, as you know. As it turns out, some of these fans are also game developers, and long time lurkers at CFC!One of them is @Righteous Hammer Games , who will release his game ZOR: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs on August 30 on Steam. He’s excited about the… Read More »