GOG has a 48h giveaway. The game “Thea 2: The Shattering” is freely available for everyone for 2 days.The game is a turn-based strategy game on a hex grid. On first glance it reminds one of “Heroes Of Might & Magic”.The self-description on the GOG webpage is:“Thea 2: The Shattering is a follow-up to the successful Thea: The… Read More »
Masters of Magic is one of the strategy classics out there, dating back to 1994, and having also been described as a fantasy version of Civ.The wargaming publisher Slitherine is working on a remake of it, to be released this year.The game seems to include a hex-based overview map, turn-based combat, city management and spell research.In their latest… Read More »
Christopher Tin has pointed out the above medley on Twitter. The Punk Rock band “Punk Rock Factory” was apparently asked to produce this medley by SXSW, and they included Baba Yetu in it.For everyone interested, it’s at 4:22. Discuss this video in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/punk-rock-factory-sxsw-gaming-medley-with-baba-yetu.676093/
Soren Johnson has given a talk at this year’s “Game Developers Conference“, titled“My Elephant in the Room: An ‘Old World’ Postmortem“. In this talk, he apparently also coverd the Civ3 bargaining table, since PCGamer has an article titled “Soren Johnson says Civ 3’s bargaining table was a ‘big mistake’“.In this article they cover how Soren thinks that this… Read More »
Anton Strenger, the lead designer of the Civ6 “New Frontier Pass”, has given a presentation at this year’s “Game Developer’s Conference“. His presentation was titled “Ahistorical Accuracy: Bringing New Myths and Representation to ‘Civilization’”, and you can find the summary here. The talks were recorded, but he does not yet know if the recording will be freely available.… Read More »
We continue our series about potentially interesting games for Civ-fans, and this time it’s about Hexarchy. Hexarchy is a civ-like game, it plays on a hex-grid, turn-based, and you build cities, units and wonders. The main difference to Civ is that it is a deck-builder: You have each round a certain amount of cards (units, buildings, technologies, etc),… Read More »
Our long term user alcaras has made a video about some basics in Old World. Have a watch if you want to get to know some of the mechanics deeper, and discuss this video in the Old World video thread.
For the celebration of Women’s history month, Firaxis has released some great artworks for some of the female Civ leaders.The artworks were drawn by 2 employes of 2K and a freelance artist, some are more in the style of Civ, some less. You can find all the artwork here: https://civilization.com/fr-FR/news/entries/civilization-celebrates-women-s-history-month/ and discuss them in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civilization-celebrates-womens-history-month.675939/