History: An Imperial Letter From Süleyman the Magnificent to Dom João III Concerning Proposals for an Ottoman-Portuguese Armistice

By | January 3, 2022
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The Twitter user paisley_trees, who is a history reseacher at Yale, has put our attention to this letter, which was sent by Süleyman the Magnificent to Dom Joao III of Portugal, who are both leaders in Civ6. This letter actually concerns a trade agreement between both countries. Both Ottomans and Portugese had some confrontations regarding the domination of… Read More »

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month”

By | January 2, 2022
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Right before we went into the holidays, the Civ6 team has prepared you another GOTM, so that your holidays don’t have to be calm and peaceful ;). For this GOTM you play Mansa Musa of Mali on a standard size inland sea map on Deity level. You have until January 25 to finish this game. You can find… Read More »

Good gamers, good managers? A proof-of-concept study with Sid Meier’s Civilization

By | December 28, 2021
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The “Review Of Managerial Science” has a few days ago puliblished an article called “Good gamers, good managers? A proof-of-concept study with Sid Meier’s Civilization“. In this article, 4 scientist of the University of Lichtenstein, the University of Rotterdam and the University of Münster had the hypothesis that being good at games, which require managing skills, might also… Read More »

Merry Christmas from Civfanatics

By | December 25, 2021
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We want to wish everyone some happy and relaxed holidays, and also lots of joy while pillaging the pantry :).

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” 227

By | December 22, 2021
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And it’s again time for the Civ4 “Game Of The Month”, so that you all have something to play over Christmas! This time you play as Kublai Khan of the Mongols on a standard size earth2 map on Immortal level. You have until January 24 to finish this game. All details can be found in this thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-botm-227-kublai-khan-immortal-starts-dec-20.674576/

PCGamer: Best Strategy 2021: Old World

By | December 22, 2021
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PCGamer has elected Old World as their best strategy game of 2021. Which is quite a feat, since this meant it also beat e.g. Age Of Empires 4!The article can be found here: https://www.pcgamer.com/best-strategy-game-2021-old-world/ An excerpt:“It’s so much more than Civ with Crusader Kings’ humanity, though. Mohawk Games and designer Soren Johnson have also reconsidered a big list… Read More »

Civilization’s 30th birthday: Blake’s Civ2 mod preservation project

By | December 21, 2021
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And we’re still going strong on celebrating Civ’s past! Especially our user Blake00 has been extremely active, and has undertaken a massive project: He’s hunting through the net, our threads, and everywhere else possible to preserve all the great Civ2 mods, and make them available again. He has already uploaded more than 200 Civ2 mods from all the… Read More »

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #125

By | December 21, 2021
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The new “Game Of The Month” for Civ6 is available again. If you feel like conquering the world over Christmas, here is your challenge: This time you play as Catherine de Medici of France on a standard size lake map on Immortal difficulty. You have until January 15 to complete this game. You can find all the details,… Read More »