After a long time discussing the entries of the birthday contest, our team has finally decided about the best presents our users have given to Civ. The 3 main prizes, a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a Civ merchandise package, goes to our users topsecret, Hinin and MasterOaks. The prize for best… Read More »
After already being in the list of the “Top 100 PC Games which you should play this year”, Old World has now been nominated for the “PC Game Of The Year” and for “Best Indie Game” at the “Golden Joystick Awards”. You can find all nominations here: https://www.gamesradar.com/golden-joystick-awards-2021-nominations/ Please vote for Old World here: https://www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoystickawards/ Discuss these nominations… Read More »
The next Civ6 “Game Of The Month” is now available! In this competition you can play each month the same savegame and compare yourself against all the other dedicated civ-players here. Will you be the best? Only one way to find out! This time you play as Gilgamesh on Immortal difficulty on a standard size map. You have… Read More »
The above video was recently published, mentioend on Twitter, and we think it is very relevant to the Civ-fanatics audience. While it’s a bit early in the year for such a preview, it is certainly worth a watch (despite the annoying issues with the voice-over) if you have time to play anything else besides Civ, Old World and… Read More »
Our moderator bite, also known as Brian MacNamara or TL;DR Reviews, has updated his ultimate civilization map: The final map now contains really all known features of Civilization 6, nations, natural wonders, world wonders, everything. The latest update now includes everything from the Khmer and Portugese. If you want to read everything about the latest map, or want… Read More »
Amplitude has given a status update on the October patch for Humankind. They expect the release of the next patch on October 28. They have already fixed many potential crashes, are working on fixing more issues, also in multiplayer, and hope that they can get out the Mac version soon. Read the full update here: https://www.games2gether.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/blogs/784 Discuss this… Read More »
A reddit user has made some really interesting Civ6 pixel art, in a style of a beat-em-up. Have a look at the original reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/pruvri/i_made_pixel_art_versions_of_a_few_characters_in/
Soren Johnson has again published a blog post about the development work in Old World, this time about the end of the game. He describes the thoughts which went into the ambition system, the relationship to a role-playing AI, and how to make each game more dynamic and unique. An excerpt: “Of course, one might ask, wouldn’t the… Read More »