New Civ6 monthly challenge: Live Yongle Reaction

By | July 17, 2024

It seems the recent announcement of Civ7 has not stopped the new challenges!The new Civ6 monthly challenge, going from July 16 until August 14 is: Live Yongle Reaction. You play as the one and only, obviously, on a tiny fractal map on online speed. As usual you get to choose between Prince and Emperor difficulty, and also between… Read More »

Tacticon 2024: The schedule

By | July 16, 2024

The Tacticon is a virtual convention about strategy games, and now this year’s schedule is known! Every civ-fanatic should be interested in the talk on Friday about historical accuracy in strategy games!The talk about procedural generation might be interesting as well, given that’s essentially how the civ maps are generated.For the game showcases, Reus 2, a god game… Read More »

Study The Past – a Civilization series retrospective (Civ 5)

By | July 15, 2024

The official Civilization Twitter account has published the 5th video in the Civ retrospective series, this time looking at Civilization 5. In this video they highlight the change from square to hexagons, that leaders speak their native language, great works and archeology, and some very important trade agreement. Join us for the discussion here.

Tacticon 2024, July 18-22

By | July 12, 2024

The Tacticon is a virtual convention about strategy games, organized by the independent publishers FireSquid Games and HoodedHorse, and therefore should contain some things, which are also interesting for us.This year the convention will happen from July 18 to July 22. The lineup normally consists out of various talks, new demos, and some sales, obviously.The list of games… Read More »

PolyCast 433: Fringe Theories

By | July 11, 2024

The four-hundred-and-thirty-third episode of PolyCast, “Fringe Theories“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h01m38s | Call to Power’s 25th Anniversary– 00h11m43s | Real Life as a 4X Simulator?ModCast– 00h28m37s | Quality of Life Mods for Civilization VIForum… Read More »

Study The Past – a Civilization series retrospective (Civ 4)

By | July 10, 2024

The official Civilization Twitter account has published the 4th video in the Civ retrospective series, this time looking at Civilization 4. In this video they highlight the new 3D graphics, great people, the religion system, and the song we all love so much that it got a Grammy, Baba Yetu. Join us for the discussion here.

FreeCol v1.2.0 released!​

By | July 7, 2024

A new version of FreeCol, the open source version of Colonization, has been released! The FreeCol Devs have also posted a big new release across the Sid Meier’s Colonization fans Discord, Reddit & Facebook groups, in case you are active on these sites. This release features a new Colony panel with improved building graphics. In addition, there are… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 Gauntlets!

By | July 7, 2024

The Civilization 5 “Hall Of Fame” is an ongoing competition, to gain the highest rank among all civ-fanatics for the various difficulty levels, map settings, etc. While you are always free to submit your latest wins, we also sometimes give you new challenges, the gauntlets. It is again the time for them, so we get 2 new challenges… Read More »