Our moderator Eagle Pursuit has extracted from the quarterly fiscal report of Take2 that Civ7 is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2025, so January until March. Please note that the report says Q4 2025, which refers to the fiscal year, and not to the calendar year. It does refer to the Q1 of the… Read More »
The four-hundred-and-thirty-sixth episode of PolyCast, “They Say Strategy is Dying“ 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– 00h01m22s | Study the Past by Firaxis: Civ 1, Civ 2, and Civ 3– 00h03m48s | OId World: Behind the Throne… Read More »
The Civilization III Hall of Fame has been updated. 12 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to BlackBetsy for the highest Firaxis score of the update with a Large Deity Cultural 100k game for 12696 points. Spoonwood was the most active player during this update, submitting 9 games. Only 1 player was brave enough to take… Read More »
Today the Firaxis community manager Sarah dropped by at CivFanatics to announce that the monthly challenges (similar to our “Game Of The Month”) are now finally available also to console players. You can already participate in the current challenge on PlayStation and XBox. Switch players will hopefully get the update tomorrow. Come join us here to discuss this… Read More »
The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 41 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Duel, Marathon, Monarch, Space Colony game for 444,361 points. nocho also gained 9 top positions in the scoring. Lcpl Jack Jones was the most active player during this… Read More »
Polygon has today posted an article about our most beloved composer, titled “How Civilization 4’s Christopher Tin became the first game composer to win a Grammy“.In the interview, the journalist is asking Christopher Tin about how he was inspired by Civ4’s opening menu, that orchestrating music for video games was still somthing rather new back in the day,… Read More »
For the Civ4 summer GOTM you get an epic, although very standard, challenge: You play as Gilgamesh of Sumeria (that is the “epic” part) on a standard size Global Highlands map on Noble level. You get until August 31 to dominate the mountains. For more information please check this thread.
The recent trend of live-service games and MMOs has lead to a worrying trend: Games get shut down, and nobody can play them anymore. With the Civ series, this has not been an issue, as all games are stand-alone, and you don’t need a server from Firaxis. But many other games have recently been shut down, and now… Read More »