TurnBasedFest on Steam, until April 8

By | April 5, 2024

The fellows from TurnBasedThursday have organized a Steam special, dedicated to turnbased games.The overview page lists what is all included in this sale.Among many games, the following are in my opinion especially interesting to the CivFanatics: Various games are also on sale in bundles, so make sure to have a look at the overview page! Are you buying… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #242

By | April 4, 2024

And we continue the Civ5 GOTM series also in April. This time you play as Gajah Mada of Indonesia on a standard size donut map on Warlord level. You need to win via a culture victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving another victory! You have until May 1 to complete this GOTM. For all details, please… Read More »

Forbes: The 8 Top Strategy Video Games

By | April 3, 2024

The bussiness magazin seems to have strayed a bit away from serious bussiness, and has published an artilce about the Top 8 strategy games out there. The selection is a bit random, including Football Manager and Starcraft II, but is topped by one of our favourite titles, Civ6. An excerpt: Civilization is perhaps the most iconic strategy game… Read More »

Play the new Civ3 “Game Of The Month”

By | April 2, 2024

For the Easter Civ3 GOTM you play as queen Elizabeth of the English on a normal size archipelago map with raging barbarians on Monarch level. There is a special rule for this GOTM, all harbours for all civs are half price, so that it is easier to conquer the seas! As usual for the Civ3 GOTM you get… Read More »

April Fools’: 2K buys Paradox, Millennia is the “next civ game in development”

By | April 1, 2024

Breaking news!According to latest news, as reported by Kotaku, PCGames, and others, 2K has announced that it is buying Paradox Games, and that the next part of the Civ series is actually the just released Millennia.The articles say that 2K has been actively looking into expanding their portfolio (as also shown last week’s purchase of Gearbox), and given… Read More »

Ara: History Untold: Dev Diary, Ep. 18 – Scouts

By | March 27, 2024

And we are now at the 16th dev diary for Ara: History Untold.This time the devs talk about scouts and exploration. They are apparently busy with finishing the game, the dev diaries are therefore a bit shorter. This dev diary also tells us mostly some of what you expect, that there is wildlife, that you can find resources,… Read More »

Millennia released!

By | March 26, 2024

The new history-themed game developed by Paradox, Millennia, has been released today. We made a whole forum for this game, and you might want to check out the following threads: We are looking forward to many interesting discussions.

New indie game release: LakeSide

By | March 26, 2024

This game has been in development and alpha-stage for a while, as you can see by the above video by GamerZakh, which is now 2 years old. But today it has been released, so it’s worth a thread!This game is a side scrolling city builder, which I am not sure is a usual thing. Instead of looking down… Read More »