Even in 2025 we continue to provide you a new Civ4 challenge each month! If you want to compete this month for the crown of best Civ4 player, then we want you to play the following game: You play as Bisma…. Weihnachtsman from the magical kingdom on a cold standard size Earth2 map on Monarch difficulty. The deadline… Read More »
The whole title doesn’t fit into the name of the thread, but it’s “Civilization 7 senior historian prays it’ll be a ‘gateway drug’ into textbooks: ‘I teach undergraduates in my other life, and my God, man, they don’t read’”.Our Firaxis forum resident @Andrew Johnson [FXS] told us about it, and he’s also the name-giving historian.For most of our… Read More »
Our eternal Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 9 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Tiny, Marathon, Emperor, Space Colony game for 539,238 points. nocho and fizbankovi were the most active players during this update, submitting 2 games each. Only one player… Read More »
We also start the new year of 2025 with a new challenge for you to play! In this Civ6 GOTM you play Yongle of China on a standard size hot and wet Continents & Islands map with low sea level on Prince difficulty. You get a legendary start, Barbarian Clans, Monopolies & Corporations, and you need to use… Read More »
The Baltimore Banner, a news website dedicated to Baltimore, has just before Christmas ran a title called “How Baltimore County became a hidden world of video game companies“.As many of you know, Baltimore is the home to our most important gaming studio, Firaxis, but not only that. Its predecessor, Microprose, responsible for Civ1+2 was also situated in Baltimore,… Read More »
GamesRadar has today published an article called “Civ 5 caused a commotion at a space agency its creative director used to work at“.It seems that Ed Beach had worked as a contractor for the NASA, working at the Hubble Space telescope.It seems that the institute who’s dealing with the telescope is sitting in Baltimore, where also Firaxis is,… Read More »
Firaxis has released another short video, this time about one of the natural wonders, the Redwood Foreset. The ingame wonder reaches over 3 tiles, and will give quite some massive yield gain. Check out our discussion here.
Firaxis has posted holiday greetings over on Twitter, and now we wonder if there is something maybe hidden in the picture ;). If you want to join in on the greetings, or deeply analyze the picture, then join us here.