The current struggle in the techology sector also does not spare the gaming industry. Today it got public that Firaxis is laying off 30 of their developers. It is in general suspected that the poor sales of Midnight Suns are to blame, despite the game being a success among critics. We do not know right now which of… Read More »
As every month, you get a new “Game Of The Month”! This time you play as Nader Shah of Persia on a standard size continents map on deity level. For an additional challenge the disaster intensity is set to 2. You also need to go for a domination victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving one of… Read More »
We are all eagerly waiting for Civilization 7, so we cling to every piece of information we can get. Our moderator Eagle Pursuit has written down a short analysis of a recent fiscal report of Take2, and there is some chance that we will not get it before the middle of 2024. The fiscal report outlines various details,… Read More »
Today, Sega has announced the newest title in the Total War franchise, Total War: Pharaoh.Fans of the series will not be suprised: Total War: Pharaoh continues with everything what belongs to Total War, so a turn-based overview map and real-time battles. The game will have 8 playable factions, of which Egypt, the Hittites and Canaanites are already known.… Read More »
AI, in the form of image generators and large language models, are currently the hype. And ChatGPT has now also finally arrived for Civ fans! FCiv.net (an offshot of FreeCiv) has announced today that they have incorporated ChatGPT into their diplomacy engine. Will we now see leaders realistically talking too each other? Or an AI, which will end… Read More »
The Tacticon is over, and besides many sales, there were also many interesting talks! They are now also available on youtube, the playlist is here. Talks include, among others, “The Art of War: Applying philosophical principles to modern strategy games” (panel includes Soren Johnson) and “Heroes at war: the role of key characters in strategy games” (panel here… Read More »
And we got again a new “Game Of The Month” for you! In this Civ5 GOTM you play as Wu Zetian on standard size oval map on Prince level. You have to go for a science victory, and must at the same time prevent all other civs from achieving another victory. You have until June 15 to lead… Read More »
We just had a raffle for PocketCiv, which is a nice small civ-style game. We asked our users what they would like to have less in Civilization games, and then rolled the dice to determine the winner. Our user Kyriakos won one copy, requesting less internal stability in Civ nations. Our user chefofrats would like to see less… Read More »