Today Firaxis gave us the official guide to the Songhai, the last exploration age civ. The Songhai are an economic and militaristic civ, with a starting bias for navigable rivers, plains, coast and desert. Most of their unique featurs such as improvements and units feature the water/rivers and give boni if on or adjacent to it. Curious? Check… Read More »
The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 25 games were accepted since the previous update, with the highest highscores ever achieved in Civ4! Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Small, Normal, Prince, Domination game for 440,603 points. valergrad was the most active player during this update, submitting 10 games.… Read More »
Civ6 streamer and history PhD student Paisley_Trees has together with a colleague interviewed Andrew Johnson during the CivGive charity stream last Sunday.They discuss how they pick the civs in combination with making an interesting and balanced game, that they read the forums here (although that we need to discuss things earlier; although we had the right timing with… Read More »
The “Game Of The Month” is our monthly competition for a high-score in a defined setting. This time we challenge you to play as ptolemaic Cleopatra on a standard size hot and arid low-sea level wetlands map. You get abundant resources and a legendary start, but you are playing on Immortal level with a disaster intensity of 3.… Read More »
Also this year we are getting the CivGive, the Civ6 charity live stream, were streamers battle for world domination and also donations for a children’s charity. This year it will happen this Sunday, December 1, at 10 PM EST with the start of the game. Later there will be an interview with the charity, Gamers Outreach, a round… Read More »
The last update for Humankind is now available.The Enheduanna Update includes a long list of changes, including custom opponents, naval nuclear tests, a lot of rebalancing, more game settings, a new scenario, cloud saves an much more. You can find the full list of changes here.
After a lot of Civ7 news, we also got a bunch of Old World news at the same time! Steam has announced this year’s categories for the Steam Awards. We get in total 11 categories, for which you can vote for, until the Autumn Sale ends on December 4.If you are logged into your Steam account, then you… Read More »
SEGA is participating in this year’s autumn sale on Steam. They have many of the Total War titles on sale, including Pharao, which is right now available for 50% off at 19.99. Obviously a lot of the older titles are also cheaper, such as Rome 1/2, Medieval 2, Shogun 2 and a few more.You can find the overview… Read More »