We have already learned previously that Mark Zuckerberg is a big Civ fan (he does world domination… surprise …), but dexerto.com has published an article called “Mark Zuckerberg wants to start Twitch channel to stream his favorite game”.In the article he ponders about live streaming Civ, see this quote: “Priscilla looked at my Steam account the other day… Read More »
Today Firaxis did the live stream about Tecumseh and the Shawnee civ, which gave a lot of interesting background information. On the live stream Chief Barnes from the Shawnee was present, as well as a langauge specialist of the Shawnee nation. They talked about how Firaxis developed the Shawnee nation, and how cultural aspects got taken into account.… Read More »
Inspired by the recent success story of Manor Lords (after the trials and tribulations of it’s sole developer) the developer behind the abandoned Civ and Ara like 4X game called BOC: Birth of Cultures (formerly Birth of Civilizations) has decided to return to the project and is working with an interested publisher on finishing the game. The game… Read More »
Civilization 7 will come with a lot of graphical diversity, which is obvious from the scenes we have seen so far. Our member JNR13 has put together an overview over which antiquity buidlings we have seen so far, including their graphical variations. For a high-res version of the graphic, please check our thread here.
The Civ3 GOTM team has come up with new challenges for you for the quarterly Civ3 GOTM! In the GOTM for “Play The World”, you play as Tokugawa of the Japanese on a normal size continents map with a cool climate and sedentary barbarians. The difficulty level is deity. There are some custom rules in this game, as… Read More »
As the title says, Old World, as well as addons are currently 50% off. The main game costs 19.99, the whole bundle with addons for 47.19.This currently seems to be only the case in the Steam store, https://store.steampowered.com/app/597180/Old_World , but we are waiting for confirmation by the developers if this will also apply to GOG and the Epic… Read More »
Also today we got an article by APNews, called “Civilization 7 makers work with Shawnee to bring sincere representation of the tribe to the game“. In this article it is described how Firaxis approached the Shawnee about the inclusion of them in Civ7, and all the thoughts and challenges which this included. Which might have been also helped… Read More »
The Civ7 community manager Sara has passed by today to bring us the system specs for Civ7 (see the picture). The Mac and Steamdeck requirements will be revealed later. If you want to follow the discussion about what Civ7 needs, then join us in this thread. Update October 10: The specs have been revised, displayed are the new… Read More »