While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. For december we got again two new ones, one major, one minor: For the G-Major CXXXIX, you need to play as Harald of Denmark on a small shuffle map on Immortal level, and you need to… Read More »
The CivGive is a charity event, organized by various Streamers around TheCivShow. In 2021 the team managed to raise $42 000 for extralife, and $25 000 were matched by 2K Games, in 2022 the aim was $75 000, which was nearly reached. So this year, it is time again: On December 17 is the big, big, big live… Read More »
And we are now at the 12th dev diary for Ara: History Untold.In this episode the devs talk about the crafting system in Ara. The system will allow you to have advanced resources, which will impact your economy, and are also necessary to equip your soldiers. This system is apparently more extensive than what we know from Civ… Read More »
Fresh news from IGN, discuss with us here. The summary of the news article is that an already existing mobile game called “Conquests and Alliances”, a mobile 4X game, is being re-branded as “Civilization: Eras & Allies”. This does not affect the main work on the next Civilization title, which by a Firaxis spokesperson is explicitely not called… Read More »
And obviously we also have a new Civ5 GOTM! This time you play as Ahmad Al-Mansur of Morocco on a standard size fractal map on Emperor level. You need to win via a science victory, but you also most prevent all other civs from achieving another type of victory. See if you can get to the Islaminc Golden… Read More »
The Value Foundation, an academic research foundation focusing on research on gaming, has posted on Twitter that 2 researchers from Leiden University have published a new research manuscript about Civilization! The research is featured in the journal of digital games and associated phenomena (DIGRA), and titled “On Being Stuck in Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Promise of Freedom in… Read More »
For our Civ6 “Game Of The Month” we are setting a christmas-y theme! You play as Victoria (Age Of Steam) on a hot and arid standard size Seven Seas map on King level. You have abundant resources, a legendary start, and you play with monopolies and corporations. The science victory is a must, and it will definitely show… Read More »
We got another developer diary from the new Paradox game Millennia!This time the diary is about the economy in the game. The devs explain that many things are managed on a regional level, similar to the cities of civ, like food and health, whereas others are managed more on a global level. In total where will be 130… Read More »