Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #277

By | November 18, 2025

We start winter with another challenge for you. In this Civ5 “Game Of The Month” you play as Dido of Carthage on a small “large islands” map on Prince level. You must win via a domination victory, but all victories are enabled, meaning you must prevent other civs from e.g. winning a space or culture victory. The deadline… Read More »

The Game Awards: Civ7 nominated for best strategy game

By | November 17, 2025

With each new year, we also get a new version of The Game Awards.This year there will be awards given in 30 categories, and Civ7 has been nominated in the category “Best Sim/Strategy”.The nominees are the following: If you want to vote for Civ7, then please do that here, and join us for the discussion here.

Alpha Centauri: University Base Film Series – Episode 3

By | November 16, 2025

We’ve got a new episode in the excellent shortfilm series by Ratimir Rakuljic titled ‘University Base’ retelling the story of University faction leader Prokhor Zakharov’s journey to Alpha Centauri that we’ve been sharing over the last few years since the 25th anniversary of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. In this episode Colonel Santiago makes her move and the mutiny… Read More »

Anno 117: Pax Romana released

By | November 13, 2025

In case someone ever wants to take a break from Civ, and have a look at one of the other amazing games out there, then today you got fodder: Anno 117: Pax Romana was released today (Steam, Epic). In the latest edition of this traditional city builder you get transporter further back in time, into the Roman Empire.… Read More »

Top 10 Highest-Grossing Turn-Based RPGs And Strategy Games of all time – Including Civ5+6

By | November 13, 2025

The good people over at TurnBasedLovers have put together a list of the highest grossing turn-based games, no matter if strategy or RPG.Unsurprisingly, this also does include some Civ titles, with Civ5 coming 4th, and Civ6 coming 2nd.The list claims that Civ5 brought in $179 million on Steam, and Civ6 $358 million on Steam.They guys put together the… Read More »

Civilization VII Update 1.3.0 – Patch 1

By | November 12, 2025

Firaxis has released a small patch to fix the most urgent bugs in patch 1.3.0. This includes that the AI will use less sanctions, produce GPs correctly, a range of stability improvements and other small fixes. For the complete list and discussion please check here.

Firaxis developer sale – 10% to 80% off on Firaxis games, until November 17

By | November 9, 2025

As the title says: Firaxis has currently a developer sale going on, and all their big titles are on sale (exception: Alpha Centauri, which is not on sale).This includes everything from Civ3 to Civ7, with the excepton of some of the Civ6 DLCs.Civ7 is currently 35% off, Civ6 and DLCs between 25 and 50%, and the rest of… Read More »

Civ7 Sneak Peek: Iceland and Ottomans

By | November 5, 2025

Our user sonicmyst has dug around in the latest “Tides Of Power” DLC for Civ7, and has noticed that the info for Iceland and the Ottomans is already available. You can see the info for Iceland here, for the Ottomans please check this thread.