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 »
Tacticon starts tomorrow, and we have an interesting schedule. Besides the sales, the talks about the random number generator in strategy games, as well as the music, are of special interest for the civ community. Sales (starting probably tomorrow) can be found here https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TactiCon , as well as the streams.All streams will be later available on youtube, and… Read More »
Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things like bugfixes, a new desert map scripts, as well as AI and memory improvements. Discuss this update with us here. Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.
A new version of FreeCol, the free and open source interpretation of Colonization, has been released! This new version includes new music tracks, new hill and mountain graphics, reduced computation time for the AI, and many more things! Download the new version here, and discuss it with us here!
