Civilization VI turns 10 with a new official lo-fi album
Firaxis is marking Civilization VI’s 10th anniversary with The Lofi Sessions: 12 newly arranged versions of the game’s civilization themes.
OpenCol takes apart Sid Meier’s Colonization — and finally fixes its water animation
A fan reverse-engineering project has disassembled Sid Meier’s Colonization for Windows and started patching the original game — including the river and coastline water animation MicroProse never finished, 30+ years on — plus a modern-OS runtime, documentation, asset tools and rescued fan maps.
AI agents take on OpenCiv3 – with AI commentators calling the game
Edgar Arakelyan’s OpenCiv3 plugin lets AI agents compete, negotiate, and play alongside humans—with live viewing, replays, and two AI commentators.
Civilization VII Update 1.5.0 Hotfix fixes late-game crashes and missing resources
Civilization VII’s new 1.5.0 hotfix focuses on stability, late-game crashes, missing Treasure and Factory Resources, multiplayer softlocks, and several True Start Location Earth issues. Switch versions are coming later.
Thunderfall’s New Game, Wonder Rails
A little detour from Civilization 🚂 I’ve been building Wonder Rails, a cozy model railway you can watch, ride, or drive in your browser. The first world is free – no download or account needed.
Civilization at 35: the whole series in two minutes
Happy Civtember, everyone! Sid Meier’s Civilization turns 35 this month. The first game came out in September 1991, and we’ve all been saying “just one more turn” ever since. To celebrate, we made a short video that covers the entire series, from a single settler in 4000 BC to Civilization VII, in about two minutes. This is an… Read More »
Civilization VI’s wonder movies rebuilt as full-length fan films
A fan project called WonderForge has rebuilt Civ6’s wonder construction movies as longer, scrubbable films — four are done, six more are in production, and the source is open under the MIT licence.
Civilization VII devs detail the upcoming True Start Location Earth map
Firaxis has detailed Civilization VII’s upcoming True Start Location Earth map: a Huge, hand-crafted world map with historical starts, navigable rivers, hand-placed resources, and random Natural Wonders. It arrives in free Update 1.5.0 during the week of September 14.