Category Archives: 30 years Civilization

Civilizationโ€™s 30th birthday: Play the Civ1 scenarios!

By | October 27, 2021

Most people are aware of the extensive modding capabilities which there are in Civ. Starting from Civ2 we had great scenarios, space and fantasy mods, everything what you can imagine. But did you know that you could already mod Civ1? Our user blake has made a compilation of the available mods and scenarios for Civ1. He uploaded 11โ€ฆ Read More »

Civilizationโ€™s 30th birthday: The winning poems #4

By | October 23, 2021

In addition to the 3 main prizes, we also had an additional poetry prize for our 30 years celebration. We unexpectedly got many excellent poetry submissions, which made this one picking harder. We selected the poem by our user Romegypt, who receives a rare Civilization 4 deluxe version and a merchandise package. His contribution exquisetly highlights the complicationsโ€ฆ Read More »

Civilizationโ€™s 30th birthday: The winning poems #3

By | October 22, 2021

We picked recently our winners of the birthday contest for Civilization, who all received a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a merchandise package. We now want to use this place to highlight these poems. The third poem has been submitted by our user MasterOaks, and is a very philosophical piece about theโ€ฆ Read More »

Civilizationโ€™s 30th birthday: The winning poems #2

By | October 21, 2021

We picked recently our winners of the birthday contest for Civilization, who all received a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a merchandise package. We now want to use this place to highlight these poems. The second poem, which are actually multiple senryus, have been submitted by our user Hinin, and show usโ€ฆ Read More »

Civilizationโ€™s 30th birthday: The winning poems #1

By | October 20, 2021

We picked recently our winners of the birthday contest for Civilization, who all received a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a merchandise package. We now want to use this place to highlight these poems. The first poem has been submitted by our user topsecret. It definitely captures the Civ atmosphere. “One day,โ€ฆ Read More »

Civilizationโ€™s 30th birthday: The winners

By | October 19, 2021

After a long time discussing the entries of the birthday contest, our team has finally decided about the best presents our users have given to Civ. The 3 main prizes, a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a Civ merchandise package, goes to our users topsecret, Hinin and MasterOaks. The prize for bestโ€ฆ Read More »

PolyCast 392: The Good Old Days

By | October 18, 2021

The three hundred-and-ninety-second episode of PolyCast, โ€œThe Good Old Daysโ€œ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie โ€œMakahluaโ€, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h02m00s | Firaxisโ€™s 30 Year Anniversary Video– 00h03m38s | The New Yorker Review of Sid Meierโ€™s Memoirs! Forum Talk– 00h11m01s | Unpopularโ€ฆ Read More »

Video: Civilization 2 on the PS1

By | October 4, 2021

Sean Seanson has produced a video for the youtube channel of PotatoMcWhiskey, showcasing the Civilization 2 port on the PS1. The Civ2 version definitely looks like an improvement over the Civ1 version on the PS1, especially given that it is available in English. As the Civ1 version, the Civ2 version looks considerably different.If you’ve never seen either, haveโ€ฆ Read More »