Category Archives: Alpha Centauri

PolyCast 414: Nerve Staplers are NOT Still In Vogue

By | May 18, 2023
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The four-hundred-and-fourteenth episode of PolyCast, “Nerve Staplers are NOT Still in Vogue“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus. Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and  Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: Intro– 00h01m47s | What Tech or Wonder Quotes Would You Like to See? News– 00h04m45s |  Leader Pack 3: Rulers of China Announced for Jan 19.– 00h10m45s |  Turn-Based Lovers Posts A New Review for… Read More »

Racing the Darkness: A Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri Fan Fiction Photoessay

By | April 3, 2023
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Anyone who played Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri back in the day probably remembers the excitement they felt when they first landed on planet, not knowing anything about what laid beyond the shroud of darkness on this strange alien world, different to anything they’d seen before on Earth. While constructing your first base you ventured out into the darkness… Read More »

Play the old Alpha Centauri “Game Of The Month” games!

By | March 2, 2023
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The “Game Of The Month” has a tradition in the Civ series, which even goes beyond it: Alpha Centauri once also had a “Game Of The Month” (GOTM)! Buster’s Uncle, the admin of AlphaCentauri2.info has been so kind to collect all of these savegames and their descriptions, and has uploaded them here to our Alpha Centauri scenario thread… Read More »

RockPaperShotgun: These are your 50 favourite strategy games of all time (with Civ1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and Alpha Centauri)

By | February 23, 2023
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RockPaperShotgun has published an article about the 50 favourite strategy games of all time, as voted by the community. As a community vote, there was no collapsing of a series to a single title, so Civ made it into the list with 5 titles (1, 2, 4, 5, 6), as well as Alpha Centauri. We wonder though how… Read More »

SMACivilization – A CivII graphic retrofit project on the SMAX engine

By | February 7, 2023
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We know, many people really, really want a new Alpha Centauri. Many people also would like to see Civilization II available. Now, what would happen if you made a cross-over of this? Our user Buster’s Uncle, the owner of AlphaCentauri2.info, has taken up the challenge to convert Alpha Centauri into a Civ2-like setting, with all its graphics, rules,… Read More »

PolyCast 411: We Left the Ladder In, Right?

By | February 1, 2023
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The four-hundred-and-eleventh episode of PolyCast, “We Left the Ladder In, Right?“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan” with guest co-host TheChrisD. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h01m56s | Solium Infernum, A Turn-Based Strategy Game in Hell– 00h09m40s | From Alpha Centauri to Beyond EarthForum… Read More »

GLSMAC – An “Alpha Centauri” remaster in the making

By | January 22, 2023
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Do you like the old “Alpha Centauri”, but think it is too outdated, and would need a revamp? Our user nj666 has taken up this task, and started to re-implement the basic functions, with the goal to update the multiplayer, the graphics, and other features in the future. His project is right now in a very early phase,… Read More »

TurnBasedLovers: Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri – Review

By | January 2, 2023
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TurnBasedLovers have taken again a look at one of our beloved classics, Alpha Centauri, and have written now 23 years after its release another review.They praise the philosophical depth of the story and the versatility of the overall gameplay with all its choices. And as expected, from today’s point of view (and also back at the time) the… Read More »