Our user ninjaboy42099 is a big fan of the old Civilization: Call To Power, and has decided to set up a website with all the mods for it. He has only uploaded some yet, but he is busy searching the net for more mods to add to it. The available downloads are from both CtP1 and 2, and… Read More »
The guys from GamingOnLinux have a series which started with building a retro computer for gaming on Linux, and in the meantime they’re at part 50. After building their machine, they’re now looking at various old games, and it turns out that “Civilization: Call to Power” was maybe the first commercially sold computer game for Linux. The author… Read More »
Time flies, when you’re playing civ, and the same applies when you are browsing the forums! Today is one of the days which can be considered the birthday of Civfanatics, and we turn 25, which is in the age of the internet nearly biblical. For this occasion we have written a retrospective, which hopefully includes the most interesting… Read More »
The guys over at Apolyton are also hardcore civ fans, and some have kept on working at their community mod for Call To Power 2. This is the first release for quite some time, and they added quite some bug fixes and other small changes to the game. If you’re playing CtP2, then definitely have a look at… Read More »
The four-hundred-and-thirty-third episode of PolyCast, “Fringe Theories“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h01m38s | Call to Power’s 25th Anniversary– 00h11m43s | Real Life as a 4X Simulator?ModCast– 00h28m37s | Quality of Life Mods for Civilization VIForum… Read More »
As it turns out, the “Call To Power” series has turned 25 this month. Right for this occasion an upscaled version of the wonder videos has been released (discuss here), and our moderator blake00 decided to make an overview for all the fans. If you want to find out where to buy “Call To Power”, where to find… Read More »
Other than the occasional tinkering with the Apolyton Edition of Call To Power 2 there’s not many CTP fan projects still going these days. However long time Civ community member Kull has been working over the last year or so on making the popular Cradle 3+ mods compatible with the Apolyton Edition of CTP2 while also making a… Read More »
The Value Foundation, https://value-foundation.org/, a foundation associated with Leiden University, the Netherlands, will be streaming Civ3 regularly on Tuesday evenings, 21h CET (3 PM East Coast, Noon Pacific time). They do research on games and history, and have already last year regularly (Tuesday evenings) streamed Civ2, seems this year they’ll be playing Civ3.The announcement is here on Twitter,… Read More »
