The four-hundred-and-sixth episode of PolyCast, “It’s A Lot Better Than Watergate“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News00h02m25s | Twitter Post Sparks Beyond Earth 2 Rumors00h12m39s | xBox Patch for Civilization VI Released00h16m04s | Vote for Civilization 1 and 2 for… Read More »
As a civ-fanatic you might, like us, live a bit in constant pain, because you simply cannot buy Civ1 and Civ2 anymore :(. The reasons are probably complicated, and related to a not-so-easy licensing situation after Microprose was bought. But as you know, you can buy Colonization on GOG, so it must be possible. If just Firaxis and… Read More »
Our user blake00 has finished his heroic effort to collect all the Civ2 MGE scenarios. As you can imagine, this was no easy task. He searched the internet for endless hours, to provide the civfanatics with all the playing material out there. But now he has finished it! He has uploaded the grand amount of 378 scenarios plus… Read More »
As it was promised 2 weeks ago, the Civilization Twitter account has made a video with all the best birthday wishes for Sid. You can find this video here on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CivGame/status/1496915329984843814 Happy Birthday, Sid Meier! 🥳🎂 Enjoy this special message from the best fans in gaming. pic.twitter.com/K9OswLKKV7— Sid Meier’s Civilization (@CivGame) February 24, 2022 Discuss this video… Read More »
Shacknews has published their 2021 Hall of Fame, which includes games, companies, and also people. One of the most important ones, obviously, Sid Meier! https://www.shacknews.com/article/128105/shacknews-hall-of-fame?page=8#detail-view“Millions of players know Sid Meier as the father of the Sid Meier’s Civilization series of turn-based strategy games. That only makes sense: His name is in the title. But Meier started on a… Read More »
And we’re still going strong on celebrating Civ’s past! Especially our user Blake00 has been extremely active, and has undertaken a massive project: He’s hunting through the net, our threads, and everywhere else possible to preserve all the great Civ2 mods, and make them available again. He has already uploaded more than 200 Civ2 mods from all the… Read More »
Thomasz Zych, or Titos2k on Twitter https://twitter.com/titos2k , has drawn all the Civ2 units in a very nice style. He has uploaded them to his website, https://rysownik.com/illustration/civilization-2-units/ , and you can find a high-res version of the drawings also here https://rysownik.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/fullset-2.png . He has also published an article on medium about his experience drawing these units. Read it… Read More »
The three hundred-and-ninety-second episode of PolyCast, “The Good Old Days“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h02m00s | Firaxis’s 30 Year Anniversary Video– 00h03m38s | The New Yorker Review of Sid Meier’s Memoirs! Forum Talk– 00h11m01s | Unpopular… Read More »