Category Archives: Civilization III

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Play the new Civ3 “Game Of The Month” #164 and 191

By | July 1, 2023

Also for Civ3 our team is dedicated to still give you a new “Game Of The Month”! For the addon “Play The World” you start as Julius Caesar on a normal size pangaea map, and the game is obviously played on Emperor level. To give you an edge on the roaming barbarians you get a Celtic slave, which… Read More »

TechSpot: 30 Years of Civilization – Over 51 Million Units Sold and a Billion Hours Played

By | June 12, 2023

TechSpot has today published an article about the last 30 years of Civilization (which should be 32 years…).In this article, the author goes through the history of the Civilization franchise, how the first people playtested Civ1 for hours, the addition of modding in Civ2, Baba Yetu, and many other things. The author also doesn’t forget all the other… Read More »

Play the new Civ3 “Game Of The Month” #163 and #190

By | April 24, 2023

Thanks to our Civ3 veterans we are also still running the “Game Of The Month” for Civ3! As usual, you get 2 GOTMs, one for the expansion “Play The World”, and one for “Conquests”. In the GOTM #190 for “Play The World” you play as Babylon on a standard size map on Monarch level. Everything is a secret,… Read More »

Soren Johnson’s GDC talk: Games and Meaning, or You Have No Idea How Hard It Is To Run a Sweatshop

By | April 16, 2023

Soren Johnson, the lead designer of Old World, as well as Civ4, has given a talk at the GDC, which is now freely available here.In this 1 hour presentation he talks about various game design issues, including that many decisions are mostly trial and error. He e.g. touches on that you need to know your community, otherwise you… Read More »

Streaming older Civs: Live streams for Civ3 and Civilization: Call To Power

By | February 22, 2023

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 »

Play the new Civ3 “Game Of The Month” #162+189

By | February 5, 2023

And also our Civ3 “Game Of The Month” is still going on! As usual, you get 2 different GOTMs, one for the “Conquests” expansion and one for the “Play The World” expansion. For the “Conquests” GOTM you play as queen Elisabeth of the English on an Archipelago map. The Pyramids have been replaced by Stonehenge, and you get… Read More »

GamesRadar: Jake Solomon on his journey from underqualified graphics programmer to master strategist

By | January 9, 2023

GamesRadar has published a news article about Jake Solomon, one of the pillars of Firaxis. Over his carreer he has worked on Civilzation 3, Civilization Revolution, the XCOM titles and the recently published Midnight Suns. Despite having been at Firaxis for ages, he describes himself not as a Civ guy. He worked closely with Sid Meier and Soren… Read More »

Humble Bundle: Sid Meier’s Ultimate Collection – available again

By | December 16, 2022

The Humble Bundle has made again the Sid Meier Bundle (repeat from February), containing a lot of our favourite games!If you pay at least 14.20€, you get The original Colonization Civ3 complete Civ4 complete Civ5 complete Civ: Beyond Earth – The Collection Sid Meier’s Starships Civ6 and all addons and DLC (besides the NFP) As other minor games… Read More »