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IGN: Civilization’s Past and Future, As Told By Its Lead Designers

By | January 30, 2022

IGN has just published an interview with some of the most important people in Civ history: Soren Johnson, Jon Shafer, Ed Beach and Anton Strenger, who each gave a bit of new direction for Civ.They talk in the interview about how they started with Civ, their most-liked additions to Civ, and how they see Civ in the whole… Read More »

GOG Chinese New Year sales: Civ3+4 on sale

By | January 30, 2022

GOG is having a sale for the Chinese new year, and obviously some of our most beloved titles are on sale! The most important are: Civilization 3 for 1.29€ Civilization 4 complete for 5€ The Original Colonization for 1.59€ Alpha Centauri for 1.39€ Call To Power 2 for 3.49€ The new years sale is very big, and many… Read More »

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #229

By | January 16, 2022

And it’s again time for the Civ4 “Game Of The Month”, where you can show that you’re better at civ than everyone else! This time you play as Ragnar of the Vikings on a standard size fractal map on deity level with 6 other AIs. As a small bonus, you start also with a workboat! You have until… Read More »

Civ6 Steam sale: 85% off

By | January 14, 2022

Steam currently has Civ6 discounted up to 85%, only costing 8.99€ for the base game. Both expansions (but not the other DLCs) are discounted as well down to 9.99€ and 9.89€. Get them before the sale expires on January 26! At the same time Civ4 is also discounted, costing only 2.99€, although both expansions are sadly not on… Read More »

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #228

By | January 4, 2022

New year, new “Game Of The Month”! The team has again put something together to challenge you directly at the beginning of the year! This time you play as Hammurabi on a standard size fractal map on Noble level. You have until February 3 to finish this game. All details can be found here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-botm-228-hammurabi-noble-starts-3-jan.674742/

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” 227

By | December 22, 2021

And it’s again time for the Civ4 “Game Of The Month”, so that you all have something to play over Christmas! This time you play as Kublai Khan of the Mongols on a standard size earth2 map on Immortal level. You have until January 24 to finish this game. All details can be found in this thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-botm-227-kublai-khan-immortal-starts-dec-20.674576/

GOG Winter Sale

By | December 14, 2021

GOG’s Winter Sale is on until January 5! This sale contains many items, which are interesting for us Civilization players, with the most interesting being: Civ3 for 1.29€ Civ4 (including Civ4: Colonization) for 5€ Alpha Centauri for 1.39€ Call To Power 2 for 3.49€ Colonization for 1.49€ Various other games of interest for the turn-based, 4X and strategy… Read More »

Old World: Interview with Soren Johnson

By | December 13, 2021

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released a podcast interviewing Soren Johnson. Soren is the lead designer of Old World, as well as Civ4, so this interview should be intersting ;). You can find the podcast here: https://mohawkgames.com/podcasts/interview-with-soren-johnson-design-director/ We have a thread in our forum for the podcast here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/podcast-interview-with-soren-johnson.674526/