Category Archives: Civilization IV

Civ4 related news items

Current sales: Civ4, Civ5, Civ6 and Millennia

By | August 28, 2024

There are currently various Steam sales going on, most likely due to the recent Civ7 info. Civ4 is currently discounted by 85%. Civ5 is currently discounted by 75%. Civ6 is currently discounted by 90%. Millennia is currently discounted by 50% (see also thread here).

Sullla’s AI Survivor Season Eight – Playoff Game 1

By | August 26, 2024

AI Survivor is an annual competition of all Civilization IV AI Leaders by long-time Civilization enthusiast and streamer Sullla. Surprisingly, Brennus of The Celts won a very rare Diplomatic victory in Wildcard Game 2. In hindsight, the result was not that shocking considering the overwhelming presence of less peaceful leaders in this game. Regardless, Brennus is not renowned… Read More »

Sullla’s AI Survivor Season Eight – Wildcard Game 2

By | August 22, 2024

AI Survivor is an annual competition of all Civilization IV AI Leaders by long-time Civilization enthusiast and streamer Sullla. In what I now call “The Year of the Peacemongers” Pericles of Greece won a space victory in Wildcard Game 1. Pericles is the sole leader to advance to the Playoffs from this matchup. The only true warmonger on… Read More »

PolyCast 437: Starting to Get Rolling

By | August 19, 2024

The four-hundred-and-thirty-seventh episode of PolyCast, “Starting to Get Rolling“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h01m24s | August 20th Civilization VII Gameplay Reveal– 00h08m00s | Study the Past, Civs 4,5, and 6– 00h17m30s | July… Read More »

Sullla’s AI Survivor Season Eight – Wildcard Game 1

By | August 12, 2024

AI Survivor is an annual competition of all Civilization IV AI Leaders by long-time Civilization enthusiast and streamer Sullla. We now enter the playoff phase of AI Survivor, starting with Wildcard Game 1. There will be two wildcard playoff games this season for the first time as enough leaders survived the early round that a second wildcard game… Read More »

Civ IV Hall of Fame Update

By | August 6, 2024

The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 41 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Duel, Marathon, Monarch, Space Colony game for 444,361 points. nocho also gained 9 top positions in the scoring. Lcpl Jack Jones was the most active player during this… Read More »

Polygon: How Civilization 4’s Christopher Tin became the first game composer to win a Grammy

By | August 5, 2024

Polygon has today posted an article about our most beloved composer, titled “How Civilization 4’s Christopher Tin became the first game composer to win a Grammy“.In the interview, the journalist is asking Christopher Tin about how he was inspired by Civ4’s opening menu, that orchestrating music for video games was still somthing rather new back in the day,… Read More »

Sullla’s AI Survivor Season Eight – Game 8

By | July 29, 2024

AI Survivor is an annual competition of all Civilization IV AI Leaders by long-time Civilization enthusiast and streamer Sullla. Game 7 saw Elizabeth “Lizzy” of England pull out an extremely shocking Domination victory. While Lizzy is not prone to winning in Survivor she is certainly geared toward being a pacifist. However, Lizzy simply out-teched everyone else and when… Read More »