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Civ4 related news items

Techspot: A Chat With Video Game Composer Christopher Tin

By | July 4, 2023

Techspot has published an interview with Christopher Tin about his work, how he got to designing the music of Civ4, and how this has kick-started his career. In the interview he mentions that Civ was his dream job, with the right combination of elements which interest him, and that there is probably no other game he’d have liked… Read More »

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #253

By | June 30, 2023

And for sure we also supply you with another monthly game also for Civ4! This “Game Of The Month” is this time not summery-themed, but is rather a response to the community, who requested some smaller maps. Therefore you play this time as Churchill on a small fractal map on Emperor level against 4 AIs. In contrast to… 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 »

Civilization IV Hall Of Fame update

By | June 1, 2023

The Civ4 Hall Of Fame has again gotten an update! New players have been inaugurated in our everlasting Hall Of Civ Fame! You can find the whole overview in this thread! Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Tiny, Marathon, Noble, Space Colony game for 363,117 points. nocho was the most active player… Read More »

Civ IV HOF Update

By | May 5, 2023

The Civ4 Hall Of Fame has again gotten an update! New players have been inaugurated in our everlasting Hall Of Civ Fame! Congratulations to Peteyboy for the highest score of the update with a Small, Epic, Monarch, Domination game for 128,048 points. SittinDown was the most active player during this update, submitting 4 games. tsvyatkov was the most… Read More »

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #250

By | April 17, 2023

This GOTM has already started last month during Women’s History Month, so you’re playing as Boudica of the Celts. You may conquer other tribes on a small highlands map on Monarch level. You have until May 1 to defeat the other powerful women on this map, and the minor nations lead by men. For all other information please… 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 »

Christopher Tin scores #80 in the ClassicFM Hall of Fame 2023

By | April 10, 2023

The ClassicFM Hall Of Fame is a yearly public poll for the best classical music, and the Top 300 are played every Easter. Since 2013 also video game music has been included.This year, also our favourite composer had his entries nominated and voted in. Both his video game scores for Civ4 and Civ6 were included as a composite,… Read More »