And in the new year we also continue to task you with a new Civ5 challenge each month! This time the team has prepared the following: We want you to play as Washington on a standard size Fractal map on Deity difficulty. You must win this game with a culture victory, and you got as usual one month… Read More »
If you want to claim your place in the eternal Civ5 “Hall Of Fame” at CivFanatics, then now you got another chance! While we always accept your best-scoring game to be listed, we also like to give you specific challenges to tackle. This time we have these 2 for you: In the G-Major CLI we want you to… Read More »
The Baltimore Banner, a news website dedicated to Baltimore, has just before Christmas ran a title called “How Baltimore County became a hidden world of video game companies“.As many of you know, Baltimore is the home to our most important gaming studio, Firaxis, but not only that. Its predecessor, Microprose, responsible for Civ1+2 was also situated in Baltimore,… Read More »
GamesRadar has today published an article called “Civ 5 caused a commotion at a space agency its creative director used to work at“.It seems that Ed Beach had worked as a contractor for the NASA, working at the Hubble Space telescope.It seems that the institute who’s dealing with the telescope is sitting in Baltimore, where also Firaxis is,… Read More »
While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. For the G-Major CL we challenge you to play as Casimir III of Poland on a tiny “large islands” map on epic speed. You also need to play on King difficulty, and win a science victory.… Read More »
The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 25 games were accepted since the previous update, with the highest highscores ever achieved in Civ4! Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Small, Normal, Prince, Domination game for 440,603 points. valergrad was the most active player during this update, submitting 10 games.… Read More »
The “Game Of The Month” is our monthly competition for a high-score in a defined setting. This time we challenge you to play as Montezuma of the Aztecs on a standard size lakes map with raging barbarians on Deity level. You need to win via a science victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving another victory. The… Read More »
The Humble Bundle has again the Sid Meier collection on sale.This includes obviously our beloved Civ titles, from Civ3 to Civ6 (including DLCs and addons), with also Civ:BE (including Starships), followed by Sid Meier’s Pirates, Railroads, Ace Patrol and Pacific Sky.To ge the whole bundle with all the titles you only need to pay 16.62, which is a… Read More »