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PolyCast 400: All’s Fair In Love and Civilization

By CanusAlbinus | August 15, 2022

The four-hundredth episode of PolyCast, “All’s Fair In Love and Civilization“ is now available for streaming on https://thepolycast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: Community 00h01m55s | PolyCast’s 400th Show Retrospective News 00h29m01s | Soren Johnson Talks About Diplomacy in Civilization III Forum Talk 00h41m03s | Is Civilization VI Worth Playing in 2022?00h46m40s | Is Civilization V Worth… Read More »

PolyCast 399: We Play Other Games, Too

By CanusAlbinus | August 12, 2022

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The three hundred-and-ninety-ninth episode of PolyCast, “We Play Other Games, Too“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News00h02m11s | Always Online Vulnerability: The Dark Souls Remote Execution Exploit and Civilization00h08m38s | Civilization IV Listed in The Games That Made Us Column.00h22m26s… Read More »

Play Unciv: A free Civ5 implementation for your phone (also desktop)

By The_J | August 10, 2022

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I know, we have Civ6 available on various consoles, and with FreeCiv and FreeCol there are also the old Civ games for you to play for free. But what about if you want to have a chilled game of Civ5 somewhere? If you didn’t know, you can also do that with UnCiv! UnCiv is a free and open… Read More »

PolyCast 398: Scouts Don’t Count as Military

By CanusAlbinus | August 8, 2022

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The three hundred-and-ninety-eighth episode of PolyCast, “Scouts Don’t Count as Military“ is now available for streaming on thepolycast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News00h02m11s | The 2K Launcher Updates Again and Disappoints Everyone00h09m41s | Civilization VI Works on Steam Deck?00h16m26s | 6 “New” Ways to… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #212

By The_J | July 16, 2022

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Do you think with this heat it is time for some holidays on the beach in Spain? Don’t go to far, and play the new Civ5 “Game Of the Month”! This time you play as Isabella of Spain on a tiny Inland Sea map on King level. You must go for a culture victory, and prevent all other… Read More »

Steam summer sale: Civ6 and more

By The_J | June 23, 2022

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Picture originally from Twitter. Current sales of the Civ franchise and related titles: Civilization 6: 85% down, from 59.99 to 8.99 This includes the Anthology edition, 86% down, from 209.85 to 29.22 and also the Platinum edition, 91% down, from 167.91 to 15 Civ6 Gathering Storm: 75% down, from 39.99 to 9.99 Civ6 Rise and Fall: 67% down,… Read More »

Kotaku: The Best Strategy Games On PC

By The_J | April 6, 2022

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Kotaku has compiled another list about the best strategy games out there. The list is full of titles, which shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, like Crusader King’s III, Total War: Shogun II and Age of Empires 2. And obviously a Civ title also made it on the list, here it is Civ5! The Civ5 excerpt from the… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #211

By The_J | March 2, 2022

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After a short break, we now have our Civ5 “Game Of The Month” back. This is thanks to our user zxcvbob, who volunteered to create this game! This time you play Pacal of the Maya on a standard-size Great Plains Plus map on Prince difficulty. You have to go for the diplomatic victory, and at the same time… Read More »