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Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #225

By | July 15, 2023

Also for this “Game Of The Month” we give you a summer feeling with a nice beach scenario! You play as Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon on a standard size inland sea map on Deity level. You need to strive for a science victory, but at the same time you must prevent all other civs from reaching another victory. The… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #224

By | July 3, 2023

And for the June game of the Civ5 “Game Of The Month” we also get you a culture vacation. You play as Enrico Dandolo of Venice on a standard size pangaea map on Immortal level. You need to go for a culture victory, but all other victories are enabled, so you need to make sure that no AI… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #223

By | June 15, 2023

With this Civ5 “Game Of The Month” we’re giving you a vacation on a nice island during the sunny summer days! You play as Suleiman of the Ottomans on a standard-size islands map on Emperor level. You need to go for a domination victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving one of the other victories as well.… 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 5 Hall of Fame: New Gauntlets

By | June 7, 2023

The Civ5 “Hall of Fame” is an ongoing competition, but we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. The team now has published the next 2 challenges for you: G-Major CXXXIV We challenge you to play the following game: You need to play a King-level game with Pacal of the Maya on a small… Read More »

The Value Foundation: “Game Changers: Antiquity and Video Games”

By | June 4, 2023

The Value Foundation, a foundation dealing with history, video games, and education, has released a video where they discuss how various games have revolutionized game history. They talk about the concept of civilization, and how it appears in video games. Obviously they discuss our very favourite game, among others (e.g. Assassin’s Creed or Minecraft). They discuss that the… Read More »

Play the new Civilization 5 “Game Of The Month” #222

By | June 3, 2023

And also for June we got you a new Civ5 challenge! This “Game Of The Month” lets you play as Ramesses II of Egypt on a standard size pangaea map on quick speed. The difficulty is King level, and you need to achieve a culture victory, while preventing all other civs from achieving another victory too. You have… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #221

By | May 15, 2023

And we got again a new “Game Of The Month” for you! In this Civ5 GOTM you play as Wu Zetian on standard size oval map on Prince level. You have to go for a science victory, and must at the same time prevent all other civs from achieving another victory. You have until June 15 to lead… Read More »