Firaxis has given us a new Civ6 challenge, this time titled “Know Your Enemy”. You are playing as Wu Zetian along the Northern border of China, trying with Yongle and Qin Shi Huang to keep the Mongols out. This is a custom map with low sea level and sparse resources. You start in the medieval era, and can… Read More »
While the world is slowly moving to autumn, we’re keeping it hot in the GOTM! This time you play Mvemba a Nzinga of the Kongo on a hot standard size pangaea map with low sea level on Immortal difficulty. In addition, you also get a disaster intensity of 4. You need to win a culture of diplomacy victory,… Read More »
The four-hundred-and-thirty-eighth episode of PolyCast, “Something to Believe In [Part 1]“ 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– 00h01m43s | The Death of the 2K Launcher– 00h04m24s | August Challenge of the Month: Rotating Redux– 00h09m52s… Read More »
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).
The Firaxis community manager Gilgamesch has noted today in the forum that tomorrow (August 27), the Civ6 online services (presumably multiplayer and potentially mod workshop) will be shortly offline (2h). For more info please see this thread. EDIT: The downtime is over.
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 »
Firaxis’ community manager Sarah has brought us some interesting news today: The first is that for the Civ6 “Challenge Of The Month”, you will this time be getting each week a tweaked version of one of the previous challenges! This starts on August 14 with the “Seven Seas” challenge, but you get a permanent dark age, twice as… Read More »
The four-hundred-and-thirty-sixth episode of PolyCast, “They Say Strategy is Dying“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h01m22s | Study the Past by Firaxis: Civ 1, Civ 2, and Civ 3– 00h03m48s | OId World: Behind the Throne… Read More »