Category Archives: Civilization VI

Civ6 related news items

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month”

By | January 2, 2022

Right before we went into the holidays, the Civ6 team has prepared you another GOTM, so that your holidays don’t have to be calm and peaceful ;). For this GOTM you play Mansa Musa of Mali on a standard size inland sea map on Deity level. You have until January 25 to finish this game. You can find… Read More »

PolyCast 395: Nobody Wants Your Stupid Launcher

By | December 28, 2021

The three hundred-and-ninety-fifth episode of PolyCast, “Nobody Wants Your Stupid Launcher“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h01m39s | 2K’s Launcher Updates, Players Yawn– 00h09m02s | #TheCivGive2021 Forum Talk– 00h18m38s | TurnBasedLover’s Top 10 4X Games of All… Read More »

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #125

By | December 21, 2021

The new “Game Of The Month” for Civ6 is available again. If you feel like conquering the world over Christmas, here is your challenge: This time you play as Catherine de Medici of France on a standard size lake map on Immortal difficulty. You have until January 15 to complete this game. You can find all the details,… Read More »

TheCivGive2021 raises $42 000 for children’s hospitals, 2K will match $25 000

By | December 20, 2021

In an exciting stream yesterday the streamers involved in TheCivGive2021 managed to raise in total more than $42 000 for children’s hospitals, supporting the ExtraLife foundation. This included more than one private donation of over $2000! The 2K foundation had also pledged to match up to $25 000, which was reached way before the stream reached its middle.… Read More »

TheCivGive2021: Join us, watch the stream (Dec 19, 12 PM PST/3 PM EST/9 PM CET)

By | December 18, 2021

It is happening today! The final of TheCivGive2021! All the streamers listed in the picture banded together to raise $50 000 to support children’s hospitals. Currently the count is at more than $18 000, and 2K themselves, the publisher of the Civilization series, has pledged to match up to $25 000. So we need to raise less than… Read More »

Firaxis wishes you happy holidays

By | December 17, 2021

The CivGame Twitter account has posted the above artwork, and it looks magnificent! Leave your comments here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/firaxis-wishes-you-happy-holidays.674585/

TheCivGive2021: Now with guest appearances of the developers!

By | December 15, 2021

There are more interesting developments happening for TheCivGive2021! Not only that 2K has announced to match up to $25 000 in donations for this charity drive for children’s hospitals, now the final live stream on December 19 will also have guest appearances of the developers! Kevin Schulz, our most loved community manager, has announced on Twitter that we… Read More »

PCGamesN: This US teacher uses Humankind and Civilization to teach world history

By | December 14, 2021

PCGamesN has just released an article about the educational uses of Civ and Humankind. They describe how a teacher uses both games in the classroom to teach, and uses TikTok further to go deeper in the topics. An excerpt: “In the normal classroom we go over the primary theme of each era. Then, in the gaming portion they… Read More »