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 »
Today the Firaxis community manager Sarah dropped by at CivFanatics to announce that the monthly challenges (similar to our “Game Of The Month”) are now finally available also to console players. You can already participate in the current challenge on PlayStation and XBox. Switch players will hopefully get the update tomorrow. Come join us here to discuss this… Read More »
For the Civ4 summer GOTM you get an epic, although very standard, challenge: You play as Gilgamesh of Sumeria (that is the “epic” part) on a standard size Global Highlands map on Noble level. You get until August 31 to dominate the mountains. For more information please check this thread.