Time flies, when you’re playing civ, and the same applies when you are browsing the forums! Today is one of the days which can be considered the birthday of Civfanatics, and we turn 25, which is in the age of the internet nearly biblical. For this occasion we have written a retrospective, which hopefully includes the most interesting… Read More »
The Baltimore Banner, a news website dedicated to Baltimore, has just before Christmas ran a title called “How Baltimore County became a hidden world of video game companies“.As many of you know, Baltimore is the home to our most important gaming studio, Firaxis, but not only that. Its predecessor, Microprose, responsible for Civ1+2 was also situated in Baltimore,… Read More »
Firaxis has announced on Twitter that CivRev2 is not anymore listed in the Google play store.This means you cannot newly buy the game, but as long as it is installed you can still play it. Curiously this does not apply to the iOS app store, where it is still available. Discuss this announcement with us here.
The Value Foundation, an academic research foundation focusing on research on gaming, has posted on Twitter that 2 researchers from Leiden University have published a new research manuscript about Civilization! The research is featured in the journal of digital games and associated phenomena (DIGRA), and titled “On Being Stuck in Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Promise of Freedom in… Read More »
The Humble Bundle has made again the Sid Meier Bundle (repeat from last year), containing a lot of our favourite games!If you pay at least 14.20€, you get As other minor games included are the early games of Sid, Sid Meier’s Pirates, Sid Meier’s Railroads, Covert Action and the remakes of Ace Patrol, Sid Meier’s Ace Control and… Read More »
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 »
GamesRadar has published a news article about Jake Solomon, one of the pillars of Firaxis. Over his carreer he has worked on Civilzation 3, Civilization Revolution, the XCOM titles and the recently published Midnight Suns. Despite having been at Firaxis for ages, he describes himself not as a Civ guy. He worked closely with Sid Meier and Soren… Read More »