The title is giving it fully away: Shacknews has crowned Civ7 to be their best strategy title of 2025.It managed to beat the latest Commandos title and Final Fantasy Tactics among others.The Shacknews team appreciated the changing civs (yes, they did) and the new strategies it allows, the navigable rivers and the removal of workers.At the end, Civ7… Read More »
2K has currently a winter sale, which includes big discounts for Civ4, Civ5, Civ:BE, Civ6 and Civ7! This also includes the Civ7 DLCs (besides Tides Of Power, which is currently free). For people who already have all the civ games, there are also discounts for Marvel Midnight Suns, as well as XCOM 1 and 2 (among other, less… Read More »
During this year’s CivGive, history student and civ streamer Paisley_Trees was interviewing Firaxis historian Andrew Johnson. They talk about what their Civ7 strategy is (historic roleplaying…or not), why Oxford is not a medieval wonder, the current view on the beginning of human civilization, the complications with the languages in Civ, and a lot more. Watch the video, and… Read More »
And it’s time for the special December “Game Of The Month”, called the “Krampus” edition. This is again a challenge for you, but with some more spiced-up requirements. The basics are that you play Machiavelli of Aksum on a huge Archipelago map on Deity level. The disaster intensity is catastrophic, and the independents are hostile. As special requirements… Read More »
Today we got the latest Civ7 update! Patch 1.3.1 comes with a new map type, Shattered Seas, better biome generation, rebalancing, bugfixes in the AI, UI changes and a lot more. The second part of the “Tides Of Power” DLC has also been released, and it’s still free until January 5. You can now (finally) play as the… Read More »
Sara came by today for again some news, and this time also the most exciting one: We can expect the update, and also the second part of the “Tides Of Power” DLC tomorrow! This all will come with another map type, Shattered Seas, better biome generation, some rebalancing and a lot more. Stay tuned for tomorrow, and check… Read More »
Sara also gave us today some more info about the upcoming second part of the “Tides Of Power” DLC, this time introducing Iceland as a civ. Iceland is a cultural and militaristic civ with a starting bias for coastal tiles as well as tundra and grassland. Their abilities and civic tree are geared towards an interesting combo of… Read More »
Sara also gave us today again good Civ7 news, by introducing us to the next civ which we’ll get via the “Tides Of Power” DLC, the long expected and wanted Ottomans! The are a militaristic and cultural civilization, which Firaxis has geared towards siege warfare and a big empire. The unique unit is obviously the Janissary, but we… Read More »