Category Archives: Civilization VII

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Civilization VII Dev Diary #7: Legends & Mementos

By | January 14, 2025

Firaxis has released another dev diary today, and they are talking about “legends & mementos”. Firaxis wants to make it more fun to play through any game of civ. In Civ5 and Civ6 this was helped by achievements. But for Civ7, the devs thought of more. You will be able to keep track of your whole progress over… Read More »

Civ7: Russia as a civ and Catherine the Great

By | January 13, 2025

Today Firaxis revealed the second last civilization and an associated leader: We are getting Russia and Catherine the Great. Russia is a cultural and scientific civ with a starting bias for tundra and furs. Russia has as UUs Cossacks and the Katyusha, and gets as their associated wonder the Hermitage. For more information have a look at the… Read More »

Civ7 update: France, Lafayette as a leader, and Steamdeck certified!

By | January 9, 2025

Firaxis has again shared some new and exciting news with us. We were well aware that France would be part of Civ7, and now we got all the details. The French Empire is a militaristic and diplomatic civ with a starting bias for wine (no joke). Their associated wonder is the Eiffel Tower, and one of their unique… Read More »

New civ7 civ guide, Qing, and dev diary #6 about diplomacy

By | January 8, 2025

Firaxis has started the new year with two new pieces of Civ7 info! As first, they have revealed the Civ guide for the Qing. Qing China is an economic and expansionist civ with a starting bias for Tundra. The Qing especially profit from imported goods, and having buildings and units stacked closely to each other will also give… Read More »

PCGamer: “Civilization 7 senior historian prays it’ll be a ‘gateway drug’ into textbooks”, and physical PCGamer article

By | January 5, 2025

The whole title doesn’t fit into the name of the thread, but it’s “Civilization 7 senior historian prays it’ll be a ‘gateway drug’ into textbooks: ‘I teach undergraduates in my other life, and my God, man, they don’t read’”.Our Firaxis forum resident @Andrew Johnson [FXS] told us about it, and he’s also the name-giving historian.For most of our… Read More »

The Baltimore Banner: How Baltimore County became a hidden world of video game companies

By | December 29, 2024

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 »

Civ7: Redwood Forest Natural Wonder video

By | December 21, 2024

Firaxis has released another short video, this time about one of the natural wonders, the Redwood Foreset. The ingame wonder reaches over 3 tiles, and will give quite some massive yield gain. Check out our discussion here.

Holiday greetings from Firaxis

By | December 20, 2024

Firaxis has posted holiday greetings over on Twitter, and now we wonder if there is something maybe hidden in the picture ;). If you want to join in on the greetings, or deeply analyze the picture, then join us here.