The Polycast team is releasing some of their old episodes, which were not previously published due to circumstances with the editing. You can now download the PolyCast #420, which is from May 2023. The thread for this episode is here. The four-hundred-and-twentieth episode of PolyCast, “We Like Boats, and We Cannot Lie“ is now available for streaming on… Read More »
Video game book author Rick Barba has published a new book, called “The Art and Making of Sid Meier’s Civilization VII“.The book itself is obviously about Civ7, officially approved by Firaxis, with a foreword by Sid Meier himself. It contains various interviews with Firaxis employees, as well as concept art for Civ7. The book costs $50 and currently… Read More »
New year, new round of civ! We again invite you to participate in the “Game Of The Month”, a competition among the civfanatics to deliver the best game with a predetermined savegame. If you want to see how your skills compare to the rest of the community in Civ7, then this is now your chance! In the GOTM… Read More »
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 »