Category Archives: Civilization VII

News relating to Sid Meier’s Civilization VII

History Respawned podcast: History Games at Not E3 2023

By | June 19, 2023

Robert Whitaker has released another episode of his History Respawned podcast. He is discussing with his co-host John Harney about VR, but more critical the most interesting games, which were not mentioned at the E3 (which was a lot). Besides obvious candidates like the next Assassin’s Creed and the most recent Zelda, they also talk about Civ7!You can… Read More »

TechSpot: 30 Years of Civilization – Over 51 Million Units Sold and a Billion Hours Played

By | June 12, 2023

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 »

PolyCast 417: Strategy Game Nostalgia

By | June 11, 2023

The four-hundred-and-seventeenth episode of PolyCast, “Strategy Game Nostalgia“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus. Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: Intro– 00h01m00s | Wing Dings, Dingbats, and DinkusesNews– 00h04m48s | Firaxis Games Studio News and Civilization 7 Soft Reveal– 00h12m22s | Leaders of the Sahara… Read More »

The Value Foundation: “Game Changers: Antiquity and Video Games”

By | June 4, 2023

The Value Foundation, a foundation dealing with history, video games, and education, has released a video where they discuss how various games have revolutionized game history. They talk about the concept of civilization, and how it appears in video games. Obviously they discuss our very favourite game, among others (e.g. Assassin’s Creed or Minecraft). They discuss that the… Read More »

Civilization 7 – Not before middle 2024?

By | May 24, 2023

We are all eagerly waiting for Civilization 7, so we cling to every piece of information we can get. Our moderator Eagle Pursuit has written down a short analysis of a recent fiscal report of Take2, and there is some chance that we will not get it before the middle of 2024. The fiscal report outlines various details,… Read More »

April Fools’: Firaxis announces Civilization 2K23

By | April 1, 2023

The Civilization franchise has long been one of the most beloved and enduring in gaming history. With each new iteration, developer Firaxis has managed to add new features and mechanics while still maintaining the addictive gameplay loop that has kept players coming back for more for over three decades. Initially announced as “the next civ game,” many media… Read More »

Announcement: Civilization 7 in development

By | February 17, 2023

The official Civilization twitter account has announced that the next Civilization is in development! Discuss these exciting news with us here.

Parody (not real): Joe Biden’s leader portrait for Civ7

By | November 28, 2022

A fake image, generated by one of the recent AI image generators, is currently highly popular on Twitter (50.000+ likes): A scene displaying Joe Biden in the style of a Civilization leader portrait. This is NOT an image from Civilization VII, which has not been announced, and will certainly not feature Joe Biden. If you want to discuss… Read More »