Merry Christmas from Civfanatics!
Merry Christmas to all CivFanatics fans! Hope you have a great day and thank you for all your support this year! In case you want to post anything about the holidays, then join us here.
Category Archives: General
Lost LEGO Civ game, video leaked
We already mentioned it a while ago that there was apparently a cancelled LEGO civ game. It seems that this then flew under our radar for a while, and a month ago our user cuc had posted a leaked video from the unfinished game. Have a look at the video above, and discuss with us here.
25 years of Civfanatics – a retrospective – UPDATE: Also Civ4 anniversary
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 »
Layoffs at Firaxis
It seems that today various personnel at Firaxis got layed off, mostly junior staff members. This got also confirmed by 2K, and is the 3rd round of layoffs this year already. This comes despite that the 2K CEO recently claimed that Civ7 is still on track for its expected revenue. For more information please read this news article,… Read More »
C-evo 1.3.7 released
The next version of C-evo has been released! C-evo is, similar to FreeCiv, another free and open source version of civ, which is maybe strongest inspired by Civ2. This update is a minor update, including that the graphics get better scaled, the French translation got updated, a few bug fixes and more. If you feel like playing a… Read More »
The Baltimore Banner: How Baltimore County became a hidden world of video game companies
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 »
Holiday greetings from Firaxis
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.
CivFanatics Whatsapp channel
We are trying our best to be at all the places where Civ fans are, so now we have decided to also add an Whatsapp channel to our repertoire.Whatsapp channels are essentially giant groups, where only the admins can write, and other users can react to the messages.We will be using this Whatsapp channel to post the news… Read More »