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 »
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.
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 »
The four-hundred-and-thirty-sixth episode of PolyCast, “They Say Strategy is Dying“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h01m22s | Study the Past by Firaxis: Civ 1, Civ 2, and Civ 3– 00h03m48s | OId World: Behind the Throne… Read More »
The recent trend of live-service games and MMOs has lead to a worrying trend: Games get shut down, and nobody can play them anymore. With the Civ series, this has not been an issue, as all games are stand-alone, and you don’t need a server from Firaxis. But many other games have recently been shut down, and now… Read More »
The Tacticon is a virtual convention about strategy games, organized by the independent publishers FireSquid Games and HoodedHorse, and therefore should contain some things, which are also interesting for us.This year the convention will happen from July 18 to July 22. The lineup normally consists out of various talks, new demos, and some sales, obviously.The list of games… Read More »
The four-hundred-and-thirty-third episode of PolyCast, “Fringe Theories“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h01m38s | Call to Power’s 25th Anniversary– 00h11m43s | Real Life as a 4X Simulator?ModCast– 00h28m37s | Quality of Life Mods for Civilization VIForum… Read More »
IGN has today published an article about a recent study, called “Gamers Are Becoming Less Interested in Games With Deep Strategy, Study Finds”.This study, which was performed by a market research institute, was focused on the motivation of gamers, and has recorded data over the last 9 years. This data is based on a 5 minute survey, which… Read More »