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A trip down memory lane: Hodadian Award – Pride of the World – April, 2000

By | January 5, 2026

Our moderator Quintillus has done some internet archaeology, and has stumbled upon a range of artefacts from the year 2000. Apparently civfanatics has won 2 prizes anno 2000, and he wondered about the context for these prizes. He dug out a range of old civ fan sites, as well as some of their history. If you’re interested in… Read More »

Merry Christmas from Civfanatics!

By | December 25, 2025

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.

Lost LEGO Civ game, video leaked

By | December 9, 2025

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

By | October 25, 2025

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

By | September 4, 2025

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

By | March 1, 2025

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

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 »

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.