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New Civ7 merchandise: Civilization coffee

By | February 24, 2026

Today Firaxis has announced on Twitter that the geek coffee shop Madrinas has now Civilization coffee to offer (click here).Madrinas has a range of other themed gaming merchandise (if you e.g. want a Mafia coffee mug), and given that you definitely need some strong coffee for one-more-turn until the next morning, this might make some sense.The coffee is… Read More »

PolyCast 424: Musical Highlights

By | February 12, 2026

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 #424, which is from July 2023. The thread for this episode is here. The four-hundred-and-twenty-fourth episode of PolyCast, “Musical Highlights“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This… Read More »

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 »