We have some exciting news to share: CivFanatics has its very first sponsor — World History Encyclopedia. If you’ve glanced at our sidebar lately, you may have spotted a new “Our Partners” spot. We recently opened a small number of hand-picked sponsorship slots to help keep the site running — and we couldn’t be happier that the first… Read More »
For over 25 years, CivFanatics has been the home of the Civilization community – across all seven mainline games, countless mods, thousands of Games of the Month, and millions of forum posts. Keeping it all online and free takes real work, and today we’re adding a new way to help sustain it: sponsorships. We’re opening a small number… Read More »
After the Civ series itself with Civ1, and also this year Civ2 turn 30, it seems that Firaxis themself is also turning 30! Sid, Brian Reynold and Jeff Briggs founded Firaxis anno 1996 after they left Microprose, and so far it seems that the studio is standing the test of time. As with such events, Firaxis wants to… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 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.
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.