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The 30 Year Old Diskettes That Made World History Encyclopedia

By | August 4, 2026

Partner content. A guest article from our sponsor, World History Encyclopedia — written by its founder & chairman, Jan van der Crabben, known on CivFanatics as thamis (creator of The Ancient Mediterranean mod). Without these four 30-year-old diskettes containing Civilization I, World History Encyclopedia would probably not exist. Thousands of schools would be missing a trustworthy and free… Read More »

CivFanatics is Now Accepting Sponsors

By | July 10, 2026

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 »

Firaxis celebrates 30 years of strategy

By | April 28, 2026

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 »

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 »