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More autumn sales besides Old World and Civ6: Humankind, Sega, Slitherine, Argonwood, Paradox, Stardock

By | November 24, 2021

It’s sales time! Right now we already have a sale on Old World (10%), and Civ6 Anthology edition (65%). But besides this, more and more developers and publishers have started their autumn sales! Most important to the Civ community is the SEGA sale of Humankind, 20% off for 39.99โ‚ฌ. The SEGA sale has many interesting games, e.g. Totalโ€ฆ Read More »

PolyCast 393: Of Portugal and Feitorias

By | November 1, 2021

The three hundred-and-ninety-third episode of PolyCast, โ€œOf Portugal and Feitoriasโ€œ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie โ€œMakahluaโ€, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: Forum Talk– 00h01m51s | Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley’s 2018 Speech to GDC– 00h07m26s | How Hard-coded is the Opening Gambit– 00h17m49s |โ€ฆ Read More »

Civilizationโ€™s 30th birthday: The winning poems #4

By | October 23, 2021

In addition to the 3 main prizes, we also had an additional poetry prize for our 30 years celebration. We unexpectedly got many excellent poetry submissions, which made this one picking harder. We selected the poem by our user Romegypt, who receives a rare Civilization 4 deluxe version and a merchandise package. His contribution exquisetly highlights the complicationsโ€ฆ Read More »

Civilizationโ€™s 30th birthday: The winning poems #2

By | October 21, 2021

We picked recently our winners of the birthday contest for Civilization, who all received a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a merchandise package. We now want to use this place to highlight these poems. The second poem, which are actually multiple senryus, have been submitted by our user Hinin, and show usโ€ฆ Read More »

Civilizationโ€™s 30th birthday: The winning poems #1

By | October 20, 2021

We picked recently our winners of the birthday contest for Civilization, who all received a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a merchandise package. We now want to use this place to highlight these poems. The first poem has been submitted by our user topsecret. It definitely captures the Civ atmosphere. “One day,โ€ฆ Read More »

Civilizationโ€™s 30th birthday: The winners

By | October 19, 2021

After a long time discussing the entries of the birthday contest, our team has finally decided about the best presents our users have given to Civ. The 3 main prizes, a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a Civ merchandise package, goes to our users topsecret, Hinin and MasterOaks. The prize for bestโ€ฆ Read More »

New 4X & Grand Turn based and Real time strategy games coming to PC in 2021/2022

By | October 18, 2021

The above video was recently published, mentioend on Twitter, and we think it is very relevant to the Civ-fanatics audience. While it’s a bit early in the year for such a preview, it is certainly worth a watch (despite the annoying issues with the voice-over) if you have time to play anything else besides Civ, Old World andโ€ฆ Read More »

Kotaku: What’s A 4X Game, And Why Do They Rule?

By | October 8, 2021

Kotaku has made a video about our most beloved genre: The 4X games. In this video, they go quickly back to the beginning of 4X with Master Of Orion 1, and then describe a bit the features which all these games have. The video is not very in-depth, but if you need to convince someone else why theseโ€ฆ Read More »