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PolyCast 393: Of Portugal and Feitorias

By CanusAlbinus | November 1, 2021

The three hundred-and-ninety-third episode of PolyCast, “Of Portugal and Feitorias“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, 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 |… Read More »

Civilization’s 30th birthday: The winning poems #4

By The_J | October 23, 2021

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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 complications… Read More »

Civilization’s 30th birthday: The winning poems #2

By The_J | October 21, 2021

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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 us… Read More »

Civilization’s 30th birthday: The winning poems #1

By The_J | October 20, 2021

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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,… Read More »

Civilization’s 30th birthday: The winners

By The_J | October 19, 2021

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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 best… Read More »

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

By The_J | October 18, 2021

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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 and… Read More »

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

By The_J | October 8, 2021

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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 these… Read More »

Official from Firaxis: It’s Civilization’s Big 30-Year Celebration!

By The_J | September 30, 2021

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Firaxis has announced today that they’re officially starting the party for Civ’s 30th birthday. Besides the above video, they also have an address from Sid Meier himself written down. Read the official announcement here: https://civilization.com/fr-FR/news/entries/it-s-civilization-s-big-30-year-celebration/ Discuss it in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/official-from-firaxis-it%E2%80%99s-civilizations-big-30-year-celebration.673485/