The BBC has an article with Sid Meier, where he talks about the current development in the games industry. The views in the article probably come due to the recent increase in the monetisation in this industry, not only with in-app purchases and micro-transactions, but also with the recent NFT hype. He also talks about the rise of… Read More »
The Telegraph has published an article two days ago, probably also related to Sid’s birthday, about his story and the experiences with Civilization. They talk about how Sid himself started up in gaming, the relationship to education, and development rules like the 1/3rd rule: 1/3rd keep, 1/3rd improve, 1/3rd new. An excerpt: “Can Civ games – which feature… Read More »
Shacknews has published their 2021 Hall of Fame, which includes games, companies, and also people. One of the most important ones, obviously, Sid Meier! https://www.shacknews.com/article/128105/shacknews-hall-of-fame?page=8#detail-view“Millions of players know Sid Meier as the father of the Sid Meier’s Civilization series of turn-based strategy games. That only makes sense: His name is in the title. But Meier started on a… Read More »
TurnBasedLovers have published an outlook for 2022, what they consider the most promising TBS games of the year. Of special interest for the civ-loving audience is probably the game “Ozymandias“, and in the article we can see that the TurnBasedLovers are also big Civ fans, since they write: “Okay, by a show of hands – how many of… Read More »
IGN has just published an interview with some of the most important people in Civ history: Soren Johnson, Jon Shafer, Ed Beach and Anton Strenger, who each gave a bit of new direction for Civ.They talk in the interview about how they started with Civ, their most-liked additions to Civ, and how they see Civ in the whole… Read More »
The strategy and 4X news site Explorminate has currently a series of the top games of 2021 and 2022. The different writers highlight the most interesting games of the last and coming year. They have a few games on their list, which the community here would certainly agree are among the top games of 2021, like Old World… Read More »
The three hundred-and-ninety-fifth episode of PolyCast, “Nobody Wants Your Stupid Launcher“ 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: News– 00h01m39s | 2K’s Launcher Updates, Players Yawn– 00h09m02s | #TheCivGive2021 Forum Talk– 00h18m38s | TurnBasedLover’s Top 10 4X Games of All… Read More »
Our moderator bite, also known as Brian MacNamara or TL;DR Reviews, has created another overview map. After recently creating the ultimate Civ6 map, he has now created the absolutely ultimate Civ map overview with every feature of every Civilization title. He has multiple regional maps (you can see the one for Mesopotamia), as well as a full world… Read More »