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ShackNews Hall Of Fame 2021, including Sid Meier and Civilization

By | February 4, 2022
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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: 10 Promising Turn-Based RPG & Strategy Indie Games of 2022

By | February 1, 2022
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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: Civilization’s Past and Future, As Told By Its Lead Designers

By | January 30, 2022
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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 »

Explorminate: Top Games of 2021 and 2022

By | January 12, 2022
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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 »

PolyCast 395: Nobody Wants Your Stupid Launcher

By | December 28, 2021
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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 »

Civilization’s 30th birthday: The full map of Civilization

By | December 20, 2021
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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 »

TheCivGive2021: Join us, watch the stream (Dec 19, 12 PM PST/3 PM EST/9 PM CET)

By | December 18, 2021
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It is happening today! The final of TheCivGive2021! All the streamers listed in the picture banded together to raise $50 000 to support children’s hospitals. Currently the count is at more than $18 000, and 2K themselves, the publisher of the Civilization series, has pledged to match up to $25 000. So we need to raise less than… Read More »

Firaxis wishes you happy holidays

By | December 17, 2021
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The CivGame Twitter account has posted the above artwork, and it looks magnificent! Leave your comments here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/firaxis-wishes-you-happy-holidays.674585/