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TurnBasedLovers: 10 Promising Turn-Based RPG & Strategy Indie Games of 2022

By | February 1, 2022

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 โ€“ how many ofโ€ฆ Read More »

IGN: Civilization’s Past and Future, As Told By Its Lead Designers

By | January 30, 2022

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 wholeโ€ฆ Read More »

Explorminate: Top Games of 2021 and 2022

By | January 12, 2022

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 Worldโ€ฆ Read More »

PolyCast 395: Nobody Wants Your Stupid Launcher

By | December 28, 2021

The three hundred-and-ninety-fifth episode of PolyCast, โ€œNobody Wants Your Stupid Launcherโ€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: News– 00h01m39s | 2K’s Launcher Updates, Players Yawn– 00h09m02s | #TheCivGive2021 Forum Talk– 00h18m38s | TurnBasedLover’s Top 10 4X Games of Allโ€ฆ Read More »

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

By | December 20, 2021

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 worldโ€ฆ Read More »

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

By | December 18, 2021

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 thanโ€ฆ Read More »

Firaxis wishes you happy holidays

By | December 17, 2021

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/

TheCivGive2021: Now with guest appearances of the developers!

By | December 15, 2021

There are more interesting developments happening for TheCivGive2021! Not only that 2K has announced to match up to $25 000 in donations for this charity drive for children’s hospitals, now the final live stream on December 19 will also have guest appearances of the developers! Kevin Schulz, our most loved community manager, has announced on Twitter that weโ€ฆ Read More »