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Lost LEGO Civ game, video leaked

By | December 9, 2025

We already mentioned it a while ago that there was apparently a cancelled LEGO civ game. It seems that this then flew under our radar for a while, and a month ago our user cuc had posted a leaked video from the unfinished game. Have a look at the video above, and discuss with us here.

Ancient Mycenaean Armor Was Suitable for Extended Combat, Research Confirms

By | June 26, 2024

This article is already a month old, but just popped up on social media:Researchers have tried to tackle a question if a 3500 old armour from Mycenean Greece was used for ceremonial purposes or for real fighting. Apparently no descriptions about this armor have survived into modern times.The researchers therefore have made replicas of the armor, and recruitedโ€ฆ Read More »

PCGamer: A new physics paper suggests that we may all be living in the ultimate 4X strategy game after all

By | April 23, 2024

PCGamer has today published an article called “A new physics paper suggests that we may all be living in the ultimate 4X strategy game after all“. Most people here have probably watched the Matrix, a similar movie, read a book in this vein, etc: We could be all living in a simulation.Apparently a new physics paper was published,โ€ฆ Read More »

PolyCast 431: Daylight Savings

By | March 24, 2024

The four-hundred-and-thirty-first episode of PolyCast, โ€œDaylight Savingsโ€œ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie โ€œMakahluaโ€, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h02m50s | March Challenge of the Month: The Ides of March– 00h12m45s | Latest Information on the Civilization Mobile Game– 00h14m46s | Millennia Releaseโ€ฆ Read More »

(Back Episode) PolyCast 419: News, News, and More News

By | March 20, 2024

The four-hundred-and-nineteenth episode of PolyCast, โ€œNews, News, and More Newsโ€œ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie โ€œMakahluaโ€, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 06m34s | Leader Pass Developer Livestream– 25m48s | Civilization VI Added to Game Pass– 30m16s | April Fools fromโ€ฆ Read More »

More news on mobile Civ game (most likely China specific)

By | March 1, 2024

A new post on the Chinese platform bilibili has given us some new screenshots as well as a video of the mobile Civ game, which is in development and might potentially only be available for the Chinese or a wider Asian market. The game was originally announced as “Civilization: Eras & Allies”, and is based on an alreadyโ€ฆ Read More »

Euronews: “AI models chose violence and escalated to nuclear strikes in simulated wargames”

By | February 27, 2024

I do admit, these news are only very tangentially related to Civ6, but nevertheless interesting enough for us here: Nobody probably has not noticed the recent hype about AI, and how people try to use it for everything. Researchers from Cornell university have used different large language models (LLM) as agents in political scenarios and wargames. The modelsโ€ฆ Read More »