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Ancient Mycenaean Armor Was Suitable for Extended Combat, Research Confirms
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 recruited… Read More »
PCGamer: A new physics paper suggests that we may all be living in the ultimate 4X strategy game after all
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,… Read More »
PolyCast 431: Daylight Savings
The four-hundred-and-thirty-first episode of PolyCast, “Daylight Savings“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, 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 Release… Read More »
(Back Episode) PolyCast 419: News, News, and More News
The four-hundred-and-nineteenth episode of PolyCast, “News, News, and More News“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, 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 from… Read More »
More news on mobile Civ game (most likely China specific)
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 already… Read More »
Euronews: “AI models chose violence and escalated to nuclear strikes in simulated wargames”
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 models… Read More »
Twitter: Happy Holidays from the Civilization team!
The Civ team has just posted their holiday greetings on Twitter, and they can also be found on the Civ website.A very nice drawing, as last year, although it allows less speculations for the next title. If you still want to speculate, then join us here.