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Twitter: Happy Holidays from the Civilization team!

By | December 22, 2023

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.

PolyCast 416: Let Us Trade Maps!

By | June 1, 2023

The four-hundred-and-sixteenth episode of PolyCast, โ€œLet Us Trade Maps!โ€œ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus. Stephanie โ€œMakahluaโ€, and Phil “TheMeInTeam”.. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h02m58s | Leader Pack 4: Rulers of the Sahara First Looks Forum Talk– 00h09m21s | Sequels in Strategy Gaming: Civilization II by Digital Antiquarian– 00h15m41sโ€ฆ Read More »

Firaxis releases Marvel’s Midnight Suns

By | December 2, 2022

Today Firaxis released its major new game of the year: Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Midnight Suns is a tactical turn based game, similar to the XCOM franchise, but set in the Marvel universe, featuring various Marvel heroes like Blade or Doctor Strange. The game has so far received extremely good critiques, with 83 points on MetaCritic, so good thatโ€ฆ Read More »

The CivGive 2022 announced!

By | November 2, 2022

The CivGive is a charity event, organized by various Streamers around TheCivShow.Last year the team managed to raise $42 000 for extralife, and $25 000 were matched by 2K Games.This year the team will be aiming at $75 000 in total, to contribute to GamesOutreach.org, which helps hospitalized children through games to make ther life in the hospitalโ€ฆ Read More »

StudyingPixels podcast: Games as Historical Problem Spaces (with Jeremiah McCall)

By | October 24, 2022

The podcast StudyingPixels has released a new episode: Games as Historical Problem Spaces (with Jeremiah McCall). In this episode Stefan Heinrich Simond, a games scholar from Marbug (Germany), discusses with video game historian Jeremia McCall from the Ohio State University, also know from the blog GamingThePast, about games as historical problem spaces. This means they both address theโ€ฆ Read More »

2K games support hack, virus emails sent

By | September 23, 2022

In short: 2K reports that one of the vendors for their support was breached. The hackers sent out emails to people who had interactions with the 2K support, with a malicious link in it (or trojan attachment, depending on source). If you recently received an email from 2K which you did not expect and you clicked a linkโ€ฆ Read More »

ABCClassic: The sound of strategy, volume 2: sci-fi and fantasy

By | August 31, 2022

ABCClassic, normally a broadcaster for classical music, has published their second episode about computer game soundtracks. This episode is about sci-fi and fantasy soundtracks, and might interest some people here, because it contains 2 songs composed by Christopher Tin (who won the Grammy for the Civ4 main theme) for OffWorld Trading Company (a game by the Civ3 leadโ€ฆ Read More »

PolyCast 403: 100 Turns to the Next District

By | August 26, 2022

The four-hundred-and-third episode of PolyCast, โ€œ100 Turns to the Next Districtโ€œ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie โ€œMakahluaโ€, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News00h01m32s | Take-Two Merges with Zynga00h05m24s | Microsoft Announces Ara: Histories Untold Forum Talk00h11m03s | Issues with Production in Civilization VI00h35m52s |โ€ฆ Read More »