If you are a civ-fanatic, and living anywhere close to Boston, then you have one thing to do this weekend: Head to the Revere Beach sand scultping festival. From Friday to Sunday world-renowned sand sculpting artists will be working on their sculptures to win a grand price. The theme of the competition this year is “Wonders of the… Read More »
Relevant for all of us wonder builders: LEGO will release a new set in their architecture line – The Great Pyramid of Giza on June 1. This set contains 1476 pieces, is aimed at an adult audience, and costs 139.99€. Link: https://www.lego.com/product/great-pyramid-of-giza-21058 There are 3 more relevant LEGO sets already available: The Taj Mahal (2022 pieces, 119.00€), the… Read More »
The New Scientist has reported about a new study trying to unravel the meaning of Stonehenge. The scientists assume the constellation of the stones indicate an ancient form of calendar. Their explanation: ““All except two of the sarsens at Stonehenge come from that single source, so the message to me was that they’ve got a unity to them,”… Read More »
The Humble Bundle has made a Sid Meier Bundle, containing a lot of our favourite games!If you pay at least 13.25€, you get The original Colonization Civ3 complete Civ4 complete Civ5 complete Civ: Beyond Earth – The Collection Sid Meier’s Starships Civ6 and all addons and DLC (besides the NFP, where you get a 15€ coupon) As other… Read More »
XCOM2 is currently for 1 day free-to-play. In case this might give you the taste of the franchise, you can now also get it for cheap! Until February 24, you can get: XCOM2 for 3€ XCOM2: War Of The Chosen (DLC) for 9.99 XCOM: Enemy Unknown for 4.99€ XCOM: Enemy Within for 6.24€ XCOM: Chimera Squad for 6.99€… Read More »
CivFanatics is in the meantime a very old website, with an age of over 20 years. In all this time we have gone through many changes, including style. If you want to see how we looked once upon a time, in our different eras, have a look at the thread which our user blake00 put together, showing how… Read More »
GameRant has published an article about the art director of Civ and XCOM forming a new gaming studio, Bit Reactor, with other veterans from Firaxis. The focus of the studio will go more in the direction of XCOM than of Civ, meaning more tactical turn-based games. We are obviously curious about this development and will follow it closely.… Read More »
The latest game of the other big turn-based franchise from Firaxis, XCOM 2, can be played for free this weekend (December 9 – 13) on Steam. In case this gives you enough taste for the game, it is also discounted down to 4.99€ until December 16. You can find all the relevant infos on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/268500/view/3100162842716516119