Today we got another release in the 4X hemisphere: Myriads: Renaissance.This game is a turn-based 4X game, set in a fantasy rennaissance setting. You colonize floating islands, develop them, recruit armies and fight battles.It also belongs to the more recent wave of smale-scale 4X games, with a single game taking roughly 4 hours to complete.The game just got… Read More »
Today, Sega has announced the newest title in the Total War franchise, Total War: Pharaoh.Fans of the series will not be suprised: Total War: Pharaoh continues with everything what belongs to Total War, so a turn-based overview map and real-time battles. The game will have 8 playable factions, of which Egypt, the Hittites and Canaanites are already known.… Read More »
The Tacticon is over, and besides many sales, there were also many interesting talks! They are now also available on youtube, the playlist is here. Talks include, among others, “The Art of War: Applying philosophical principles to modern strategy games” (panel includes Soren Johnson) and “Heroes at war: the role of key characters in strategy games” (panel here… Read More »
We just had a raffle for PocketCiv, which is a nice small civ-style game. We asked our users what they would like to have less in Civilization games, and then rolled the dice to determine the winner. Our user Kyriakos won one copy, requesting less internal stability in Civ nations. Our user chefofrats would like to see less… Read More »
Tacticon starts tomorrow, and we have an interesting schedule. Besides the sales, the talks about the random number generator in strategy games, as well as the music, are of special interest for the civ community. Sales (starting probably tomorrow) can be found here https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TactiCon , as well as the streams.All streams will be later available on youtube, and… Read More »
The developers of Ara: History Untold have published a new blog post about the update on their roads, to make them more lively and organic looking. You can find the screenshots here, and discuss them in our forum here.
The information for the next Tacticon is out!The Tacticon is an online strategy convention, which features talks (about e.g. the Art Of War), streams, new demos for interesting strategy titles, and also sales.This year 100+ titles will be present, including Endless Dungeon, and many others.The sale will include interesting titles like Timberborn, Lords of Rigel, Terra Invicta, the… Read More »
As you know, we like a game called “Civilization”. Sometimes we also like some other games, but even better if they also have a “civ” in it! Recently we stumbled upon the game “PocketCiv“, thanks to their Twitter account. As you can guess from the title, it’s a neat and small civ-like game, staying more in the ancient… Read More »