Firesquid Games, an indy publisher focused on strategy games, is currently looking for playtesters for 3 of their upcoming games, and all 3 are of interest to the Civ-Fanatics audience! This announcement was posted via the FireSquid Twitter account, and you can sign up here to be selected as a playtester. You can discuss this playtest with us… Read More »
Fields of Glory II is a historical turn-based tactics game.It is a war game, covering the Roman era from before Christ, allowing you to fight battles in various places over Europe.The base game is currently for free on Steam, until June 8, 9 AM.The DLCs are not included, but are currently also heavily discounted.This news item was discovered… Read More »
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.