Paradox is a producer of a range of 4X games, which also have a big following in the Civ community, despite actually not being turn based. One of their latest games, Europe Universalis IV, is currently free to play until September 15! In case you can’t get enough within the remaining days, the base game is also 75%… Read More »
The Humble Bundle currently has a sale for all the big 2K games. Most interesting for us are obviously Civ6, but as strategy gamers here we probably also fancy all the XCOM titles as well as Railroad Tycoon titles. This bundle also contains other titles of extremely high quality, e.g. the Bioshock collection or Mafia collection. To get… Read More »
Explorminate, a website dedicated to 4X, strategy and tactic games, has published a list of interesting games currently in development.Most of these games are also interesting for us Civ-fanatics, and have been mentioned here on CFC before. The list: Spellforce: Conquest of Eo Master of Magic (reboot) Alliance Of The Sacred Suns Revival: Recolonization Ara – History Untold… Read More »
Robert Whitaker has released another episode of his History Respawned podcast. He is discussing with his co-host John Harney about the most interesting games at the Gamescom, e.g. Victory 3 or Age of Empires IV. This release of the podcast is combined with an earlier episode of the Civs 101 series about the Inca from July last year.… Read More »
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 lead… Read More »
10 days ago we started a little competition to give away three keys for ZOR: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs. This game is a turn-based monster manager, where you up try to bring your two Slorfs through a crazy world while building up your deck and managing your base. The creator turned out to be a lurker here at… Read More »
The four-hundred-and-third episode of PolyCast, “100 Turns to the Next District“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, 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 |… Read More »
Win a copy of ZOR: Pilgrimage of the SlorfsThere are a lot of Civ fans, as you know. As it turns out, some of these fans are also game developers, and long time lurkers at CFC!One of them is @Righteous Hammer Games , who will release his game ZOR: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs on August 30 on Steam. He’s excited about the… Read More »