Take-Two CEO Insists Projections for the ‘Lifetime Value’ of Civilization 7 Are ‘Very Consistent With Our Initial Expectations for the Title’

By | August 12, 2025
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IGN has posted today an article called “Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick Insists Projections for the ‘Lifetime Value’ of Civilization 7 Are ‘Very Consistent With Our Initial Expectations for the Title’ — Despite ‘Slow Start’“.
IGN has interviewed the CEO of Take-Two, Strauss Zelnick, and he said “I think the key thing is that Civ has always been a slow burn. It’s always been a title that had — I’m not really a big believer in the long tail theory of the entertainment business — but Civ is an example of that theory. And right now our projections for the lifetime value of the title are very consistent with our initial expectations for the title.”
He also admits that the start was not great, overall, but that this still does not impede the sales projections (as just mentioned).
You can read the whole article here, and discuss it with us here.

Civ7: Settlers edition now available, and 30% on Civ7 (and more sales)

By | August 11, 2025
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Firaxis has today announced the “Settler Edition” for Civ7: This is a Civ7 edition which contains everything from the founders edition (not anymore available), besides some cosmetic items. This includes the Tecumseh DLC, the Rights To Rule and Crosswrods of the World DLC and 4 leader personas. You can have a look at the overview at the official page, and you can discuss with us here.

Currently there are also sales going on, which includes Civ7 with a 30% discount. This makes right now 48.99€ for the base game (instead of 69.99), 69.99 for the Deluxe Edition (instead of 99.99), and the new Settler edition is right now 83.99 (instead of 119.99). You can find the sales on the Steam page here.

This sale goes together with the 4X Fest, and the other Civ titles are also on sale.

Civilization 3 complete for free for Amazon Prime members

By | August 9, 2025
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The complete edition of Civilization 3 is currently for free if you have an Amazon Prime membership. This deal runs until November 5 2025, but you will be able to use this copy of Civ3 also after this deadline, as this is a download code for GOG.com.

You can get your copy here, and discuss it with us here.

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #270

By | August 8, 2025
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Also for the summer you’re getting a Civ5 GOTM! For this session you play as Pachacuti of the Inca on a standard size “South America” map on Immortal level. You need to win this game with a culture victory, and you must prevent that any other civ achieves another victory. You have until September 1 to play this game. For more information please check this thread.

Public beta for Folk Emerging – a prehistoric 4X

By | August 7, 2025
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We’ve been for a while following the progress of “Folk Emerging“: A 4X game, which stops when civ starts, and starts… way before. In this turn-based strategy game you control a stone age tribe, make sure you feed your tribes-men and -women, and discover new technologies like fire and tool making.

Now the next phase for this game has started, and you can participate in the public beta and playtest it! You can request access via the Steam page here. We’d be curious to hear your experiences if you played it, please report back here (if allowed).

If you also interested to learn a bit more, RockPaperShotgun has published an article about Folk Emerging here.

Alpha Centauri: University Base Film Series – Episode 2 Part 1

By | August 4, 2025
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Last year when we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri we showed you the first episode of a brilliant new fan shortfilm series by Ratimir Rakuljic titled ‘University Base’ retelling the story of University faction leader Prokhor Zakharov’s journey to Alpha Centauri. Well the day has come that his big Episode 2 titled ‘Fractured Unity’ is here.. in fact it’s so big he’s splitting it into 3 parts! We hope folks enjoy it as much as they did Episode 1! 🙂

Join the discussion here.

Civilization 3 Scenario/Mod Preservation Project

By | August 3, 2025
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Years ago we posted about Blake’s Civ2 preservation project which went on to preserve several thousand lost Civ2 mods & scenarios. Well now he’s kicked off a new Civilization 3 scenario & mods preservation project starting with 4 large collections totaling around 16 Gigabytes. If you’re a fan of Civ3 and it’s mods then we encourage you to grab copies for yourselves and if you happen to have your own large collection of Civ3 mods and scenarios you’d be willing to donate then please let us know! Check out the downloads here.

Dev Journal #3: What’s Next for Ara: History Untold?

By | July 31, 2025
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A new dev diary for Ara: History Untold has been posted on Steam on Monday.
The team from Oxide talks about the coming version 2.0, which will be a big update.
It will include new features, like new units per nation, and more and better ways to shape your culture and make your nation unique.
The update will also come more incremental steps, like reduced micromanagement, and UI and performance improvements.
You can read the update here, and discuss it with us here.