Firaxis has released the new Civ6 challenge, this time called “Civpocalypse”. As the name says, it is a horrid setting, with Barbarian Clans, maximum disaster intensity and apocalypse game mode. You play as Tamar of Georgia on a tiny pangaea map with wet climate and high sea level on quick speed with sparse resources. You may pick between Prince and Emperor difficulty for this challenge. This challenge is available until January 15. For more info please check here.
We got 2 new pieces of Civ7 info today from Firaxis!
The first one is that we got a new civ guide, this time Mexico! Mexico is cultural and diplomatic, with a starting bias for desert and plains. Mexico gets many cultural buildings, a unique government form, and their associated wonder, the Palacio de Bellas Artes, get boni from great works. For more info please check this thread.
The second important info is that we will get another live stream, this time for the modern age. You can tune in on December 17th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 5PM GMT / 7PM CEST, to see gameplay with Benjamin Franklin with the American civ in the modern age. And a new leader will be revealed as well. For the discussion please join us in this thread.
Today Firaxis has released a new short, this time talking about religion. We get a few details about founder, enhancer and reliquary believes, have a close look at the screens. Please join us here for the discussion.
We are again back with the “Game Of The Month”, our monthly challenge for you to play the best Civ6 game ever. This time we have prepared you a game where you play as Tamar of Georgia on a small hot and arid Wetlands map with high sea level. You will play this game withh online speed on deity difficulty. You get abundant resources and a legendary start position, and quite a number of game modes enabled. Your target is to win a score victory after 200 turns, and you have until February 1 2025 to do this. For all the info and the savegame please check our thread here.
We got three new interesting pieces of information for Civ7 today!
As first, we got a look at Ibn Battuta. His most interesting skill is that he seems to be able to pick his attributes to his liking. He also gets increased sight for his units, and he can see some areas which other leades have explored. Accordingly, he likes leaders who explore a lot. For more info and the discussion on this interesting leader please check this thread.
The second important info is that the theme for Civ7, again composed by the master, Christopher Tin, will be revealed next week. There will be an orchestra live performance at the GameAwards, at Thursday, Dec 12, at 4:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM ET / 12:30 AM GMT. Join us here for the excitement and discussion.
As 3rd important info, PCGamer has today published an article called “Civilization 7 is officially 2025’s Most Wanted PC game, and the creative director told us how he’s going to get you to finally finish a Civ campaign“.
It seems, as obvious from the title, that Civ7 was voted the most wanted by the PC gaming show, beating a lot of contenders.
Ed Beach also explains again the reason for the different eras, as they are hoping that more people will finish now a whole game, enjoying all the interesting mechanics of Civ7.
Join us for the discussion of this article here.
Firaxis has released today the 4th dev diary, talking about the events in the game. In Civ7, a story will develop for the player, based on your decisions. You will not only see historical event, but also what-if events based on your choices, leading to some unique combiations which you might rarely see. If you want to discuss the narrative in Civ7, then join us here.
As second interesting news item of the day, the official Playstation blog has released today a trailer showing gameplay on the PS5 (because Civ7 will also be released on all the consoles). Console controllers are not typically seen as the perfect choice to play strategy games, but in the video it looks rather smooth. If you want to comment on the trailer, then find us in this thread here.
While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets.
For the G-Major CL we challenge you to play as Casimir III of Poland on a tiny “large islands” map on epic speed. You also need to play on King difficulty, and win a science victory. The deadline is December 31. For more details please check here.
For the G-Minor CCXXIII we challenge you to play as Wu Zetian on a small highlands map on quick speed. This game must be played on Warlods difficulty and must be won with a domination victory. Also here the deadline is December 31. For the details please check this thread.
Today Firaxis gave us the official guide to the Songhai, the last exploration age civ. The Songhai are an economic and militaristic civ, with a starting bias for navigable rivers, plains, coast and desert. Most of their unique featurs such as improvements and units feature the water/rivers and give boni if on or adjacent to it. Curious? Check the details here.
In other news, GameIndustry.biz has published an article called “How Nintendo Switch has changed Firaxis’ approach to making Civilization“. In the article it is described how the Civ6 version on the Switch was a surprise hit, which as Firaxis led to directly go multi-platform for Civ7, and that they are directly involved in the console port. For the discussion of this news article please check here.