Steam currently has Civ6 discounted up to 85%, only costing 8.99€ for the base game. Both expansions (but not the other DLCs) are discounted as well down to 9.99€ and 9.89€. Get them before the sale expires on January 26!
At the same time Civ4 is also discounted, costing only 2.99€, although both expansions are sadly not on sale. Ths sale ends on January 26 as well.
EDIT: Picture by the CivGame Twitter account.
The strategy and 4X news site Explorminate has currently a series of the top games of 2021 and 2022. The different writers highlight the most interesting games of the last and coming year.
They have a few games on their list, which the community here would certainly agree are among the top games of 2021, like Old World or Humankind, and are looking forward to games like Expeditions: Rome, GalCiv4 and some lesser known ones. If you want to have a good overview what has been worthwhile a few hours last year, check their lists here:
The CivPlayersLeague is organizing a tournament this weekend, on Saturday January 15 at 14h central European time (8 AM east coast, 2 AM west coast). 6 teams of 2 are battling for world domination, with each team consisting out of one female and one male player, to encourage more women in gaming.
If you want to know more about this tournament, check the website or the discord server.
Amplitude has announced the first DLC for Humankind. The Cultures of Africa DLC will add one new African culture per era along with new events and wonders of the world. Releasing on 20th January, it is available for pre-order at 10% discount.
The new cultures in order of the eras are the Bantu, Garamantes,Swahili, Maasai, Ethiopians and Nigerians.
For the rest of the details, please check the thread in the forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/first-dlc-for-humankind-cultures-of-africa-announced.674896/#post-16208284
Original announcement: https://www.games2gether.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/blogs/796-cultures-of-africa-dlc-available-for-pre-order
And it’s again the time for the Civilization 3 “Game Of The Month”! Find out if you’re better at achieving world domination than anyone else!
For people playing with the addon “Conquests”, there is the COTM #158. In this game you play the Maya on a standard size continents map on deity level, with some more modifications to the game as well. You have until March 31st to finish this game.
All details for COTM158: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/cotm158-maya-deity-discussion-and-spoilers.674662/
For people playing with the addon “Play The World” we have the GOTM #185. In this game you play the Vikings on a standard size continents map as well, but here on regent level. You have also here until March 31st to finish this game.
All details for GOTM185: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/gotm-185-scandinavia-regent-discussion-and-spoilers.674666/
Mohawk Games, the creators of Old World, have released a new patch for their game. This patch includes again bug fixes, changes to balance and more events!
Full change log: https://mohawkgames.com/2022/01/07/old-world-update-81/
Discuss the patch in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-81.674862/
Our user blake00 has again been very active and produced a new video! In this video, he showcases/reviews the FreeMars project. FreeMars is a freely available version of our beloved Colonization, but this time set on Mars. The goal is the same as in the original Colonization: Build up your colonies, and declare independence from the motherland (earth, in this case). As also in Col this involves settling new colonies, diplomacy with other colonies, building units, producing goods, and trading with earth. The game itself is too a good part finished, but certain things are still in a development stage. Blake shows though that it is playable and can be finished. So if you’re a sci-fi fan, and you like Colonization, have a look at this ;).
Discuss this video in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ-video-series-ep-02-colonization-hd-tour.673998/#post-16206911
TurnBasedLovers have published an article, anticipating new turn-based games for January 2022. This article includes not only strategy games, but also RPGs. Most interesting for us civ-fanatics are probably Expeditions: Rome, which is a group-based RPG set in Roman times and Warriors: Rise To Glory, which is a turn-based fighting game set in a pseudo-Roman setting.
For the whole list please read the article at TurnBasedLovers.