TheCivGive2021 raises $42 000 for children’s hospitals, 2K will match $25 000

By | December 20, 2021
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In an exciting stream yesterday the streamers involved in TheCivGive2021 managed to raise in total more than $42 000 for children’s hospitals, supporting the ExtraLife foundation. This included more than one private donation of over $2000! The 2K foundation had also pledged to match up to $25 000, which was reached way before the stream reached its middle. This means in total this fundraiser has raised $67 000! Without the 2K donations this puts TheCivGive2021 in the 27th place of all teams, and with the 2K donation it will be the 17th place!

This stream saw complicated diplomacy, guest appearances by the developers, and the hosts and Kevin eating too many hot wings. You can watch the streams, which are undoubtly one of the most important Civ events this year, again on everyone’s Twitch channel, which would be the following:

  • https://www.twitch.tv/thecivshow
  • https://www.twitch.tv/potatomcwhiskey
  • https://www.twitch.tv/foybles
  • https://www.twitch.tv/peppermint_butler
  • https://www.twitch.tv/boesthius
  • https://www.twitch.tv/100games100days
  • https://www.twitch.tv/onspottv
  • https://www.twitch.tv/vanbradley
  • https://www.twitch.tv/sassygamerlady
  • https://www.twitch.tv/thegamemechanic

Happy watching :).

TheCivGive2021: Join us, watch the stream (Dec 19, 12 PM PST/3 PM EST/9 PM CET)

By | December 18, 2021
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It is happening today! The final of TheCivGive2021! All the streamers listed in the picture banded together to raise $50 000 to support children’s hospitals. Currently the count is at more than $18 000, and 2K themselves, the publisher of the Civilization series, has pledged to match up to $25 000. So we need to raise less than $7000, so donate now, and support a good cause!

The stream happens on December 19, 12 PM pacific time, 3 PM east coast time, 9 PM central European time. You can find all the live streams here: https://www.multitwitch.tv/thecivshow/boesthius/thegamemechanic/potatomcwhiskey/sassygamerlady/100games100days/peppermint_butler/razingzozo/onspottv/vanbradley/foybles .

A variety of guests will be online too, including the former community manager Kevin Schulz, as well as Ed Beach and Dennis Shirk from the development team. You can find the whole list and the time when they come online here. CFC will also be present, we will be joining everyone else at 16:45 east coast time for a small chat. And we hope our community will join us too ;).

Firaxis wishes you happy holidays

By | December 17, 2021
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The CivGame Twitter account has posted the above artwork, and it looks magnificent!

Leave your comments here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/firaxis-wishes-you-happy-holidays.674585/

TheCivGive2021: Now with guest appearances of the developers!

By | December 15, 2021
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There are more interesting developments happening for TheCivGive2021! Not only that 2K has announced to match up to $25 000 in donations for this charity drive for children’s hospitals, now the final live stream on December 19 will also have guest appearances of the developers! Kevin Schulz, our most loved community manager, has announced on Twitter that we will be joining parts of the final stream, together with Ed Beach, Carl Harrison, and maybe some more people. So… stay tuned, donate, and hope for an interesting stream!

Old World Patch #80

By | December 15, 2021
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Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have just released their latest patch. This update includes various balancing changes (e.g. no costs for tutoring), 50 new events, and more.

Discuss this patch here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-80.674561/

PCGamesN: This US teacher uses Humankind and Civilization to teach world history

By | December 14, 2021
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PCGamesN has just released an article about the educational uses of Civ and Humankind. They describe how a teacher uses both games in the classroom to teach, and uses TikTok further to go deeper in the topics.

An excerpt:

“In the normal classroom we go over the primary theme of each era. Then, in the gaming portion they play a giant multiplayer game where they are given objectives of things their civilisation (or precursor civilisation) actually did in history. When students complete their objectives we go over them in class, using the real-life events as a case study to examine the primary theme of the era.”

The article can be found here: https://www.pcgamesn.com/civilization-vi/humankind-class-teaching

You can discuss this article in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/pcgamesn-this-us-teacher-uses-humankind-and-civilization-to-teach-world-history.674539/

GOG Winter Sale

By | December 14, 2021
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GOG’s Winter Sale is on until January 5! This sale contains many items, which are interesting for us Civilization players, with the most interesting being:

Various other games of interest for the turn-based, 4X and strategy gamer are also on sale!

For 4X games, there are:

Builders:

In the category magic and fantasy we have:

War games/Tactics:

Board games:

Others:

Humankind patch 1.0.6.667 “Jigonhsasee”

By | December 13, 2021
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Amplitude Studios has released a new patch for Humankind, patch 1.0.6.667 “Jigonhsasee”. This patch includes AI improvements, improvements for the challenges, and more. You can read the full patch notes here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/patch-1-0-6-667-13-dec-2021.674529/#post-16196765