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
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
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
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:
- Civ3 for 1.29€
- Civ4 (including Civ4: Colonization) for 5€
- Alpha Centauri for 1.39€
- Call To Power 2 for 3.49€
- Colonization for 1.49€
Various other games of interest for the turn-based, 4X and strategy gamer are also on sale!
For 4X games, there are:
- Galactic Civilizations I
- Galactic Civilizations II
- Galactic Civilizations III
- Imperialism
- Imperialism II
- Crusader Kings: Complete
- Europa Universalis
- Europa Universalis II
- Europa Universalis III
- Master Of Orion 1+2
- Master Of Orion: The Remake
- Master Of Orion: Collector’s Edition
- Populus
- Populus 2
- Populus: The Beginning
- Scythe
- Stellaris
- Victoria
- Victoria II
Builders:
- The recent indy hit Dorfromantik
- OffWorld Trading Company (by Soren Johnson)
- Alien Nations
- Caesar I
- Caesar II
- Caesar IV
- Emperor: Rise Of The Middle Kingdom
- Cultures 1+2
- Cultures: Northland + 8th Wonder
- Patrician 1+2
- Patrician 3
- Patrician 4
- Pharao + Cleopatra
- Settlers 2
- Settlers 2 Remake
- Settlers 3
- Settlers 4
- Settlers: Rise Of An Empire
- Space Colony
- Startopia
- Tropico 3
- Tropico 4
- Tropico 5
- Tropico 6
- Zeus + Poseidon
In the category magic and fantasy we have:
- Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes (the game of Civ4 master modder Kael!)
- Age Of Wonders 1
- Age Of Wonders 2
- Age Of Wonders: Shadow Magic
- Age Of Wonders 3
- Age Of Wonders: Planetfall
- Disciples 1
- Disciples 2 Gold
- Eador 1
- Eador 2
- Heroes Of Might And Magic 1
- Heroes Of Might And Magic 2
- Heroes Of Might And Magic 3
- Heroes Of Might And Magic 4
- Heroes Of Might And Magic 5
- King’s Bounty: Crossworlds
- King’s Bounty: The Legend
- Master Of Magic
War games/Tactics:
Board games:
Others:
Humankind patch 1.0.6.667 “Jigonhsasee”
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
Old World: Interview with Soren Johnson
Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released a podcast interviewing Soren Johnson. Soren is the lead designer of Old World, as well as Civ4, so this interview should be intersting ;).
You can find the podcast here: https://mohawkgames.com/podcasts/interview-with-soren-johnson-design-director/
We have a thread in our forum for the podcast here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/podcast-interview-with-soren-johnson.674526/
IGN: Civilization V Developers React to Speedruns
IGN has released a video, where three of the Civ5 developers watch and react to two different speed runs. They discuss during the video also nuke-happy Gandhi, how they initially forgot to ship the scoring screen, and other things.
This video can also be found at IGN, and you can discuss it in our forum here.
Slitherine: Home Of Wargamers 2021
Slitherine has announced their “Home Of Wargamers” 2021 live stream, where they’ll show all the content to be scheduled for release in 2021 (we assume they mean 2022). The live stream will take place on December 14, 2 PM UK time. The content they plan to show can be seen in the picture, and consists (as people who are familiar with the publisher know) mostly out of turn-based war games.
You can follow the live stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/slitherinetv