For the mid-month Civ5 GOTM you play as Dido of Carthage on a standard size small continents map on Deity level. While you would certainly want to take a stab at Caesar, you have to win via a Diplomacy victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving another victory. Your deadline is April 15. For more information please check this thread.
The four-hundred-and-eighteenth episode of PolyCast, “We Really Said Something!“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:
News
– 00h05m03s | Great Builder’s Pack Released and Livestream
– 00h22m10s | Leader of England Pack Preview
Forum Talk
– 00h35m23s | History Sim vs. Board Game, Part 501
– 00h51m48s | Korean Reaction to Sejong
Senate
– 01h06m26s | Which Leaders Deserve A Nerf (According to GameRant)
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on March 25, 2023 (yes, still catching up with old episodes).
PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production recording live every other Saturday at 12 Noon US Eastern Time throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice. Streaming is currently disabled due to ongoing technical issues.
Discuss this latest episode with us here.
Firaxis has released another Civ6 “Challenge Of The Month”, appropriate for the time of the year: Ides of March. You are obviously playing as Julius Caesar on a pretty much standard setup, besides epic speed and Secret Societies are enabled. You need to win in any way, besides a score victory, and you can choose Prince or Emperor difficulty. You have until April 9 to finish this challenge. For more information please check this thread.
The Civ5 Battle Royale is huge but the concept of the show is pretty simple! On a massive world map, 61 AI Civilizations got at it to see which one can be the last one standing. All Civilizations are chosen by the audience of the civbattleroyale reddit group and part of the fun is helping narrate the story collectively along with original content and putting your support behind one of the competitors. No human intervention in the show as a several months long game is recorded and then curated into episodes across the action. Episodes are narrated by members of their 10k+ sized community cheering on the AIs on their unpredictable route to victory. Three seasons have been recorded so far, and the 4th one is about to start on March 20. If you are interested in following, then join us in our thread here.
And we are now at the 17th dev diary for Ara: History Untold.
This time the devs talk essentially about how wonders and other monumental buildings are getting into the game, from the initial decision what to include, through the whole design process.
Check it out, and discuss it with us here.
Electronic Arts is making the news this weekend as they’ve released a huge amount of classic games in their catalog ie the entire Command & Conquer collection, Sim City 3000, Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and many more including a very important one to a lot of people on this site Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri (already available though via GOG)! On top of that they’ve put them all on sale at mega low prices! Check out the sale here, and discuss it with us here.
Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update brings changes to the AI, a new map script, city production can be automated, and character portraits will now be gradually aging (see the picture).
Discuss this update with us here (and read the full list of changes too).
Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.
The demo of Millennia has been quite a success, and the devs have now published the first diary after the release. Well, not really a dev diary, but rather the list of recent changes, which should be meaningful for the players. The long list includes a bunch of graphical changes which are definitely visible in the new screenshots, and burried in the long list also some adjustments to the “Raiders”. Have a look at the long list here.