We’ve got a new episode in the excellent shortfilm series by Ratimir Rakuljic titled ‘University Base’ retelling the story of University faction leader Prokhor Zakharov’s journey to Alpha Centauri that we’ve been sharing over the last few years since the 25th anniversary of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. In this episode Colonel Santiago makes her move and the mutiny begins! Not long until planetfall now!
Join us here to discuss the latest episode.
In case someone ever wants to take a break from Civ, and have a look at one of the other amazing games out there, then today you got fodder: Anno 117: Pax Romana was released today (Steam, Epic). In the latest edition of this traditional city builder you get transporter further back in time, into the Roman Empire. It is your job to build thriving Roman cities, or build up new colonies in the far away lands of a Great Britain inspired landscape. In either way, you can optimize production lines, build beautiful cities, research new technologies and optionally sometimes fight. In case you find this interesting and discuss this us, then join us here.
The good people over at TurnBasedLovers have put together a list of the highest grossing turn-based games, no matter if strategy or RPG.
Unsurprisingly, this also does include some Civ titles, with Civ5 coming 4th, and Civ6 coming 2nd.
The list claims that Civ5 brought in $179 million on Steam, and Civ6 $358 million on Steam.
They guys put together the list themself, and they don’t cite their sources, so it’s unclear how reliable these numbers are. Given that Civ5 sold more than 8 million copies, this does not sound unlikely, but we cannot confirm this.
Do you want to discuss these numbers or challenge them? Join us here.
Firaxis has released a small patch to fix the most urgent bugs in patch 1.3.0. This includes that the AI will use less sanctions, produce GPs correctly, a range of stability improvements and other small fixes. For the complete list and discussion please check here.
As the title says: Firaxis has currently a developer sale going on, and all their big titles are on sale (exception: Alpha Centauri, which is not on sale).
This includes everything from Civ3 to Civ7, with the excepton of some of the Civ6 DLCs.
Civ7 is currently 35% off, Civ6 and DLCs between 25 and 50%, and the rest of the games/addons/DLCs between 10-80%.
At the same time also the other franchises are on sale, including XCOM and Marvel Midnight Suns, with discounts for the main titles and DLCs between 20 to 90%.
You can find an overview over the sale here, and discuss it with us here.
Our user sonicmyst has dug around in the latest “Tides Of Power” DLC for Civ7, and has noticed that the info for Iceland and the Ottomans is already available. You can see the info for Iceland here, for the Ottomans please check this thread.
Today we got the release of patch 1.3.0! The update itself brings us new terrains, revamped naval battle, the harbor building and the privateer unit, a rebalancing and much more. For the patch nodes please check here, and discuss with us here.
We are also getting the first part of the “Tides Of Power” DLC, which is free until January! This DLC includes The Pirate Republic, Tonga, and Edward Teach as leader, next to some smaller things. You can also discuss these in the above mentioned thread, or check the Edward Teach thread.
Please note: Some users seem to have trouble accessing the DLC, but this should only be temporary.
The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer, and this is the perfect opportunity for more civ! And therefore we are giving you the next challenge for Civ5: In this “Game Of The Month” we ask you to play as Attila The Hun, on a standard-size great plains map on Deity level. The challenge is not to be a menace to the planet, but rather to win via a science victory. You think you can do that? Then get the starting savegame here! You can submit your succesful game until December 1.