The Baltimore Banner: How Baltimore County became a hidden world of video game companies

By | December 29, 2024

The Baltimore Banner, a news website dedicated to Baltimore, has just before Christmas ran a title called “How Baltimore County became a hidden world of video game companies“.
As many of you know, Baltimore is the home to our most important gaming studio, Firaxis, but not only that. Its predecessor, Microprose, responsible for Civ1+2 was also situated in Baltimore, and more recently also many things have happened there. Firaxis personnel has spawnd other studios like “Big Huge Games”, which were responsible for “Rise of Nations”, and very recently Oxide Games, which has developed “Ara: History Untold”. And we don’t know yet what games will come from 2 other studios founded by Firaxis employees, Bit Reactor and Midsummer Studios.
If you want to read a bit more, then check out the article by the Baltimore Banner here, and discuss it with us here.

GamesRadar: Civ 5 caused a commotion at a space agency its creative director used to work at

By | December 22, 2024

GamesRadar has today published an article called “Civ 5 caused a commotion at a space agency its creative director used to work at“.
It seems that Ed Beach had worked as a contractor for the NASA, working at the Hubble Space telescope.
It seems that the institute who’s dealing with the telescope is sitting in Baltimore, where also Firaxis is, and when Hubble was added in BNW, this made quite some people happy.
Read the article here, and discuss it with us here.

Current 4X sales!

By | December 20, 2024
Sales

It’s sales times on Steam, and there is a great selection to choose from!

From the civ franchise we got:

  • 95% off on Civ6, for 2.99 for the base game, with slightly less good discounts for the platinum and anthology edition
  • 75% off on Civ:BE, for 9.99
  • 80% off on Civ4, for 3.99
  • 80% off on Civ3, for 0.99

Other interesting games are also on sale, and include:

Save some money for Civ7 though ;).

Civ7 dev diary #5: Combat

By | December 18, 2024

Firaxis has today released the next dev diary, this time about combat. In this diary they talk about how you can use commanders to move your units, the promotions they get, siege warfare, and how the combat is now more immersive due to the concurrent battle animations on the battle field. Want to know more? Check our thread here.

As a note from yesterday’s live stream, it seems also Qing and Siam got confirmed, among a few other things. For more info please check here.