The developers of Ara: History Untold have published a new blog post about the update on their roads, to make them more lively and organic looking. You can find the screenshots here, and discuss them in our forum here.
The Civ4 Hall Of Fame has again gotten an update! New players have been inaugurated in our everlasting Hall Of Civ Fame!
Congratulations to Peteyboy for the highest score of the update with a Small, Epic, Monarch, Domination game for 128,048 points.
SittinDown was the most active player during this update, submitting 4 games.
tsvyatkov was the most active player during this update, submitting 4 games.
Firmlife got a number 1 position with a 700 BC, Small, Epic, Monarch, Domination game for 115,186 points.
A new G-Major is now also available. This time we want you to play a tiny marathon game on Prince level, playing as not-Inca and going for a space victory (among other restrictions). For more information please see here.
The information for the next Tacticon is out!
The Tacticon is an online strategy convention, which features talks (about e.g. the Art Of War), streams, new demos for interesting strategy titles, and also sales.
This year 100+ titles will be present, including Endless Dungeon, and many others.
The sale will include interesting titles like Timberborn, Lords of Rigel, Terra Invicta, the Wandering Village, and also again many more.
Tacticon is organized by FireSquidGames and HoodedHorse, who also published Old World (so we do expect Soren Johnson to be present too).
You can find the Tacticon press release here, the website here, and the steam event (which will list the sales) here. You can also obviously discuss the Tacticon with us in our forum here.
Here at CivFanatics we have the long tradition of the “Hall Of Fame”: You can submit us your played savegames, and if you make a high score in a certain category, you will be listed in our “Hall Of Fame” (certain rules apply though).
The team has now put together 2 new challenges, for you to master: The G-Major CXXXIII and the G-Minor CCVI.
The G-Major CXXXIII requires you to play with the BNW expansion. We are looking for a game on a tiny map with tilted axis on Emperor level as Siam on epic speed, with a cultural victory. For more information please see here.
The G-Minor CCVI also requires BNW. We are looking for a game on a small inland sea map on quick speed on King level as Babylon. This time we want to have a diplomatic victory. For more information please see here.
As you know, we like a game called “Civilization”. Sometimes we also like some other games, but even better if they also have a “civ” in it! Recently we stumbled upon the game “PocketCiv“, thanks to their Twitter account. As you can guess from the title, it’s a neat and small civ-like game, staying more in the ancient setting and based on the boardgame of the same name. It’s overall not as big as our beloved Civilization, but more focused. It’s a pocket version, if you like 
.
BMCGames, the devs of PocketCiv, noticed that we noticed them, so they came over to CFC and offered us a few keys to hand out to our members.
We are therefore doing a small raffle, but you need to tell us one thing:
We know that you like adding things to Civ, like more nations, leaders, wonders, etc. Now tell us one thing, which you would like to have less of in Civ, and win one out of 3 copies of PocketCiv. Let us know here.
The raffle runs for 7 days, afterwards the winners will be determined by a random roll.
Please note that the game is in early access and might still change. Please also note that the guys bribed us with a few steam keys for the CFC staff too.
The four-hundred-and-thirteenth episode of PolyCast, “Christmas Special?“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus. Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:
News
– 00h02m57s | The Release of Leader Pack 1
– 00h17m18s | The Civ Give 2022
– 00h22m13s | Ed Beach Interview with wccftech
– 00h31m51s | Ara-History Untold Dev Diaries Released.
– 00h49m28s | Master of Magic Remake Released.
– 00h54m58s | Leader Pack 2 Leaders Previewed
– 01h02m56s | Leader Pack 2 Developer Livestream and Patch Notes Discussion
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on December 17, 2022.
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.
Today Amplitude has released a new DLC for Humankind! This new DLC contains 6 new wonders, like the Colosseum or the Pentagon, and is free until May 10!
At the same time Humankind is on sale, with a 80% discount down to 9.99!
Today you also get the next update for Humankind, the Vauban update. This update adds the Steam workshop, gives adjacency bonuses to cultural wonders, a new cultural wonder, and AI improvements.
Come to discuss these news in our thread here.
Thanks to Saxo Grammaticus for these news :).
Thanks to our Civ3 veterans we are also still running the “Game Of The Month” for Civ3! As usual, you get 2 GOTMs, one for the expansion “Play The World”, and one for “Conquests”.
In the GOTM #190 for “Play The World” you play as Babylon on a standard size map on Monarch level. Everything is a secret, besides the raging barbarians, that will be clear to you. You have until June 30 to finish this game, and you can find all the details here.
For the GOTM #163 for “Conquests” you play as Japan on a standard size continents map with 70% ocean on Emperor level. The barbarians are calm, but your enemies are already known. Also here you can take the challenge until June 30, and all the remaining information is in this thread.