2K games support hack, virus emails sent

By | September 23, 2022

In short: 2K reports that one of the vendors for their support was breached. The hackers sent out emails to people who had interactions with the 2K support, with a malicious link in it (or trojan attachment, depending on source). If you recently received an email from 2K which you did not expect and you clicked a link in it/downloaded an attachment, then you might be in trouble, and should do the general security precautions like changing your passwords.

For discussions about this please see here.

TactiCon Schedule

By | September 21, 2022

And there is now a schedule for the TactiCon!
The program includes talks about strategy games and publishing. Among the participants will be Soren and Leyla Johnson, the former being the Civ3 and 4 lead designer, and they both worked together on Old World. Tim Bender from their publisher Hooded Horse will be participating in a talk about how to publish games. Other talks include the future of tactical games, and how to balance depth versus the decision making freedom of the players.

There will be various streamers, e.g. kormaktv, who will also be streaming related to TactiCon, see his schedule here.

Discuss TactiCon with us here!

Humankind scenario #3: Against the Odds

By | September 20, 2022

Amplitude, the developers of Humankind, present you the next event: The scenario “Against the Odds”. This event runs from September 20 to October 18, and it challenges you to catch up with far more advanced enemies, who are already ahead of you (between ancient era to industrial era in the new world) while you are still in the neolithic era.

For more details read the full announcement at Games2Gether, or discuss this challenge in our forum here.

Tacticon: Digital strategy event on Steam, September 22-26

By | September 18, 2022

Hooded Horse, the publisher of Old World and another range of strategy games, together with FireSquid, the developers of the 4X game “Great House Of Calderia”, are organizing Tacticon, a digital strategy even on Steam, happening September 22-26.

This event will cover various presentations about strategy games, and will be featuring more than 100 different games, released and unreleased.

If you’re interested in Humankind, Ozymandias, Great House of Calderia, Old World, or others, then you should follow this event.

For a list of covered games see here, and stay tuned for the actual event link :).

Discuss Tacticon with us here.

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #143

By | September 16, 2022

And we are ready to give you another game to play! To honour the recent events, you will this time play as Victoria of England on a standard size small continents map on Deity. You get a low sea level and a disaster intensity of 4, and in addition you need to go for culture victory. You can conquer the Victorian era until October 15!

For all other info, please see this thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/6otm143-announcement.679002/

New Civilization merchandise available

By | September 15, 2022

To celebrate another Civ birthday, 2K has now released more merchandise for the Civilization franchise! You can now buy a 30 years anniversary hoodie for €59.99, a new Civilization T-shirt for 29.99€ and a notebook for 24.99€.

You can find these items for sale in the 2K shop. Currently there is also a sweepstake for this new merchandise set on Twitter.

Discuss this new merchandise in our forum here.

CIV is FREE TO PLAY all weekend (until September 18) and 91% Off

By | September 15, 2022

Play Civilization VI: Platinum Edition for FREE on Steam now until September 19 at 10 AM PT. You could also buy it now at 91% off at just $14.72! Check it out!

Discuss this sale in our forum here.

Europa Universalis IV: Free to play until Sept 15, and 75% off!

By | September 12, 2022

Paradox is a producer of a range of 4X games, which also have a big following in the Civ community, despite actually not being turn based.

One of their latest games, Europe Universalis IV, is currently free to play until September 15! In case you can’t get enough within the remaining days, the base game is also 75% off, costing only 9.99€ right now!

You can find this sale here, and discuss it in our forum here.