Civ IV Hall of Fame Update

By | January 3, 2025

Our eternal Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 9 games were accepted since the previous update.

Congratulations to nocho for the highest score of the update with a Tiny, Marathon, Emperor, Space Colony game for 539,238 points.

nocho and fizbankovi were the most active players during this update, submitting 2 games each.

Only one player was brave enough to take on Deity this update:

  • fizbankovi – 1750 AD, Standard, Normal, Deity, Domination game for 189,542 points.​
  • fizbankovi – 1822 AD, Standard, Normal, Deity, Diplomatic game for 95,867 points.​

​New Number One Entries:

A number of players gained number one positions:
– Lcpl Jack Jones with a 2050 AD, Large, Epic, Immortal, Time game for 18,758 points.
– nocho with a 1374 AD, Tiny, Marathon, Emperor, Space Colony game for 539,238 points.
– Alexfin with a 1160 AD, Standard, Normal, Prince, Cultural game for 91,118 points.
– donsig with a 2050 AD, Small, Quick, Settler, Time game for 7,115 points.
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Gauntlet Updates

G-Major 192
Congratulations to nocho for winning this with a score of 440,603 followed by Lcpl Jack Jones with 108,421 and Noble Zarkon on 13,970.

G-Minor 280
Congratulations to nocho for winning this with a date of 1442AD followed very closely by Conquistador 63 in 1454AD and then zbgayumn in 1897AD.

If you want to congratulate the winners, then join us here.

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #189

By | January 1, 2025

We also start the new year of 2025 with a new challenge for you to play! In this Civ6 GOTM you play Yongle of China on a standard size hot and wet Continents & Islands map with low sea level on Prince difficulty. You get a legendary start, Barbarian Clans, Monopolies & Corporations, and you need to use this setup for a scientific victory. As usual you get one month time until February 1. For all the details please check this thread.

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.

From The Staff At CFC

By | December 25, 2024

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.

Civ7: Redwood Forest Natural Wonder video

By | December 21, 2024

Firaxis has released another short video, this time about one of the natural wonders, the Redwood Foreset. The ingame wonder reaches over 3 tiles, and will give quite some massive yield gain. Check out our discussion here.

Holiday greetings from Firaxis

By | December 20, 2024

Firaxis has posted holiday greetings over on Twitter, and now we wonder if there is something maybe hidden in the picture ;). If you want to join in on the greetings, or deeply analyze the picture, then join 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 ;).