RockPaperShotgun: These are your 50 favourite strategy games of all time (with Civ1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and Alpha Centauri)

By | February 23, 2023
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RockPaperShotgun has published an article about the 50 favourite strategy games of all time, as voted by the community. As a community vote, there was no collapsing of a series to a single title, so Civ made it into the list with 5 titles (1, 2, 4, 5, 6), as well as Alpha Centauri. We wonder though how Civ3 was missed.
There seems to not have been other types of curation for this list, as e.g. StarCraft and it’s addon Brood War made it separately on it.
The article doesn’t forget to mention that sadly Civ1 and 2 cannot be purchased online right now.

An excerpt from the Civ5 part in the article:

DWDuck: Many strategic options from early to end game, all classes’ units are effective for something but not too many to make it difficult to learn. Can micro a small army with great affect or play defensively and manage the battle field at large. Awesome stuff!

Don: Gaming comfort food. You can play in multiple styles in excruciating micromanagement or just coast through and watch history unfold. I never tire of playing this game even if the end-game is a bit of a slog at times. Just boot up history again with a new map, a new leader, and new opponents. A classic that keeps getting better.

quarrel: One… more… turn…

Come and discuss this article with us here.

Streaming older Civs: Live streams for Civ3 and Civilization: Call To Power

By | February 22, 2023
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The Value Foundation, https://value-foundation.org/, a foundation associated with Leiden University, the Netherlands, will be streaming Civ3 regularly on Tuesday evenings, 21h CET (3 PM East Coast, Noon Pacific time). They do research on games and history, and have already last year regularly (Tuesday evenings) streamed Civ2, seems this year they’ll be playing Civ3.
The announcement is here on Twitter, and you can find the stream later on Twitch here. We have a discussion thread for these streams here.

Furthermore the streamer Axel will be streaming Civilization: Call To Power. Call To Power is an Activision game (so not developed by Firaxis, who does Civ) from 1999, which heavily relied on everything Civ, but it’s not an official Civ. The second part of the series even lost the “Civilization” in the name. If you’re curious about this old game, then check in this Thursday at 6:30 PM Eastern time (Half past midnight CET, 3:30 Pacific time) at his channel here. You can discuss his stream with us here.

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #153

By | February 21, 2023
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And it is time again to conquer the world! In this “Game Of The Month” you play as Ghengis Khan of Mongolia on a hot and wet lakes map with abundant resources on Immortal level. You will need to deal with barbarian clans, and you will need to win a domination victory, while preventing all other civs from reaching another victory. Time to make the Golden Horde finally platinum: March 15!

For more information, please see this thread.

FreeCiv 3.1 released

By | February 19, 2023
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The latest version of FreeCiv has been released. The current update includes a long list of technical as well as game improvements. Examples are a maximum player number of 500, changes to the bombardment capability based on the unit’s damage, some older rulesets have been eliminated, and way more. You can read the full list of changes here, and discuss this update with us here.

Civilization 6 Leader Pass Pack 4: Rulers of the Sahara released (Feb. 2023)

By | February 16, 2023
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The new Civ6 Leader Pack, Rulers of the Sahara, has been released. This pack includes Sundiata Keita of Mali, Ramses II of Egypt, and another persona for Cleoptra, the ptolemaic Cleopatra (also Egypt). Join us for the discussion of the new leaders and patch notes here.

Old World update #105

By | February 16, 2023
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Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things, a new map script, the bay map script (see image above), added more happiness, a rebalance of family bonuses, and various bug fixes. Discuss this update with us here.

Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.

Settle The World – A Colonization fan game for the Amiga

By | February 15, 2023
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Do you maybe still own an old Amiga, and you love 4X? Then we also found the right game for you! Settle The World (news link) is a Colonization-like game for the Amiga, and it just got updated! As Colonization, the game is a turn-based 4X game in which you settle the New World, buy settling towns, building roads, and trading. The game is still in development, and is focused on local multiplayer (due to lack of AI, it seems). So if you still have an Amiga (or an emulator), then check here, and join us for a discussion here.