Monthly Archives: October 2021

Old World patch #74, October 13

By | October 14, 2021

The developers of Old World have released a new patch, which includes 14 new events, performance improvements, and other balance changes and bug fixes. You can find the whole log here: https://mohawkgames.com/2021/10/13/old-world-update-74/ Discuss this patch in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-74-october-13.673702/

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #222

By | October 11, 2021

The “Game Of The Month” is a competition series organized by a very dedicated team here at Civ-fanatics, to bring you each month an exciting game. Play the same initial game as your fellow players, and see if you can beat them! This month, you will start as Louis XIV of France on Noble level on a standard… Read More »

Blizzard and Activision sale on GOG: Call To Power II and historical city builders

By | October 11, 2021

GOG has currently a sale on various games from Blizzard and Activision. The main item of interest for us Civ-fanatics is the old “Call To Power 2” game, which had “Civilization” scraped from its name due to licensing rights, but is otherwise a very civ-like game and worth a look for fans of old games. “Call To Power… Read More »

Play the new Civilization 6 “Game Of The Month” #120

By | October 9, 2021

The “Game Of The Month” is a challenge for every Civ player: Take a pre-set savegame, play your best game, and send in the end result to see if you’re the best Civ-fanatic here! This time you play as Mvemba a Nzinga of the Kongo on Prince level on a standars size continents map. You have time until… Read More »

Old World designer notes #10: Soren Johnson on diplomacy

By | October 8, 2021

Soren Johnson has published another blog post about the development of Old World, this time discussing diplomacy. He talks about how the systems in Civ3 and Civ4 were independently flawed: In Civ3 the AIs would simply trade techs with each other no matter what, letting them get ahead of the player. In Civ4, this was fixed, but your… Read More »

Kotaku: What’s A 4X Game, And Why Do They Rule?

By | October 8, 2021

Kotaku has made a video about our most beloved genre: The 4X games. In this video, they go quickly back to the beginning of 4X with Master Of Orion 1, and then describe a bit the features which all these games have. The video is not very in-depth, but if you need to convince someone else why these… Read More »

PCGamesN: Old World will come to Steam and GOG in spring, also expansion announced

By | October 7, 2021

PCGamesN has an article today, telling that Old World will come to both Steam and GOG in spring, while it is still exclusive to the Epic store right now. The article also says that an addon will follow, although it says that there is nothing known besides that there will be an “expansion campaign”. Read the article from… Read More »

Old World patch #73, October 6

By | October 6, 2021

The creators of Old World have released a new patch. This update includes 7 new events, and otherwise mostly balancing and graphical changes. The full change log can be found here: https://mohawkgames.com/2021/10/06/old-world-update-73/ Discuss this patch in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-73-october-6.673586/