Monthly Archives: January 2022

IGN: Civilization’s Past and Future, As Told By Its Lead Designers

By | January 30, 2022

IGN has just published an interview with some of the most important people in Civ history: Soren Johnson, Jon Shafer, Ed Beach and Anton Strenger, who each gave a bit of new direction for Civ.They talk in the interview about how they started with Civ, their most-liked additions to Civ, and how they see Civ in the whole… Read More »

GOG Chinese New Year sales: Civ3+4 on sale

By | January 30, 2022

GOG is having a sale for the Chinese new year, and obviously some of our most beloved titles are on sale! The most important are: Civilization 3 for 1.29€ Civilization 4 complete for 5€ The Original Colonization for 1.59€ Alpha Centauri for 1.39€ Call To Power 2 for 3.49€ The new years sale is very big, and many… Read More »

CivFanatics through the ages

By | January 29, 2022

CivFanatics is in the meantime a very old website, with an age of over 20 years. In all this time we have gone through many changes, including style. If you want to see how we looked once upon a time, in our different eras, have a look at the thread which our user blake00 put together, showing how… Read More »

Request for help: Help us find old scenarios/mods

By | January 27, 2022

We are currently in the middle of restoring and updating our download database, and we need your help! Do you have lots of old mods, scenarios and other pieces from CivFanatics and other sources on the web on your hard drive? Then help us! We are currently restoring Civ2 and Civ4: Col items, and will soon get to… Read More »

QuarterToThree: Old World best game of 2021

By | January 27, 2022

Tom Chick, the owner of QuarterToThree, has released his personal top 10 list of games in 2021. The list includes hits like Forza Horizon 5, indie hits like Wildermyth, and the #1 is our personal favourite: Old World! You can have a look at the whole list at QuarterToThree here. Discuss this list in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-best-game-of-2021-list-by-quarter-to-three.675085/

Expeditions: Rome released

By | January 26, 2022

The Expedition series is probably of interest for some of our players, therefore this news item: Expeditions: Rome is a turn-based roleplaying game, set in Roman times, and was just released. It features turn-based tactical combats, as well as larger-scale strategic battles. If you are interested, there is a free demo available on Steam too. Download the demo… Read More »

The Rock to make new video game movie – will it be a civ movie?

By | January 26, 2022

Okay, okay, this is obviously silly.There is no indication right now that it could be a Civ movie, but who knows?What would that anyways look like? Discuss the possibility of a Civ movie with “The Rock” in our forum here. Original news: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/t…but-he-wont-say-which-franchise/1100-6499929/ Picture by Matthew Kean, past Civ lead, from here: https://twitter.com/digisculp/status/1486089899686117380

Improvised Civ6 soundtrack: The English theme

By | January 25, 2022

The musician Kevin Dixon has improvised the Civ6 theme of the English. If you want to hear the song “Scarborough Fair” for the different Civ6 ages, then hit the play button ;). Follow Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/boomerangkevin/status/1484739002666258433 Discuss this video in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/improvised-civ6-soundtrack-the-english-theme.675059/