Monthly Archives: January 2023

The Sacred And The Profane – new DLC for Old World – On steam, Epic and GoG Jan 16th

By | January 13, 2023

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have announced the second DLC for their game: The Sacred and the Profane. This expansion will add more of the important features of the base game, like characters and events, and will expand the religion theme, as hinted in the title. The expansion will be available on all the 3 major… Read More »

Civilization 6 Leader Pass: Introducing the Rulers of China

By | January 12, 2023

The third leader packages for the Civilization 6 Leader Pass has been announced: The Rulers Of China. This leader pack will feature the Yongle emperor, Wu Zetian and Qin Shi Huang. The release is scheduled for January 19, in time for the Chinese new year. If you want to discuss this leader pack this us, please head to… Read More »

Old World update #103

By | January 12, 2023

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things, bug fixes, AI changes (e.g. builds less forts) and the addition of negative discontent. Discuss this update with us here. Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.

Ara: History Untold – Technical Alpha 2 to come

By | January 11, 2023

Ara: History Untold is another hot contender for best upcoming Civilization-like game. The developers have now concluded the first alpha phase of the game, and are incorporating the feedback into the game. They have also announced that a second technical alpha will come soon. If you want to join this alpha, you first need to join the Xbox… Read More »

WarGamer.com: The best 4x games on PC

By | January 10, 2023

WarGamer.com, a site dedicated to tabletop and war games, has published a list of the best 4X games for PC.As it has to be, despite it’s age, Civilization 6 is still on the list, together with one of our other favourites, Old World. They point out Old World’s interesting order system, as well as Civ’s ever expanding scope… Read More »

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #150

By | January 10, 2023

And also the Civilization 6 GOTM continues into the new year! In the first game of 2023 you play as Gilgamesh of Sumeria on a standard size arid and cold lakes map with sparse resources. You need to achieve a domination or religious victory, and you have time until February 2. For all details please check this thread.

GamesRadar: Jake Solomon on his journey from underqualified graphics programmer to master strategist

By | January 9, 2023

GamesRadar has published a news article about Jake Solomon, one of the pillars of Firaxis. Over his carreer he has worked on Civilzation 3, Civilization Revolution, the XCOM titles and the recently published Midnight Suns. Despite having been at Firaxis for ages, he describes himself not as a Civ guy. He worked closely with Sid Meier and Soren… Read More »

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #246

By | January 8, 2023

New year, new GOTM! This Game Of The Month has already started during Christmas, but there is still plenty time to help out Santa and his elves! In this GOTM you play Santa (well, actually the Vikings) on a normal size, but heavily modified Earth2 map on Noble level with cold climate. You start with 2 reindeer (okay,… Read More »