With this Civ5 “Game Of The Month” we’re giving you a vacation on a nice island during the sunny summer days! You play as Suleiman of the Ottomans on a standard-size islands map on Emperor level. You need to go for a domination victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving one of the other victories as well.… Read More »
Most people here probably already know the grand strategy games from Paradox.These games are real-time strategy games where you manage your empire, build armies and conduct diplomacy.One of them, the 11 years old Crusader Kings II is currently free on GOG, so if you feel the urge for more 4X, then go and download it right now. Discuss… Read More »
Firesquid Games, an indy publisher focused on strategy games, is currently looking for playtesters for 3 of their upcoming games, and all 3 are of interest to the Civ-Fanatics audience! This announcement was posted via the FireSquid Twitter account, and you can sign up here to be selected as a playtester. You can discuss this playtest with us… Read More »
TechSpot has today published an article about the last 30 years of Civilization (which should be 32 years…).In this article, the author goes through the history of the Civilization franchise, how the first people playtested Civ1 for hours, the addition of modding in Civ2, Baba Yetu, and many other things. The author also doesn’t forget all the other… Read More »
The four-hundred-and-seventeenth episode of PolyCast, “Strategy Game Nostalgia“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus. Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: Intro– 00h01m00s | Wing Dings, Dingbats, and DinkusesNews– 00h04m48s | Firaxis Games Studio News and Civilization 7 Soft Reveal– 00h12m22s | Leaders of the Sahara… Read More »
The Civ5 “Hall of Fame” is an ongoing competition, but we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. The team now has published the next 2 challenges for you: G-Major CXXXIV We challenge you to play the following game: You need to play a King-level game with Pacal of the Maya on a small… Read More »
Fields of Glory II is a historical turn-based tactics game.It is a war game, covering the Roman era from before Christ, allowing you to fight battles in various places over Europe.The base game is currently for free on Steam, until June 8, 9 AM.The DLCs are not included, but are currently also heavily discounted.This news item was discovered… Read More »
And we’ll continue also through summer with a new monthly game for you! In this Civ6 GOTM you play as Suleiman of the Ottomans on a standard size small continents map on King level. There are abundant resources, but disasters are abundant as well! You need to achieve a scientific victory, while preventing all other civs from achieving… Read More »