Monthly Archives: July 2023

TurnBasedLovers: Top 20 Modern Turn-Based Strategy Games to Play in 2023

By | July 19, 2023

TurnBasedLovers has published another article/video, which is interesting to the CFC community, called “Top 20 Modern Turn-Based Strategy Games to Play in 2023“. The authors have made a list of interesting turn-based games from the last year, with no particular order in them, but all interesting.For the 4X fans among us, there is plenty of fodder, as they… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #225

By | July 15, 2023

Also for this “Game Of The Month” we give you a summer feeling with a nice beach scenario! You play as Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon on a standard size inland sea map on Deity level. You need to strive for a science victory, but at the same time you must prevent all other civs from reaching another victory. The… Read More »

GameHistoryOrg: 87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games

By | July 11, 2023

The video game history foundation has posted an article, which is not about Civ1 or Civ2, but still in the current context very relevant. The article describes that 87% of historic video games (range 1960-2009) are currently not available at all. While many games can be bought on online platforms like Steam or GoG, the vast majority, nearly… Read More »

Old World update #110

By | July 6, 2023

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things like bugfixes and performance improvements some changes to MP like allowing players to change midgame when loading a save, and tribes and AI nations can now also raze cities. Discuss this update with us here (and read… Read More »

The Civ4 “Hall Of Fame” has been upated

By | July 5, 2023

The Civ4 Hall Of Fame has again gotten an update! New players have been inaugurated in our everlasting Hall Of Civ Fame! You can find the whole overview in this thread! 14 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to jnebbe for the highest score of the update with a Huge, Normal, Emperor, Domination game for 406,949… Read More »

Techspot: A Chat With Video Game Composer Christopher Tin

By | July 4, 2023

Techspot has published an interview with Christopher Tin about his work, how he got to designing the music of Civ4, and how this has kick-started his career. In the interview he mentions that Civ was his dream job, with the right combination of elements which interest him, and that there is probably no other game he’d have liked… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #224

By | July 3, 2023

And for the June game of the Civ5 “Game Of The Month” we also get you a culture vacation. You play as Enrico Dandolo of Venice on a standard size pangaea map on Immortal level. You need to go for a culture victory, but all other victories are enabled, so you need to make sure that no AI… Read More »

Steam Summer Sale, with Civ6 and many other games

By | July 2, 2023

The Steam Summer Sale is on! As most important title Civ6 is on sale, with a 90% discount, down to 5.99€, with also the Anthology and Platinum being discounted by 86% and 91%. Obviously, besides the Civ games there is a lot more on sale, e.g. Old World is discounted, the Total War Franchise has various titles on… Read More »