Monthly Archives: October 2023

Anno 1800: Free to play from Nov2 to Nov6

By | October 30, 2023

PCGames has just published an article called “If Cities: Skylines 2 didn’t float your boat, Anno 1800 is free for a week”.As the title indicates, the historical city builder “Anno 1800”, released in 2019, will be free to play from November 2 to November 6.The Anno series ranges back to the last millenium, and multiple very good builders… Read More »

Civ IV Hall of Fame Update

By | October 28, 2023

The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 16 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to jnebbe for the highest score of the update with a Tiny, Normal, Monarch, Domination game for 379,533 points.Noble Zarkon was the most active player during this update, submitting 6 games. Only one player was brave enough to take… Read More »

Millennia: Feature Breakdown – National Spirits

By | October 26, 2023

A new video about Millennia has been released.This video is about national spirits, essentially themes, which shape your nation, and give specific bonuses. So your nation will develop through the game to have a unique combiation of traits, which can determine your playstyle and make each game unique. Come join us here to discuss this video.

Old World update #115

By | October 25, 2023

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update gives you a new ability for zealot generals, regencies have been reworked, tile improvement recommendations can be disabled, and many more things. Discuss this update with us here (and read the full list of changes too). Old World is currently available… Read More »

Ara: History Untold – Dev Diary, Ep. 08 – Testing a 4X Game

By | October 24, 2023

Today, the developers of Ara: History Untold have released a dev diary about Q&A testing a 4X game.In this video they talk about what aspects to prioritize for testing, how the interconnection of mechanics make testing complex, how leaders and nations are balanced, the issue of land sharks and more. The source is here and you can discuss… Read More »

PCGamesN: Firaxis job advert for position with “wealth of knowledge about the Firaxis portfolio of titles, especially Civilization.”

By | October 23, 2023

PCGamesN has posted a new article called “New Civilization 7 details hinted by Firaxis job listing”.The advert rather obviously indicates that the next part of the series is in development (as we know), and that Firaxis this time has a rather long-term plan, trying to develop a marketing plan for the next game for up to 5 years.… Read More »

Colonization: New release of megamod “We The People”

By | October 23, 2023

The very popular Civ4: Colonization mod “We The People” has now been released in version 4.1. This version comes with, among other things, a new map size named “massive”, updates to the Russian and French translation and more background music. Check here for the latest release.

Humble Bundle: Sid Meier’s Ultimate Collection – available again

By | October 21, 2023

The Humble Bundle has made again the Sid Meier Bundle (repeat from last year), containing a lot of our favourite games!If you pay at least 14.20€, you get As other minor games included are the early games of Sid, Sid Meier’s Pirates, Sid Meier’s Railroads, Covert Action and the remakes of Ace Patrol, Sid Meier’s Ace Control and… Read More »