Yearly Archives: 2023

IGN: 2K Reveals Civilization Mobile Game, Moves to Calm Concern It May Impact Civilization 7

By | December 6, 2023

Fresh news from IGN, discuss with us here. The summary of the news article is that an already existing mobile game called “Conquests and Alliances”, a mobile 4X game, is being re-branded as “Civilization: Eras & Allies”. This does not affect the main work on the next Civilization title, which by a Firaxis spokesperson is explicitely not called… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Gmae Of The Month” #234

By | December 5, 2023

And obviously we also have a new Civ5 GOTM! This time you play as Ahmad Al-Mansur of Morocco on a standard size fractal map on Emperor level. You need to win via a science victory, but you also most prevent all other civs from achieving another type of victory. See if you can get to the Islaminc Golden… Read More »

On Being Stuck in Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Promise of Freedom in Historical Games

By | December 5, 2023

The Value Foundation, an academic research foundation focusing on research on gaming, has posted on Twitter that 2 researchers from Leiden University have published a new research manuscript about Civilization! The research is featured in the journal of digital games and associated phenomena (DIGRA), and titled “On Being Stuck in Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Promise of Freedom in… Read More »

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #172

By | December 4, 2023

For our Civ6 “Game Of The Month” we are setting a christmas-y theme! You play as Victoria (Age Of Steam) on a hot and arid standard size Seven Seas map on King level. You have abundant resources, a legendary start, and you play with monopolies and corporations. The science victory is a must, and it will definitely show… Read More »

Millennia Developer Diary – Economy Part One

By | November 30, 2023

We got another developer diary from the new Paradox game Millennia!This time the diary is about the economy in the game. The devs explain that many things are managed on a regional level, similar to the cities of civ, like food and health, whereas others are managed more on a global level. In total where will be 130… Read More »

Civ IV Hall of Fame Update

By | November 29, 2023

The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 29 games were accepted since the previous update. Congratulations to shulec for the highest score of the update with a Small, Epic, Monarch, Space Colony game for 193,742 points.ajw2255 was the most active player during this update, submitting 8 games. Only 2 players were brave enough to take… Read More »

Ara: History Untold: Dev Diary, Ep. 11 – Nitrous Engine

By | November 26, 2023

And we are now at the 11th dev diary for Ara: History Untold.In this episode the devs talk about the game engine used in Ara, thatthis game studio actually started in a basement, that they saw the need for their own engine to better use the existing hardware (like multiple CPUs) so that more complex games could be… Read More »

LT81 – Next FreeCiv Longturn game set to start in a few days

By | November 25, 2023

The 81st installment of the FreeCiv Longturn game series set to start in a few days. Longturn is a 20 year old FreeCiv sub-community running one-turn-per-day games, where unlike a regular multiplayer game, their server is always running and players only need to log in once per day at their leisure. Usually the number of players is 10-30+… Read More »