Monthly Archives: February 2024

PolyCast 430: Historical Anecdotes

By | February 29, 2024
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The four-hundred-and-thirtieth episode of PolyCast, “Historical Anecdotes“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h04m03s | February Challenge of the Month: The Head of Cyrus– 00h15m04s | Experiences with Paradox’s Millenia Demo– 00h40m42s | Alpha Centauri… Read More »

Explorminate: The Top 4X Games of 2024(X)

By | February 28, 2024
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Explorminate has published a new videos, about the best 4X games to be expected.They start with how the 90s with Civ2 and MoO was the golden age of 4X, although 2023 also had a ton of good games, including the expansions for Old World and Humankind, GalCiv4, Spellforce and others. They then follow-up with the 5 most interesting… Read More »

Euronews: “AI models chose violence and escalated to nuclear strikes in simulated wargames”

By | February 27, 2024
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I do admit, these news are only very tangentially related to Civ6, but nevertheless interesting enough for us here: Nobody probably has not noticed the recent hype about AI, and how people try to use it for everything. Researchers from Cornell university have used different large language models (LLM) as agents in political scenarios and wargames. The models… Read More »

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #178

By | February 26, 2024
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And for March we get an early GOTM, and you might be eager to test this setup! You play as Mansa Musa of Mali, on a hot and wet standard-sized highlands map on Prince level. You get a disaster intensity of 2, but also a legendary start, and you play with Monopolies and Corporations. You need to win… Read More »

PolyCast 429: The Show Where We Talk About Millenia

By | February 24, 2024
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The four-hundred-and-twenty-ninth episode of PolyCast, “The Show Where We Talk About Millenia“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News – 00h03m42s | Humankind’s Geogre Sand Update Released– 00h13m33s | Revisiting the Robot Revolution Challenge (Briefly)– 00h16m01s… Read More »

Millennia: Release date, and more about ages!

By | February 23, 2024
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The latest info from Millennia gives us a lot of info about ages, but more importantly also information about the release: Millennia will be released on March 26 2024, and can already be pre-purchased. The standard version will cost 39.99€, and the deluxe version 59.99. The deluxe version will include two skins for early units, as well as… Read More »

New indie game release: Solium Infernum

By | February 23, 2024
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Prior this game has been described as “Doom meets Civilization”, and today you can see this yourself, as Solium Infernum has been released. The game is set in an underworld hellscape, where you battle turn-based battles with demons. The game also includes 8 single-player campaigns, and also must diplomacy and city-building, but it is right now not clear… Read More »

Civ6 Free to play (Feb 22-26 2024)

By | February 22, 2024
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The Civ6 Twitter account has announced that Civ6 will be free to play until Monday!This seems to apply to the Platinum version including all addons, so go and try!If you get the taste for it, then you can also get it at a discount right now, the base game costing 5.99€, the Platinum version 15.09€ and the Anthology… Read More »