New leader first look for Jose Rizal, and Civ World Summit

By | January 23, 2025

Today Firaxis has officially revealed another leader to us, Jose Rizal. He is cultural and diplomatic leader with a starting bias for tropical tiles. He gains additional gold and culture from events, and has a positive attitude to other rather diplomatic leaders. For more info check the thread here. Firaxis has also announced the Civ World Summit on… Read More »

Endless Legend 2 announced!

By | January 23, 2025

Amplitude has today announced the development of Endless Legend 2!Like the first game, also the second part is a turn-based fantasy 4X game.You can again choose from diverse fantasy folks to conquer the Endless universe and fight ancient evil gods.It seems an insider program will also be available, for people who want to playtest and have early looks.Also… Read More »

Hooded Horse publisher sale

By | January 23, 2025

It seems that Hooded Horse currently has a Steam sale!Right now Old World is 75% off, for only 9.99 (until Feb 1).Other titles which are potentially of interest are: Have a look at these sales, you might find something interesting among them. Join us here if you want to discuss them.

Next livestream on January 30, and new archeology video

By | January 22, 2025

Firaxis has announced the next Civ7 livestream, which will happen on January 30 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 5PM GMT / 7PM CEST to the Firaxis Games Twitch Channel or the Civilization YouTube Channel. A new civ will be shown, we will get to see some MP, and the devs will be talking about which DLCs… Read More »

New civ game guide: Buganda

By | January 21, 2025

Today Firaxis has released the next game guide, this time for Buganda. Buganda is a cultural and expansionist civ with a starting bias for tropical and lake tiles. Nearly all of their attributes, civic trees, unique units and wonder give boni from either lakes or from pillaging. Do you want to know more details? Then check out our… Read More »

New indie game release: Yield! Fall Of Rome

By | January 21, 2025

Today another interesting indie game has been released (into early release): “Yield! Fall Of Rome“.As many games in this forum, also this is a turn-based 4X game set on a hex field.It covers a time era which is not that common in 4X games, but still very interesting: The time after the fall of Rome.In this game you… Read More »

Check the new civ and leader ability comparison chart for Civ7!

By | January 20, 2025

Our user seek has put together some very nice charts comparing and showing the abilities of the currently known civs and leaders. Do you want to check which of them fit best together and to your playstyle? Have a look here!

Spillhistorie.no: Q&A with: Michael Haire, former artistic director at MicroProse

By | January 18, 2025

The Norwegian website Spillhistorie.no, a retrogaming website, has interviewed Michael Haire, the former artistic director of Microprose, who worked on Civ1+2 and Alpha Centauri, among other titles. In this interview he describes how Microprose started up, that an art department for Civ1 was a big leap in these old computer game days, and that MicroProse being bought by… Read More »