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hard-drive.net: Is Civilization VI Better Than Civilization V? The Numbers in the Titles Say Yes

By | August 15, 2023

The authors from hard-drive net have released an article, called “Is Civilization VI Better Than Civilization V? The Numbers in the Titles Say Yes”.Based on an in-depth analysis, with many hard facts and objective criteria underlying their endeavour, they have concluded that Civ6 is better than Civ5, because 6 > 5.They compare it to the critically acclaimed movie… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #226

By | August 1, 2023

We continue our summer GOTMs by going to a favourite holiday destination: Greece. This time you play as Alexander on a large continents map, on epic speed and on Prince level. You need to achieve a diplomatic victory, but all other victory types are enabled. You have until August 31 to unite the world. For more information please… Read More »

Can you make an anti-imperial empire game? The 4Xperts behind Civilization, Syphilisation and Victoria 3 discuss eXperimental 4X design

By | July 29, 2023

Eurogamer has published a new article with the title “Can you make an anti-imperial empire game? The 4Xperts behind Civilization, Syphilisation and Victoria 3 discuss eXperimental 4X design“.The mentioned “4Xperts” are Civ5’s Jon Shafer, along with Nikhil Murthy, the designer of Syphilisation, and Ryan Sumo, who is working at Paradox for Victoria 3 and Europa Universalis IV. And… 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 »

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 »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #223

By | June 15, 2023

With this Civ5 “Game Of The Month” we’re giving you a vacation on a nice island during the sunny summer days! You play as Suleiman of the Ottomans on a standard-size islands map on Emperor level. You need to go for a domination victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving one of the other victories as well.… Read More »

TechSpot: 30 Years of Civilization – Over 51 Million Units Sold and a Billion Hours Played

By | June 12, 2023

TechSpot has today published an article about the last 30 years of Civilization (which should be 32 years…).In this article, the author goes through the history of the Civilization franchise, how the first people playtested Civ1 for hours, the addition of modding in Civ2, Baba Yetu, and many other things. The author also doesn’t forget all the other… Read More »

Civilization 5 Hall of Fame: New Gauntlets

By | June 7, 2023

The Civ5 “Hall of Fame” is an ongoing competition, but we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. The team now has published the next 2 challenges for you: G-Major CXXXIV We challenge you to play the following game: You need to play a King-level game with Pacal of the Maya on a small… Read More »