The CivGive is a charity event, organized by various Streamers around TheCivShow.Last year the team managed to raise $42 000 for extralife, and $25 000 were matched by 2K Games.This year the team will be aiming at $75 000 in total, to contribute to GamesOutreach.org, which helps hospitalized children through games to make ther life in the hospital… Read More »
The podcast StudyingPixels has released a new episode: Games as Historical Problem Spaces (with Jeremiah McCall). In this episode Stefan Heinrich Simond, a games scholar from Marbug (Germany), discusses with video game historian Jeremia McCall from the Ohio State University, also know from the blog GamingThePast, about games as historical problem spaces. This means they both address the… Read More »
The four-hundred-and-eighth episode of PolyCast, “Why Do Anything When You Can Pillage?“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan” with first-time guest co-host CivMD. Topics for this episode include: Intro00h01m00s | Game Spinoff Ideas News00h05m58s | Humankind Announces “Together We Rule” Expansion Senate00h10m09s | CivMD’s Domination Strategy… Read More »
This month you’re getting a mystery GOTM! You play as Ghengis Khan of Mongolia on Emperor level, but all other settings are unknown. You must go for a Domination or Religious Victory, and you have until November 1 to finish this game. For all details, please see this thread.
And we are ready to give you another game to play! To honour the recent events, you will this time play as Victoria of England on a standard size small continents map on Deity. You get a low sea level and a disaster intensity of 4, and in addition you need to go for culture victory. You can… Read More »
Play Civilization VI: Platinum Edition for FREE on Steam now until September 19 at 10 AM PT. You could also buy it now at 91% off at just $14.72! Check it out! Discuss this sale in our forum here.
The four-hundred-and-seven episode of PolyCast, “They Deleted Our Topic!“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: Intro00h01m00s | Flooding in the US News00h03m30s | UnCiv Released for Mobile Platforms Forum Talk00h07m52s | Should There Be A Minimum City Revolt Time?00h15m31s… Read More »
The Humble Bundle currently has a sale for all the big 2K games. Most interesting for us are obviously Civ6, but as strategy gamers here we probably also fancy all the XCOM titles as well as Railroad Tycoon titles. This bundle also contains other titles of extremely high quality, e.g. the Bioshock collection or Mafia collection. To get… Read More »