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Civ Avatars Are Back!

By | November 13, 2016

All Civ avatars are brought back and available for selection in the Avatar Gallery on the forums! In total there are 945 avatars available. Note that this feature doesn’t support categories so all the avatars are sorted by file name. Check them out!

HTTPS Enabled

By | November 12, 2016

To make the site more secure, we have installed SSL certificates and enabled HTTPS for both the main site and forums. This ensures all communications between your browser and CivFanatics website are encrypted and cannot be intercepted. We have also implemented URL re-writes so that visitors who clicked on HTTP links will automatically get redirected to the HTTPS… Read More »

TurnCast Episode 77: “Agree to Disagree”

By | November 12, 2016

Common ground. Regular players Daniel “DanQ” Quick, ”Makahlua” and ”UberMarklar” are accompanied by fellow co-operative Civilization Vmultiplayer players in the seventy-seventh episode of TurnCast (TC). Entitled “Agree to Disagree“, its runtime is 09m59s. Snippets include but are not limited to feel bad, crazy talk, forgot it, stopped unexpectedly and funny now. TurnCast is the third spin-off of the… Read More »

PolyCast Episode 269 Topics List

By | November 10, 2016

This Saturday, November 12th, 2016 is to see the twenty-third recording of Civilization strategy podcast PolyCast‘s tenth season. Beginning at 12PM ET North America (timezone converter), Episode 269’s topics list is set as follows: News Civilization VI Tops “1 Million “Players” [Facebook | VG247] CivVI Released on Mac, Linux Possibility [Twitter | CivFanatics | InfoWorld] CivVI Enters eSports [Team Liquid… Read More »

One More Turn Episode 506: “Over Rated”

By | November 9, 2016

Assertion leads to manipulation. The sixth episode of dramedy podcast [u]One More Turn[/u]’s ([u]OMT[/u]) fifth season [url=http://onemoreturn.net/episodes5.php#episode506]is now available[/url]. Entitled “Over Rated”, it has a runtime of 08m45s. A story set in the near future, [u]OMT[/u] features geeks deal with non-geeky problems. One can [url=https://twitter.com/onemoreturnshow]follow the show[/url] on Twitter and [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/onemoreturnshow]check out[/url] its YouTube channel for caption capability.… Read More »

PolyCast Episode 268: “Just Jump In”

By | November 5, 2016

Get started. The two-hundred-and-sixty-eighth episode of [url=http://thepolycast.net/polycast]PolyCast[/url], “[url=http://thepolycast.net/polycast/season10.php#episode268]Just Jump In[/url]”, features regular co-hosts [url=http://apolyton.net/member.php/2-DanQ]Daniel “DanQ” Quick[/url], [url=http://apolyton.net/member.php/22677-Makahlua]Stephanie “Makahlua”[/url] and [url=https://www.youtube.com/user/SBFMadDjinn]”MadDjinn”[/url] with twelve rotating guests who have previously appeared on the show at least once. Celebrating the release of [i]Civilization VI[/i], it carries an extended runtime of 85m05s. The rotation of guests is as follows: – [i]07m39s[/i] | [b]Guest… Read More »

One More Turn Episode 505: “Relative Separation”

By | November 2, 2016

New wrinkles open old wounds. The fifth episode of dramedy podcast [u]One More Turn[/u]’s ([u]OMT[/u]) fifth season [url=http://onemoreturn.net/episodes5.php#episode505]is now available[/url]. Entitled “Relative Separation”, it has a runtime of 09m34s. A story set in the near future, [u]OMT[/u] features geeks deal with non-geeky problems. One can [url=https://twitter.com/onemoreturnshow]follow the show[/url] on Twitter and [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/onemoreturnshow]check out[/url] its YouTube channel for caption… Read More »

Team Liquid Civilization Team Announced

By | October 22, 2016

The professional gaming organization, Team Liquid, has marked the release of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI by announcing a Civilization Team, headed by multiplayer stalwart MrGameTheory. Team Liquid noted that they were, “proud to announce the creation of our Civilization Team and an initiative to launch Civilization VI into the world of competitive esports,” and stated that, “We’ll be… Read More »