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PolyCast 400: All’s Fair In Love and Civilization

By | August 15, 2022
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The four-hundredth episode of PolyCast, “All’s Fair In Love and Civilization“ is now available for streaming on https://thepolycast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: Community 00h01m55s | PolyCast’s 400th Show Retrospective News 00h29m01s | Soren Johnson Talks About Diplomacy in Civilization III  Forum Talk 00h41m03s | Is Civilization VI Worth Playing in 2022?00h46m40s | Is Civilization V Worth… Read More »

PolyCast 399: We Play Other Games, Too

By | August 12, 2022
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The three hundred-and-ninety-ninth episode of PolyCast, “We Play Other Games, Too“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News00h02m11s | Always Online Vulnerability: The Dark Souls Remote Execution Exploit and Civilization00h08m38s | Civilization IV Listed in The Games That Made Us Column.00h22m26s… Read More »

PolyCast 398: Scouts Don’t Count as Military

By | August 8, 2022
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The three hundred-and-ninety-eighth episode of PolyCast, “Scouts Don’t Count as Military“ 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: News00h02m11s | The 2K Launcher Updates Again and Disappoints Everyone00h09m41s | Civilization VI Works on Steam Deck?00h16m26s | 6 “New” Ways to… Read More »

PolyCast 397: We Had to Walk Uphill Both Ways

By | August 5, 2022
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The three hundred-and-ninety-seventh episode of PolyCast, “We Had to Walk Uphill Both Ways“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News00h02m11s | Cities: Skylines Modder Banned for Illicit Activities on Steam Workshop. Forum Talk00h07m47s | Several Civilization Developers Discuss Their… Read More »

PolyCast 396: Objective Performance Metrics for Civilization at School

By | August 1, 2022
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The three hundred-and-ninety-sixth episode of PolyCast, “Objective Performance Metrics for CIvlization at School“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include: News00h02m18s | Anton Strenger Leaves Firaxis Forum Talk00h13m28s | Lingering Questions About Civilization VI00h26m47s | Civilization and Humankind in the… Read More »

Site Upgrades are Coming (Completed)

By | July 14, 2022
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The Staff is planning to perform an upgrade to xenForo version 2 on 15/16 July. Along with this upgrade we will also be migrating the site to a new server, in the month afterwards. This upgrade will be performed by the xenForo Staff as we are moving to xenForo Cloud Services. During this process we will post updates… Read More »

10 Best PC Turn-Based Strategy Games to play in 2022

By | July 7, 2022
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TurnBasedLovers, a website which obviously deals with our favourite type of game, has released another overview what they deem to be the best current turn based games for 2022. Old World is probably already well known among the civ-fanatics, and is described as the following: Created by 4X veterans, Old World is the perfect blend of Civilization and… Read More »

The Grammy’s Will Now Include A Category For Best Video Game Soundtrack

By | June 12, 2022
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As noted by Christopher Tin on Twitter, the Grammy’s have added some new categories including a new category for video game soundtracks. To be precise: Best Score Soundtrack For Video Games And Other Interactive MediaRecognizes excellence in score soundtrack albums comprised predominately of original scores and created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current video game… Read More »