Category Archives: General

General news items

TheCivGive2021: Join us, watch the stream (Dec 19, 12 PM PST/3 PM EST/9 PM CET)

By | December 18, 2021

It is happening today! The final of TheCivGive2021! All the streamers listed in the picture banded together to raise $50 000 to support children’s hospitals. Currently the count is at more than $18 000, and 2K themselves, the publisher of the Civilization series, has pledged to match up to $25 000. So we need to raise less than… Read More »

Firaxis wishes you happy holidays

By | December 17, 2021

The CivGame Twitter account has posted the above artwork, and it looks magnificent! Leave your comments here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/firaxis-wishes-you-happy-holidays.674585/

TheCivGive2021: Now with guest appearances of the developers!

By | December 15, 2021

There are more interesting developments happening for TheCivGive2021! Not only that 2K has announced to match up to $25 000 in donations for this charity drive for children’s hospitals, now the final live stream on December 19 will also have guest appearances of the developers! Kevin Schulz, our most loved community manager, has announced on Twitter that we… Read More »

More autumn sales besides Old World and Civ6: Humankind, Sega, Slitherine, Argonwood, Paradox, Stardock

By | November 24, 2021

It’s sales time! Right now we already have a sale on Old World (10%), and Civ6 Anthology edition (65%). But besides this, more and more developers and publishers have started their autumn sales! Most important to the Civ community is the SEGA sale of Humankind, 20% off for 39.99€. The SEGA sale has many interesting games, e.g. Total… Read More »

PolyCast 393: Of Portugal and Feitorias

By | November 1, 2021

The three hundred-and-ninety-third episode of PolyCast, “Of Portugal and Feitorias“ 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: Forum Talk– 00h01m51s | Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley’s 2018 Speech to GDC– 00h07m26s | How Hard-coded is the Opening Gambit– 00h17m49s |… Read More »

Civilization’s 30th birthday: The winning poems #4

By | October 23, 2021

In addition to the 3 main prizes, we also had an additional poetry prize for our 30 years celebration. We unexpectedly got many excellent poetry submissions, which made this one picking harder. We selected the poem by our user Romegypt, who receives a rare Civilization 4 deluxe version and a merchandise package. His contribution exquisetly highlights the complications… Read More »

Civilization’s 30th birthday: The winning poems #2

By | October 21, 2021

We picked recently our winners of the birthday contest for Civilization, who all received a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a merchandise package. We now want to use this place to highlight these poems. The second poem, which are actually multiple senryus, have been submitted by our user Hinin, and show us… Read More »

Civilization’s 30th birthday: The winning poems #1

By | October 20, 2021

We picked recently our winners of the birthday contest for Civilization, who all received a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a merchandise package. We now want to use this place to highlight these poems. The first poem has been submitted by our user topsecret. It definitely captures the Civ atmosphere. “One day,… Read More »