Category Archives: Old World

Old World Update #98

By | October 6, 2022

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes a range of bug fixes, improvements to the Steam Deck performance, and balancing changes, e.g. you may use the ships of allied nations for your movement. For more details, please check our thread here. Old World is currently available in… Read More »

TactiCon Schedule

By | September 21, 2022

And there is now a schedule for the TactiCon!The program includes talks about strategy games and publishing. Among the participants will be Soren and Leyla Johnson, the former being the Civ3 and 4 lead designer, and they both worked together on Old World. Tim Bender from their publisher Hooded Horse will be participating in a talk about how… Read More »

Tacticon: Digital strategy event on Steam, September 22-26

By | September 18, 2022

Hooded Horse, the publisher of Old World and another range of strategy games, together with FireSquid, the developers of the 4X game “Great House Of Calderia”, are organizing Tacticon, a digital strategy even on Steam, happening September 22-26. This event will cover various presentations about strategy games, and will be featuring more than 100 different games, released and… Read More »

Old World 20% off on Steam until September 12

By | September 7, 2022

Old World is on sale! The base game currently costs 31.99€, with expansion 35.98€, and there’s also a pack of the publisher Hooded Horse, which includes Clanfolk (a colony builder) and Nebulous (a 3D space strategy game), for in total 71.96€. This sale goes until September 12.And there’s obviously also the demo, in case you’re undecided. Discuss this… Read More »

Play the very first Old World “Game Of The Month”

By | September 4, 2022

CivFanatics has a long standing tradition of the “Game Of The Month” (short: “GOTM”), where a team of fellow Civ-fanatics organizes new, challenging savegames for the community, to compete against each other. The goal here is not only to beat the game, but then to afterwards compare your approach to the approach of other players, and see who… Read More »

PolyCast 404: Podcast Not Found

By | August 29, 2022

The four-hundred-and-fourth episode of PolyCast, “Podcast Not Found“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Phil “TheMeInTeam”. Topics for this episode include: Community00h02m00s | DanQ is Now a Father News00h05m17s | FreeCiv Reaches Version 3.000h08m09s | Sid Meier Warns About Monetization In Gaming Forum Talk00h24m38s | Five Second Turn… Read More »

PolyCast 402: Straight Into The Salt

By | August 22, 2022

The four-hundred-and-second episode of PolyCast, “Straight Into the Salt“ 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: News00h01m06s | Soren Johnson’s Old World Released on PC One Year Late00h02m43s | Remembering Those Who Have Left Us Forum Talk00h06m20s | The Evolution… Read More »

Podcast on Meena Shamaly singing for Old World

By | August 13, 2022

The singer Meena Shamaly sang for some of Christopher Tin’s songs in Old World (e.g. the one linked above).He got interviewed by the podcast Level With Emily Resse, and talked about his singing and work as consultant for Arabic music in Old World. For the podcast please click here.You can also find Meena Shamaly on Twitter here.