Since Yesterday “Terra Invicta” is in early access.This is another 4X game published by Hooded Horse, who also published Old World.While still a 4X game, Terra Invicta is not turn-based, but a real time strategy game, so more similar to the Paradox Titles like Hearts of Iron or Crusader Kings.The setting is completely different though: In Terra Invicta… Read More »
There is now also a TactiCon sale going on!60 different turn-based games are on sale, with discounts between 10 to 75%!Most interesting games for us here are probably “Imperiums: Greek Wars”, “Expeditions: Rome” and “Going Medieval”, since these are history themed, but a lot more interesting games can be found there! For more infos about TactiCon please see… Read More »
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 »
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 »
Paradox is a producer of a range of 4X games, which also have a big following in the Civ community, despite actually not being turn based. One of their latest games, Europe Universalis IV, is currently free to play until September 15! In case you can’t get enough within the remaining days, the base game is also 75%… 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 »
Explorminate, a website dedicated to 4X, strategy and tactic games, has published a list of interesting games currently in development.Most of these games are also interesting for us Civ-fanatics, and have been mentioned here on CFC before. The list: Spellforce: Conquest of Eo Master of Magic (reboot) Alliance Of The Sacred Suns Revival: Recolonization Ara – History Untold… Read More »
Robert Whitaker has released another episode of his History Respawned podcast. He is discussing with his co-host John Harney about the most interesting games at the Gamescom, e.g. Victory 3 or Age of Empires IV. This release of the podcast is combined with an earlier episode of the Civs 101 series about the Inca from July last year.… Read More »