The Civ5 Battle Royale is huge but the concept of the show is pretty simple! On a massive world map, 61 AI Civilizations got at it to see which one can be the last one standing. All Civilizations are chosen by the audience of the civbattleroyale reddit group and part of the fun is helping narrate the story collectively along with original content and putting your support behind one of the competitors. No human intervention in the show as a several months long game is recorded and then curated into episodes across the action. Episodes are narrated by members of their 10k+ sized community cheering on the AIs on their unpredictable route to victory. Three seasons have been recorded so far, and the 4th one has just started, the first episode you can find above. If you are interested in following or discussing, then join us in our thread here.
First Human to Receive Neuralink Implant Says It Lets Him Play Civilization VI
The PCMag (and various other outlets) have reported about today’s first video of Neuralink’s first implant: The Neuralink implant is a brain implant for quadriplegic people people, allowing them to move a cursor on a screen. While in general not a new invention, Elon Musk’s company has managed to garner widespread media attention for the first implantation of such a device. The patient reports playing chess with the device, and also playing Civ6 until 6 in the morning.
The video can be found here (mentioned around the 3:30 mark), and also the official Civilization Twitter account has picked up these news.
Glad to see that games can give people joy in their life, although we certainly hope that he’ll have additional useful uses for it in the future.
(Back Episode) PolyCast 419: News, News, and More News
The four-hundred-and-nineteenth episode of PolyCast, “News, News, and More News“ is now available for streaming on the PolyCast YouTube Channel. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:
News
– 06m34s | Leader Pass Developer Livestream
– 25m48s | Civilization VI Added to Game Pass
– 30m16s | April Fools from Firaxis
– 39m30s | Christopher Tin in the Classic FM Hall of Fame
– 45m07s | April 2023 Patch Notes
– 58m03s | Atari Reacquires MicroProse and Infograms
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on April 22, 2023. (Back Episode)
PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production recording live every other Saturday at 12 Noon US Eastern Time throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice. Streaming is currently disabled due to ongoing technical issues.
Ara: History Untold: Dev Q&A March 204
After many dev diaries for Ara: History Untold we now get the first Q&A. In this Q&A the devs talk about which platforms Ara will be released on, if you can change from simultaneous turns to real turn-based turns, the long path to get map sizes right, and much more. Check the video out, and discuss it with us here.
Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #179
For the mid-month Civ6 GOTM you play as Jayavarman VII of the Khmer on a standard size wetlands map on Deity level. The game is hot and arid with a low sea level and sparse resources. You get a bit compensated with a legendary starting position, but you also need to deal with dramatic ages and a disaster intensity of 2. In addition to this you need to win a diplomacy victory. The deadline is April 15, and you can find more information here.
Humankind Spring sale
Humankind is part of the current Steam spring sale.
The base game is reduced by 75%, and the DLCs are reduced between 33 to 75%.
This sale runs until March 21.
Get them here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124300/HUMANKIND/
Discuss the sale in the forum here.
Millennia Developer Diary – Achievements, Modding & Multiplayer
We got another developer diary from the new Paradox game Millennia!
This time the diary is about various options which we all like to have: MP, modding and achievements. Obviously Millennia has them all, as we would otherwise not have this diary. The short version is that Millennia does support Hot Seat, as well as the cloud version of this, which apparently ends up being a stream-lined version of Play-By-Email. Millennia will furthermore have modding support, via XML files, which many modders here are already used to from modding Civ4 to Civ6. There are also various achievements, e.g. for unlocking each age, making definitely multiple playthroughts necessary to get all achievements (although most people will anyways play countless times). For a longer version of everything with more details please check this thread.
Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #241
For the mid-month Civ5 GOTM you play as Dido of Carthage on a standard size small continents map on Deity level. While you would certainly want to take a stab at Caesar, you have to win via a Diplomacy victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving another victory. Your deadline is April 15. For more information please check this thread.