The CivGive 2022 announced!

By | November 2, 2022
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The CivGive is a charity event, organized by various Streamers around TheCivShow.
Last year the team managed to raise $42 000 for extralife, and $25 000 were matched by 2K Games.
This year the team will be aiming at $75 000 in total, to contribute to GamesOutreach.org, which helps hospitalized children through games to make ther life in the hospital a bit better.
The Civ6 multiplayer live stream for the event and surrounding activities will happen on December 11, 1 PM Eastern Time.

Right now we know that the following streamers will participate in this giant MP match:

The event is hosted by Nystagmus, Moysauce and PeppermintButler.

We hope that also CivFanatics will do their share to reach the 75 000, and we hope that this will again be an enjoyable event!

Discuss the CivGive with us here.

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #215

By | October 29, 2022
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New month, new game! In this iteration of the “Game Of The Month” you play as Theodora of Byzantium on a standard size small continents map on Emperor level. You have to achieve a culture victory, but all other victories are enabled, meaning you need to prevent all other civs from winning in a different way too!

You have until November 15 to finish this game. For all details please see this thread.

StudyingPixels podcast: Games as Historical Problem Spaces (with Jeremiah McCall)

By | October 24, 2022
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The podcast StudyingPixels has released a new episode: Games as Historical Problem Spaces (with Jeremiah McCall). In this episode Stefan Heinrich Simond, a games scholar from Marbug (Germany), discusses with video game historian Jeremia McCall from the Ohio State University, also know from the blog GamingThePast, about games as historical problem spaces. This means they both address the problems games address, which they also do not address, and historical accuracy within them.
In this episode the talk about historical accuracy in a range of games, fro Assasins Creed to Valiant Hearts, but also talk shortly about Civ6 and the Colonization remake.
The whole episode is 47 minutes and can be found here, and you can discuss it with us in our forum here.

PolyCast 408: Why Do Anything When You Can Pillage?

By | October 22, 2022
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The four-hundred-and-eighth episode of PolyCast, “Why Do Anything When You Can Pillage?“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan” with first-time guest co-host CivMD. Topics for this episode include:

Intro
00h01m00s | Game Spinoff Ideas

News
00h05m58s | Humankind Announces “Together We Rule” Expansion

Senate
00h10m09s | CivMD’s Domination Strategy Guide (Thread) (Google Document)

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on September 10, 2022.
Discuss: PolyCast 408: Discussion Thread

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.

Episodes have been delayed again by not one but 2 different variants of COVID infection occurring in early September lasting until around the fifteenth and four days ago in October. I’m currently doubled over at my desk working on this, but since i had it edited, i figured i should release it. Others will follow when health improves.

Doom meets Civilization: Solium Infernum

By | October 21, 2022
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A couple of weeks ago a new interesting game was announced, which just today popped on my radar: Solium Infernum. PCGamesN has as a headline “Doom meets Civilization as Hellish strategy game gets triple-A remake“. Apparently the remake of a not well known 2009 strategy game, it is set in a Hell scenario (therefore the “Doom”), but it’s a 4X game. It’s a real time grand strategy game (like the Paradox games), and played on a hex map. It seems to also feature diplomacy and management options.

Overall the picture is not yet clear, but it seems we should keep an eye on it. You can discuss with us here if you are also interested.

Humankind – Together We Rule expansion: The Swiss and the Bulgarians

By | October 21, 2022
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Amplitude has released more information about the upcoming “Together We Rule” expansion, and has given us details about the new cultures of the Swiss and the Bulgarians.

Please check this thread to discuss the new cultures.

Thanks to our member Saxo Grammaticus for this notification.

Old World update #99

By | October 20, 2022
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Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes a range of bug fixes, reduced memory usage, reworks on the French translation and more. For more details, please check our thread here.

Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.

Humankind scenario challenge #4: Space Race

By | October 19, 2022
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Amplitude, the developers of Humankind, present you the next scenario challenge: The scenario “Space Race”. In this scenario you inhabit a small planet with only little land mass. Your goal is to escape to Mars, while having the most fame. You have until November 9 to finish this challenge.

For all info please read this thread here, and you can also discuss with us in our forum here.