Christoper Tin, our most beloved composer, will be giving a free webinar about how he is making his music.
This webinar is organized by Hal Leonard and the American Choral Directors association, and will be available on Zoom on October 4, 7 PM Eastern Time.
If you want to know more about his soundtracks, culture and music, then have a look at it.
You can sign up here, and these news have been provided by himself on Twitter.
You can discuss this webinar in our forum here.
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 this thread.
At the same time the Humble Bundle as a sale for the Total War classics.
For only 12.08€ you get Medieval I+II, Shogun I+II, Empire I, Napoleon and their addons. If you have not tried a Total War title, then this is the time to do it!
In short: 2K reports that one of the vendors for their support was breached. The hackers sent out emails to people who had interactions with the 2K support, with a malicious link in it (or trojan attachment, depending on source). If you recently received an email from 2K which you did not expect and you clicked a link in it/downloaded an attachment, then you might be in trouble, and should do the general security precautions like changing your passwords.
For discussions about this please see here.
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 to publish games. Other talks include the future of tactical games, and how to balance depth versus the decision making freedom of the players.
There will be various streamers, e.g. kormaktv, who will also be streaming related to TactiCon, see his schedule here.
Amplitude, the developers of Humankind, present you the next event: The scenario “Against the Odds”. This event runs from September 20 to October 18, and it challenges you to catch up with far more advanced enemies, who are already ahead of you (between ancient era to industrial era in the new world) while you are still in the neolithic era.
For more details read the full announcement at Games2Gether, or discuss this challenge in our forum here.
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 unreleased.
If you’re interested in Humankind, Ozymandias, Great House of Calderia, Old World, or others, then you should follow this event.
For a list of covered games see here, and stay tuned for the actual event link :).
And we are ready to give you another game to play! To honour the recent events, you will this time play as Victoria of England on a standard size small continents map on Deity. You get a low sea level and a disaster intensity of 4, and in addition you need to go for culture victory. You can conquer the Victorian era until October 15!
For all other info, please see this thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/6otm143-announcement.679002/
To celebrate another Civ birthday, 2K has now released more merchandise for the Civilization franchise! You can now buy a 30 years anniversary hoodie for €59.99, a new Civilization T-shirt for 29.99€ and a notebook for 24.99€.
You can find these items for sale in the 2K shop. Currently there is also a sweepstake for this new merchandise set on Twitter.
Discuss this new merchandise in our forum here.