Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have just released their latest patch. This update includes various balancing changes (e.g. no costs for tutoring), 50 new events, and more.
Discuss this patch here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-80.674561/
PCGamesN has just released an article about the educational uses of Civ and Humankind. They describe how a teacher uses both games in the classroom to teach, and uses TikTok further to go deeper in the topics.
An excerpt:
“In the normal classroom we go over the primary theme of each era. Then, in the gaming portion they play a giant multiplayer game where they are given objectives of things their civilisation (or precursor civilisation) actually did in history. When students complete their objectives we go over them in class, using the real-life events as a case study to examine the primary theme of the era.”
The article can be found here: https://www.pcgamesn.com/civilization-vi/humankind-class-teaching
You can discuss this article in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/pcgamesn-this-us-teacher-uses-humankind-and-civilization-to-teach-world-history.674539/
GOG’s Winter Sale is on until January 5! This sale contains many items, which are interesting for us Civilization players, with the most interesting being:
Various other games of interest for the turn-based, 4X and strategy gamer are also on sale!
For 4X games, there are:
Builders:
In the category magic and fantasy we have:
War games/Tactics:
Board games:
Others:
Amplitude Studios has released a new patch for Humankind, patch 1.0.6.667 “Jigonhsasee”. This patch includes AI improvements, improvements for the challenges, and more. You can read the full patch notes here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/patch-1-0-6-667-13-dec-2021.674529/#post-16196765
Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released a podcast interviewing Soren Johnson. Soren is the lead designer of Old World, as well as Civ4, so this interview should be intersting ;).
You can find the podcast here: https://mohawkgames.com/podcasts/interview-with-soren-johnson-design-director/
We have a thread in our forum for the podcast here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/podcast-interview-with-soren-johnson.674526/
IGN has released a video, where three of the Civ5 developers watch and react to two different speed runs. They discuss during the video also nuke-happy Gandhi, how they initially forgot to ship the scoring screen, and other things.
This video can also be found at IGN, and you can discuss it in our forum here.
Slitherine has announced their “Home Of Wargamers” 2021 live stream, where they’ll show all the content to be scheduled for release in 2021 (we assume they mean 2022). The live stream will take place on December 14, 2 PM UK time. The content they plan to show can be seen in the picture, and consists (as people who are familiar with the publisher know) mostly out of turn-based war games.
You can follow the live stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/slitherinetv
The latest game of the other big turn-based franchise from Firaxis, XCOM 2, can be played for free this weekend (December 9 – 13) on Steam. In case this gives you enough taste for the game, it is also discounted down to 4.99€ until December 16.
You can find all the relevant infos on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/268500/view/3100162842716516119