Civilization’s 30th birthday: The winning poems #1

By | October 20, 2021

We picked recently our winners of the birthday contest for Civilization, who all received a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a merchandise package. We now want to use this place to highlight these poems.

The first poem has been submitted by our user topsecret. It definitely captures the Civ atmosphere.

“One day, I discovered a game.
Civilization was its name.
I logged on, and soon I would learn,
All I could say was “one more turn.”

I settled a city, a capital place,
I researched techs with remarkable pace.
Buildings in cities and units on hills,
Great People, Government, Culture, all thrills!

But then I found my neighbor.
He was this Montezuma guy.
Warring was his labor.
His real name was AI.

We fought a long war,
And as I was seated,
Through my cities he tore,
And I read…

YOU HAVE BEEN DEFEATED.

Just… One… More… Turn.”

Read all the contest entries here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civilizations-30th-birthday-contest-give-civ-a-present-get-one-back.672969/

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #223

By | October 20, 2021

The new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” is available! Try to see if you can play this game better than anyone else!

This time you start as Montezuma on Deity level on a standard size arboria map. You have until November 22 to send in your final savegame. For all other details, please check here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-botm-223-aztec-deity-starts-oct-19.673715/

Civilization’s 30th birthday: The winners

By | October 19, 2021

After a long time discussing the entries of the birthday contest, our team has finally decided about the best presents our users have given to Civ.

The 3 main prizes, a copy of Old World sponsored by Mohawk Games, as well as a Civ merchandise package, goes to our users topsecret, Hinin and MasterOaks.

The prize for best poetry entry (which was hard to decide upon, since the main winners also submitted poetry), which will receive a Civ4 Deluxe box and a merchandise package as well, goes to Romegypt.

After we had decided on these winners, we have selected in a random draw 3 of the entries, which would receive a Civ version of their liking. The random draw winners are Kyriakos, AntSou and Irealys.

Congratulations to everyone!

The winning poems will be featured this week on the main page and on Twitter, so either stay tuned, or have a look at all entries here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civilizations-30th-birthday-contest-give-civ-a-present-get-one-back.672969/

Old World nominated for “PC Game Of The Year” and “Best Indie Game” at the Golden Joystick awards

By | October 19, 2021

After already being in the list of the “Top 100 PC Games which you should play this year”, Old World has now been nominated for the “PC Game Of The Year” and for “Best Indie Game” at the “Golden Joystick Awards”.

You can find all nominations here: https://www.gamesradar.com/golden-joystick-awards-2021-nominations/

Please vote for Old World here: https://www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoystickawards/

Discuss these nominations and the vote in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-nominated-for-pc-game-of-the-year-and-best-indie-game-at-the-golden-joystick-awards.673773/

PolyCast 392: The Good Old Days

By | October 18, 2021

The three hundred-and-ninety-second episode of PolyCast, “The Good Old Days“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:


News
– 00h02m00s | Firaxis’s 30 Year Anniversary Video
– 00h03m38s | The New Yorker Review of Sid Meier’s Memoirs!

Forum Talk
– 00h11m01s | Unpopular Civilization VI Opinions.
– 00h37m14s | A Civilization 2 Retrospective Video


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; sibling show ModCast focuses on Civ modding.

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #121

By | October 18, 2021

The next Civ6 “Game Of The Month” is now available! In this competition you can play each month the same savegame and compare yourself against all the other dedicated civ-players here. Will you be the best? Only one way to find out!

This time you play as Gilgamesh on Immortal difficulty on a standard size map. You have until November 15 to complete this game and to send in your savegame.

You can find all the details here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/6otm121-announcement.673711/

New 4X & Grand Turn based and Real time strategy games coming to PC in 2021/2022

By | October 18, 2021

The above video was recently published, mentioend on Twitter, and we think it is very relevant to the Civ-fanatics audience. While it’s a bit early in the year for such a preview, it is certainly worth a watch (despite the annoying issues with the voice-over) if you have time to play anything else besides Civ, Old World and Humankind.

The video includes some well-known upcoming games like Galactic Civilizations 4 or Victoria 3. But other games are also highly interesting, like Revival: Recolonization or Master of Magic. If you’re not yet sure what to play next year, then have a look at this video.

Follow this discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/perafilozof_YT/status/1449731025567981568

The ultimate Civilization 6 map – an update

By | October 17, 2021

Our moderator bite, also known as Brian MacNamara or TL;DR Reviews, has updated his ultimate civilization map: The final map now contains really all known features of Civilization 6, nations, natural wonders, world wonders, everything. The latest update now includes everything from the Khmer and Portugese.

If you want to read everything about the latest map, or want to have the high resolution version (this here is downscaled), then check out his blog post here : https://tldrmoviereviews.com/2021/10/17/civilization-vi-new-frontier-pass-full-map-map-it/

Discuss his map here in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/mapping-civilization-vi-new-frontier-pass.658372/