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This is really about the whole Civ series. https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/jake-solomon-part-1 Because both the interviewer and interviewee shared an important work experience at early 2000s Firaxis, you get some real cool inside stories in this Part 1. Some moments that...

Making this the second Korea-made Civ spinoff, after Civilization Online. https://mmoculture.com/2023/04/civilization-reign-of-power-nexon-shutting-down-mobile-strategy-title-5-months-after-official-launch/

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2022/02/21/jeu-video-sid-meier-rock-star-malgre-lui_6114668_4408996.html Unfortunately article seems paywalled. Also interviewed: Bruce Shelley, Soren Johnson, and Bill Stealey. Via the interviewer's twitter:

I've seen posts mentioning that they hadn't seen aurora in Civ6 since GS. Is this an actual issue, or the result of pure chance?

The podcast Designer's Notes, hosted by Civ4's Soren Johnson, has recently released The final part of its Sid Meier interview. In this episode, he talked about his more recent games, including CivRev, the unsuccessful Facebook game CivWorld, and the original plan for CivRev2. As you may recall...

"Designer's Notes" is a podcast hosted by Civ4's Soren Johnson. A few days ago the podcast has wrapped up a four-part interview with Sid Meier, with lots of insider talk about Sid's design process. You may also enjoy the episode with Bruce Shelley, which largely focused on his tenure as Sid's...

This has yet to be properly announced, only leaked in some rating board updates. We now have a full trophy list, leaving us with no doubt: CivRev2 has been ported to PS Vita in the form of CivRev2 Plus, coming along with XCOM Plus. Hopefully the PS Vita version can actually have multiplayer.

There's not a lot of new gameplay info (such as new building: Caravansary; old trade routes are renamed City Connections) here, but the interview provided some explanation of Firaxis' thought process. Interview: http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/civilizationvbravenewworld/interviews.html...

2K Games has unexpectedly updated the iOS versions of the game. The good news: the multiplayer has at last been implemented. The less good news: it seems it's available as an in-game purchase, along with other such DLC added to the game: 4 new wonders, and unique buildings and units for 4 civ sets.

Soren Johnson has updated a blog with a post about his thought process in choosing the Civ4 soundtrack. Worthy of front page news? http://www.designer-notes.com/?p=449

Recently I've been playing Civ5 on a notebook with integrated graphics chip, which means the game is only playable using Strategic View. The SV mode has almost everything from the 3D view, but there is one important exception, and it's basic enough that it should be called an oversight: it has...

Hannibal is not in Civ5 vanilla's Great General list, possibly for a very simple reason: Civ5's Great People lists are inherited from BtS rather than C4W, and BtS has of course removed Hannibal from the list due to him being represented as a civ leader, leaving only his father, Hamilcar Barca...

As promised, the first thing I did after completing my download was to poke into its files. There are quite a few assets made for a civil war scenario, from unit models to technology voice quotes. In other words, Firaxis indeed planned to make 4 scenarios for G&K. We can now speculate whether...

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/interviews/civilization-v-developer-ed-beach/ It's written as part of a column on turn-based games, so the topics it covered is wider than usual and not limited to G&K. New info: Ed Beach once worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. He designed all the civ...

Currently there are two bonuses in Civ5 that are intended to reflect modern tourism: both the Mughal Fort and the Moai statues provide gold after discovery of Flight. The problem is that the implementation is too haphazard. It's obvious that the idea began as a way to make Mughal Fort slightly...

http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/civ-5-preview/ At last, two large screenshots.

http://www.1up.com/previews/civilization-gods-kings-antiseptic-approach - The author noticed that the Great Prophets are now nameless, and asked Dennis Shirk about it. - Rationalism finisher: buy Great Scientist with faith.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME2QrgAbSVM - The design of the entire expansion started from the Into the Renaissance scenario. - The civs required by Into the Renaissance were added first. (In my eyes, this is almost confirming that the last civ is Sweden.) - The Frankenstein team (fan...

On the other hand, this PC Gamer interview has new info: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/03/09/civilization-v-gods-kings-interview-with-lead-designer-ed-beach/ "We have one scenario that’s set in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, where we actually do pre-bake in beliefs, and that’s...

I just realized that some of the most famous admirals in history have already appeared in Civ4's Great People list, and Civ5 inherited it from Civ4. The great voyagers are all in the Great Merchant list: Harkuf (ancient Egypt) Hanno (Phoenecian explorer) Pytheas (a geographer rather...