Boredom is ancient history. 23 April 2021
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As a gameplay concept, civilisation-building is nothing new in the world of tabletop. In fact, video game series Sid Meier s Civilization was inspired by an earlier board game called Civilization - not created by Sid Meier, but British designer Francis Tresham.
7 Wonders is a tabletop game that captures the theme of civilisation-building, but provides a much more accessible and fast-paced experience than something like the video game. You might be building grand structures, amassing armies and researching scientific discoveries, but it s done in such a straightforward manner that makes becoming the next Alexander the Great feel like child s play.
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Back Page: Guessing The Next Zelda Title Using Industry Trends
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In the game magazine business, the Back Page is where you d find all the weird goofs that we couldn t fit into the rest of the pages. Some may call it filler ; we prefer a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag . We don t have pages on the internet, but we still love terrible jokes - thus our Back Page features. Today, Kate has a stab at divining the title of the next Legend of Zelda guided by recent gaming trends.
Sid Meier: More than Just Civilization
Let’s face it. The video games world is not getting any younger, and the most famous creators of yesterday are now well past 60.
Sid Meier is no exception. I picked up his memoir and it was a good read. I am now pretty confident that we will see more publications in the same vein, as the age of pioneers reaches an end.
For Linux gamers, Sid Meier’s current company,
Firaxis, is a well known benefactor – one of the few friendly to our cause: Civilization 5, 6, and Beyond Earth have all been ported to Linux by Aspyr with the blessing of Firaxis. Even back in the Loki days,
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Intel today has released its latest DCH display driver bringing the version up to 27.20.100.9466. The driver fixes glitches related to graphics rendering in a few titles like
Cyberpunk 2077, although the company has noted the game is still not playable as according to its internal testing, Intel s Iris Xe graphics only gets around 20fps. So it is safe to assume that the slower UHD Graphics will struggle even more.
It also resolves some display problems on 8K monitors and issues related to Multi-Stream Transport (MST) or Daisy Chaining. There are also a few fixes for video playback issues. The list of bugs fixed in this release are: