8 Years Celebration
THE YEAR IN HEADLINES - PART 3
March 2006
March 2 SPOT THE GAME, GET THE T-SHIRT
"Stardock has announced a T-shirt contest. We`re getting Galactic Civilizations II T-shirts in. All the major civilizations get their own shirt. The first 10 of these shirts are being reserved for the people who can post the best retail sighting of Galactic Civilizations II."
March 3 GAMESPOT: 9.0, A STRATEGY GAMER`S DREAM
"Gamespot`s reviewer Jeff Lackey has posted his review in which he rated the game 9.0 (out of ten), the highest rating a PC game has gotten since the release of Sid Meier's Civilization IV. Tilt has been rated 10, gameplay and value has been rated 9, graphics 8 and sound 7 while the game is also Gamespot editor`s choice."
March 4 `MAX` PLUGINS FOR TWO VERSIONS
"Last month the official Civilization IV plugins for 3D Studio Max versions 6 and 7 were made available for download. These tools contain components that allow users of these programs to export models into a format the game can use."
March 5 1.0X UPDATE AVAILABLE
"Stardock has made the 1.0X update available for download from their downloads section although no official note on this exists about this in the GalCiv2 website news. However a journal entry dating few days ago lists all the changes in this update."
March 6 GAMESPY : 5/5, TRUE HEIR TO THE MOO
"Allen `Delsyn` Rausch of Gamespy has rated the game 5/5 stars in his review. The review concentrates on AI and history of GalCiv franchise, and is overwhelmingly positive."
March 7 CIV IV MULTI TEAM DEMOGAME STARTING
"The Civ IV Multi-team Demogame is gearing up for start, and a number of setup details have been agreed on. The game will be played on a normal size, continents map. Other settings include: Normal Speed, Ancient Start, Prince difficulty, Normal Barbs, No Permanent Alliances, and All Victory Conditions Enabled."
March 9 `FREECIV` 2.0.8 IS HERE
"The newest release of the multiplayer strategy game Freeciv is again the latest in an ongoing series of bugfix updates according to its development team. The group published version 2.0.8 to the freeware game`s official website. Specifically, these fixes are for those found in the most previous iteration of the title posted at the beginning of November last year."
March 11 `APOLYCON `06` REGISTRATION BEGINS
"After months of preparation and some unforeseen setbacks, registration has finally begun for ApolyCon 06. Navigate to convention.apolyton.net for more information on the convention. ApolyCon 06 will take place from July 7th-9th in Timonium, near Baltimore in Maryland. The convention will be held at the Holiday Inn in Timonium. Among the professionals at ApolyCon 06 are Sid Meier, Brian Reynolds, Jeff Briggs, Soren Johnson, and Tim Train. Apolyton Civilization Site co-owners Markos Giannopoulous and Daniel Quick will also be in attendance."
March 13 STARDOCK SHOWS UP STARFORCE
"According to this news article, the company that makes Starforce provided a working URL to a list of pirated GalCiv II torrents. An immense wave of support has come forward, both from StarDock fans cheering Wardell`s efforts, and StarForce foes protesting StarForce`s "racketeering". StarForce has since pulled the plug on the link (as did the torrent list site)."
March 14 `GALAXY IS LISTENING` CONTEST ON NOW!
"Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS) and Stardock Systems are teaming up to bring you "The Galaxy is Listening", a week-long Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords contest where asking questions and making comments on the game could bring in a prize from a table worth more than $800US. Between March 15th-22nd, 2006, those who contribute to discussions about GalCivII on Apolyton`s forums can earn one to three points for letting their keyboard do the talking."
March 16 2K GAMES ANNOUNCES CIVCITY:ROME
"2K Games today announced that Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold franchise, in cooperation with Firaxis Games are working on a completely new Civilization-type game: CivCity:Rome. Not many details about the game are released, but it will be a city-builder game set in Roman times, presumably not unlike the similarly named SimCity series."
March 16 EXPANSION PACK ANNOUNCED: `WARLORDS`
"2K Games announced today that Firaxis is working on the first expansion pack for Civilization IV, which will be released this summer. It will be called Sid Meier`s Civilization IV: Warlords. An all-new expansion pack, Warlords pays homage to some of history`s greatest military leaders, delivering six new scenarios, giving players the chance to change the course of history with the help of their new powerful "warlord" unit."
March 17 ONE MILLION COPIES AND GOING STRONG
"Along with announcement of Civilization IV`s expansion pack Warlords yesterday, it was also mentioned that over a million copies of the game have been sold up to date (there was some confusion about this because earlier reports suggested only about half that number had changed hands, but was a US-only figure). This means that Civilization IV is the fastest-selling game in the series! (By comparison, Civ3 needed nine months to reach this milestone). And it`s not over yet, as the game is still doing well in the sales charts."
March 20 NEW SVN SERVER!
"hanks to the generosity of DarkDust the Ctp2 source code has a new home. Those looking for access can find details in the forum!"
March 20 POPTOP FOLDED INTO FIRAXIS
"Gamespot reports that Take-Two executive vice president Cindy Buckwalter announced a merger of PopTop Software with Firaxis Games, as a cost-saving measure. PopTop is best known for PC strategy games like Age of Wonders, Tropico, Railroad Tycoon 3 and Shattered Union."
March 20 CIV FOR N-GAGE RELEASED
"A Civilization game developed for the N-Gage platform has been released by Atari and Nokia, reports Joystiq. The title looks fantastic, surprisingly. We weren`t sure how the game would translate to the small-screen, but the videos on the official site give a decent feel for what it`s like to play the game thanks to the thoughtful inclusion of menu systems."
March 20 FIRST `FREECIV` 2.1 SERIES BETA
"The first beta of the 2.1 series of Freeciv has been released by its development team. The pre-release version of this freeware, multiplayer strategy game has been released for both the native Operating System (OS) it was developed for, Linux, as well as Windows."
March 20 MEIER FORMALLY INDUCTED INTO `WOG`
"The Director of Creator Development at Firaxis Games, and creator of the Civilization computer gaming series, was inducated alongside Quake creator John Carmack and the Lora Croft character from the Tomb Raider series were formally indicated into the Walk of Game (WoG) in San Francisco, California last Thursday."
March 22 IGN: 8.7/10, RISES UP TO CIV IV CHALLENGE
"IGN`s reviewer Steve Butts has published his detailed four page review in which he rated the Galactic Civilizations 2: the Dread Lords 8.7 out of 10, also getting IGN editor`s choice reward. Presentation, gameplay and lasting appeal were individually rated 9/10, while graphics recieved 8 and sound 7 out of ten."
March 22 EVENT SCHEDULE FOR `APOLYCON `06` POSTED
"ApolyCon 06 Lead Organizer John "JohnT" Thornton has published the upcoming event`s schedule. Saturday, July 8th sees the bulk of activities included assorted workshops put on by both BHG and Firaxis Games, the other main participating company. A one-hour "Past, Present and Future" session with Apolyton Civilization Site Co-Founders/Owners Markos Giannopoulous and Daniel Quick will be the last in this series before a two-hour banquet and then a Firaxis-sponsored Civilization IV tournament."
March 25 1.1 BETA UPDATE RELEASED
"Stardock has released 1.1 Beta update for anyone interested to test new features and changes. The Stardock newsitem also features nine screenshots of the update. Be warned that this is not a normal patch but only a beta version of the upcoming update for testing and is likely to contain bugs. The full 1.1 update is expected to be released next week."
March 25 `PROTOTYPING` LECTURE REPORT: IGN
"Tom McNamara reports for IGN PC on the "Prototyping Civilization IV" lecture held at Game Developers Conference 2006 earlier this week in San Jose, California. CivIV Lead Designer Soren Johnson and Lead Animator Dorian Newcomb gave a talk on how they put [the game] together... and the design process isn`t quite what you`d probably expect."
March 26 SOURCE PLAYTEST REVISION 557 UP
"For those that don't know I post builds of the latest going on in the source code modding in between official playtests. The latest playtest being 1-23-2005."
March 26 ACDG III OVER; SPARTA VICTORIOUS
"Following up the Spartan victories over U.N. Peacekeepers and University of Planet and their complete destruction of the Morgan Industries, the remaining factions have agreed to surrender or capitulated."
March 27 ASK WARDELL YOUR QUESTIONS... LITERALLY!
"Between late November and mid-December of last year, Stardock Systems Founder/President Brad Wardell was audio interviewed three times on the then up-and-coming Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords title by Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS) Co-Owner/Administrator Daniel "DanQ" Quick. Now more than a month since GalCivII`s release, ACS wants your questions for Wardell to constitute the planned fourth and final segment. Post, and attach, them to a post in the related forum thread on ACS."
March 28 WARDELL ON MAKING `GALCIV` SEQUEL
"In the final of a three-part Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords feature exclusively for Apolyton Civilization Site, computer software developer and publisher Stardock Systems Founder and Chief Executive Officer Brad Wardell talks about making Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords."
March 30 GALCIV2 DEMO OUT ON GAMESPOT
"As reported previously, the much asked for Galatic Civilizations II: The Dread Lords demo is now available for download at GameSpot. The Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords demo offers an exciting taste of the turn-based strategy game that pits you against a galaxy full of treasures and dangers."
April 2006
April 1 `GIL` WINNERS ANNOUNCED
"One week ago today, the ten top winners in the "The Galaxy is Listening" contest for Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords were contacted by Apolyton Civilization Site Co-Owner/Administrator Daniel "DanQ" Quick about their win."
April 3 AC STORIES CONTEST ANNOUNCED
"After much time Apolyton Civilization Site is running the contest for the best AC-stories again. It doesn`t matter if you are a AC fiction veteran or an aspiring new author, the contest is open to everyone."
April 8 NEW PROMOTION IN CTP SL CIV GROUP
"I would like to introduce myself. My name is Bruce K. Cronkite, a.k.a. Grandpa Troll. An opportunity was presented and I have eagerly accepted this position to be a leader in helping the Call To Power Super League Civ Group grow and be the most enjoyable entertaining and playing experience for not only the new but also the veteran player."
April 12 GALCIV2 POST-MORTEM
"Brad Wardell has written a post-mortem report about the development of Galactic Civilizations II, which has been published by Gamasutra. In the report, Brad discusses the expectations and success of GalCiv I, how that ended up not paying out for Stardock at all."
April 12 BUSINESS AWARD FOR FIRAXIS TOP BRASS
"Game industry website Gamasutra reports that Civilization creator Sid Meier and Firaxis executives Jeff Briggs and Jonathan Plutzik have received the Asper Entrepreneurship Award for their groundbreaking representation of global enconomies through the Civilization game series."
April 13 V1.61 PATCH, PITBOSS, SDK RELEASED
"2K Games today released the long-awaited new patch for Civilization IV: v1.61. And what a patch it is: at 45.7 MB it includes 60 changes, 70 fixes and 22 additions. The full list has been published on our forum. Along with this new patch, Software Development Kit (SDK), or the C++ source code of the CvGameCore.dll file (which contains all the game core and AI logic) has been released as well. Finally, Pitboss has been released as well: Civilization IV’s Persistent Turn-Based Server."
April 13 FIRAXIS SITE UPDATE: MOVIES, GRAPHICS TOOLS & INFO
"Coinciding with the release of the new patch, Firaxis has updated it`s Civilization IV website. The update adds a bunch of new files. Among these are the new patch, Pitboss and the SDK, but also a number of other ones: For those having trouble playing the in-game movies (such as stuttering), low-resolution versions of all in-game movies have been put online (380 MB total), these should play better on affected systems and will hopefully solve these kinds of problems."
April 12 LET THE GAME BEGIN
"The Civilization IV Single Player Democracy Game (Civ4 SPDG) has begun! The Constitution has been approved, a first cabinet has been voted in (although the vote for the Court is still ongoing), the savegame of the starting location has been posted by President Paddy the Scot and the date of the first turn chat has been set for Wednesday April 19, 12:00 noon GMT in the #C4DG channel of the Apolyton IRC chat server."
April 26 1.1 UPDATE AVAILABLE
"Stardock has finally made the 1.1 update available. his free update to Stardock`s award-winning PC strategy game includes tons of new features, updates to the computer AI, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes, and more!"
April 28 SMITH ON WARLORDS
"Gaming site Gamespot has published an interview with Jesse Smith, producer of the upcoming Civilization IV expansion pack Warlords. On the topic of why warlords were chosen as theme for the XP, Jesse says: Toward the end of the Civilization IV project we came up with the idea of a "great general" unit. However, we didn`t have the time to properly develop and balance this unit in the time remaining, so we reluctantly left it out. From this seed came the concept for Warlords, an expansion focused on developing the military aspects of the game."
April 29 ALEXMAN REVEALS WARLORDS DETAILS
"(Former) Apolyton user Alex `alexman` Mantzaris is now lead programmer on Civilization IV: Warlords and was interviewed by IGN about the project. He revealed a ton of new information about the new civs, leaders, unique units, unique buildings and more."
April 30 AU101 NOW STARTING
"Apolyton University is pleased to announce the beginning of a new course: AU101 - Holier Than Thou. The goals of the course are multiple: Found as many religions as possible yourself. Convert your neighbors to your religions for diplomacy and profit! Spread as many religions to your own cities as possible to benefit from multiple temples/shrines/etc."
May 2006
May 7 TENTH BEST SELLER
"It has happened! Despite its lack of any copyright protection, despite of the fact that it`s not nearly as widely available in stores as many mainstream games, despite the fact that as many as a third of all Galactic Civilizations II sales are made through a not-officially-tracked online distribution system and despite numerous claims by Brad Wardell that it would never happen, the game has made it into the top ten of best selling games in North America for the week ending April 22nd, according to NPD Group which tracks unit sales across the continent."
May 7 NEW FIRAXIS SCENARIOS RELEASED
"Firaxis programmer Jon `Trip` Shafer has released two new scenarios for Civilization IV on our Creation&Files forum: a World War I scenario and a fictional near-future scenario titled Battle for East Asia. Both scenarios include some new unit graphics (these shipped on the game CD/DVD but are not available in the regular game), custom flags and events."
May 8 NEW FIRAXIS MAPS
"Firaxis programmer Jon `Trip` Shafer is on a roll! After having released two new scenarios yesterday, he today released five new maps (with resources)."
May 9 FIELD BOMBARDING AND TACTICAL COMBAT
"Q. Do you think siege units should be able to bombard other units in the field? Q. Do you think that vanilla Civ4's 1-on-1 combat is lacking? Q. Do you have an idea on how you'd like Civ4's combat to work? Then Dale's Combat Mod might be for you! Currently at Beta1.5 stage a public test has been opened to help make this mod a fully-fledged combat remodel of Civ4."
May 9 `APOLYCON `06` AUDIO FEATURE PART 1/3
"Speaking with Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS) Co-Owner/Administrator Daniel "DanQ" Quick, ApolyCon 06 Press Relations Manager/Webmaster Kenneth "Zopperoni" Lim and Treasurer Joe "snoopy369" Matise talk about the event in a three-part series as part of ACS` broadcast service, Apolyton Civilization Site Radio (ACSR)."
May 12 IGN E3 WARLORDS PREVIEW
"Steve Butts of the IGN has published a preview of the Sid Meier`s Civilization IV: Warlords, based on Firaxis`s E3 presenation with Barry Caudill. The article features two screenshots, including a shot of the Great Wall wonder. The preview mentions ten new leaders, describes three new traits (charismatic, imperialistic and protective)and Great Generals and other additions as unique buildings, vassal states. Two of the scenarios are also described, Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan ones."
May 12 1.11 PATCH UPDATE RELEASED
"Stardock has released an updated version of their recent 1.1 patch. The main goal of this build is to resolve the memory issues that some people had with 1.1 The main cause of the memory issue was due to our heavy use of caching which could result in a LOT of memory being used."
May 12 GAMESPY WARLORDS PREVIEW
"GameSpy has published its preview of the Warlords expansion. The brief preview mostly gives information about several of the scenarios."
May 12 CIV4 FOR MAC IN FULL TESTING
"Aspyr Media, publisher of Civ4 for the Macintosh, has announced that development for Civ4 for the Mac is going very well, and they are still on schedule. According to a recent newsletter, Civ4 for the Mac in full testing, and the game should be shipping in June for Intel and PPC systems."
May 12 UNVERSAL BINARY FOR CIV 3 CONQUESTS-MAC SOON OUT
"Aspyr Media, publisher of Civ3 and Civ4 for the Macintosh, has announced in a recent newsletter that their Universal Binary patch for Civ3:Conquests for the Macintosh, which will allow Intel Mac users to play Civ3: Conqeusts, should be out by the time you read [the newsletter], although it did not appear to be available at the time of this writing."
May 19 ABOUT FUTURE EXPANSION PACKS
"A recent newspost by Brad Wardell has given some hints about future expansions. The post referred to the results of a previous web poll which asked the visitors if they would purchase a multiplayer only expansion pack that was $20. 67 percent of the poll takers answered they wouldn`t. Hence, future expansion packs for Galactic Civilizations II are likely to be digital-only. We plan to make multiple expansion packs."
May 26 BUSH AND BLAIR ON CIV4
"It`s not every day that a Civ4 expansion is important enough to generate national attention, not to mention that of the President of the United States. But, just recently, the folks at Civilized.de found several videos of Bush and fellow leader Tony Blair discussing four of the new leaders available in Civ4-Warlords: Ragnar, Wang Kon, Hannibal, and Ramses. Take a look to see some of Bush`s concerns about the stability of the Middle East, cannibalism, and more!"
May 29 MAC CIV4 SPECIFICATIONS
"Aspyr Media has released the specifications for Mac Civ4."
June 2006
June 1 UPLOAD SERVICE CHANGES
"Two changes regarding the Upload Service were made today: URL`s produced by the system are now much... nicer :) and friendly to the forum code. While in the "View Files" page, the menu choices became more clear and a new option was added: "USE ON APOLYTON" displays a page various snippets of code that you can use around Apolyton to link to an uploaded image (the page was already linked from the filename of each file but it became apparent that not everyone noticed :))"
June 6 BRAD WARDELL AUDIO INTERVIEW (PART 4)
"Apolyton Civilization Site [ACS], one of the oldest and premiere online fansites for the Civilization computer strategy gaming series and its extended family, is today publishing the final part of an audio interview segment with Stardock Systems Founder/President Brad Wardell on Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords. Topics of discussion include but are not limited to calculation formulas, the game`s sales success, science-fiction adoration and factors that led to the development of the GalCiv franchise in the first place."
June 15 `AON` EPISODE 101 RE-RELEASED
"The first episode of Age of Nations (AoN), "Dawn of Ages", has been re-released. Written by Creator/Producer Daniel "DanQ" Quick, it contains a rectified soundtrack. From this instalment`s explanatory introduction: The audio originally recorded for one scene... had to be re-done due to limited editing knowledge. The quality was insufficient. Due to time constraints, only one of its three voice actors were available to do so. The re-recording was lacking."
June 17 CIV4 ISDG TEAM CREATION
"The ACS team has finally been created....up from the corners of the world we rose! The hasn't actually started as of yet. The 14 teams are still discussing rules and game settings. What has been decided is that there will be two preliminay rounds with 7 teams in each round with the top 3 from each round moving to the Finals! We have 14 members right now on the ACS team and there's plenty of room for more!"
June 17 FIRAXIS STARTS PODCAST
"Firaxis artist Steve Ogden, self-proclaimed audio nut and podcast junkie, has started a podcast on the Firaxis website. With it, Steve aims to tell gamers what it`s like to work inside the zany world of Firaxis Games."
June 22 ACSR BLOOPERS, VOLUME 3 ONLINE
"The third volume of Apolyton Civilization Site Radio (ACSR) bloopers has been released. More than two years since the last edition was published, this new version is set to Hampton the Hampster`s "The Official Hampster Dance" song and features an introduction by ACSR Station Manager Daniel "DanQ" Quick."
June 23 597 BUILD IS UP!
"The Revision Build 597 is uploaded. It corrects the AI diplomacy bug found previous and seems to be very stable! User BureauBert hasn't seen any crashes but it needs more playtesting. Come join the Apolyton Edition playtesters and give it a try."
June 29 `AON` MIDS1P: MID-SEASON 1 MUSIC VIDEO
"Creator/Producer Daniel "DanQ" Quick put together a video montage of clips from Age of Nations Episodes 101-107 of the series. Set to the theme of Tears for Fears` "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"."
July 2006
July 7 LIVE FROM APOLYCON!
"Greetings from Apolyton Convetion 2006! This is the admin- who- did- almost- nothing- for- ApolyCon reporting live from room #228. I'm here with Dan, Zopperoni and Metaliturtle who just arrived and we're unofficially conventing (if there is such a word)... As for official things, to quote our co-Lead Organizater: We're meeting up at 17:30 this afternoon at the Martini Bar, it's the hotel bar which is right in front of when you enter the hotel at the main entrance."
July 7 APOLYCON BEGINS
"ApolyCon has official begun! People are gathering as I write this, while Dan and I just got back from tour at Firaxis headquarters (expect the photo & video feature soon!). We're going for dinner and then hit the Big Huge Games offices for the Gaming Unplugged event."
July 8 APOLYCON @ BHG
"Big Huge Game was the gracious host of our gaming night which included many games which i'm not about to mention cause i set to drop dead in my bed in a few mins... Anyway the ApolyCon group along with our host, Dwight Smith, spent a fun night with BHG's new game, Rise of Legends, Settlers of Katan, Frank's Zoo and even poker and pool. We wrapped it up by midnight as the Day 2 was set out to start at 8am, each with his/her BHG travel mug."
July 8 A06 DAY 2 OPENING
"The second day of ApolyCon started with opening remarks by snoopy369 and Zopperoni, followed by a special Age of Nations video (coming to a video store near you this fall) with all the AoN cast welcoming ApolyCon participants!"
July 11 A06: AFTERMATH!
"I managed to get some time to put some content up, the result being the Aftermath! category in the convention site, where we'll be posting all sorts of feedback on ApolyCon."
July 11 A06: RECEPTION VIDEO
"The first of many ApolyCon '06 videos has arrived. Filmed by event Chairman Daniel "DanQ" Quick, this 04m38s clip documents up to and including the "Welcome Reception" held on July 7th, 2006. In addition to establishing setting, it briefly introduces the audience to some of the attendees."
July 11 IGN PREVIEW: ALL THE WARLORDS CIVS IN ONE PREVIEW
"Gaming website IGN has posted a preview of the new Civilization 4 expansion, Civilization IV: Warlords. In their preview, they detail the new civilizations that will be in Warlords, including their leaders, their unique units, and the new feature, their unique buildings."
July 11 GAMESPY WARLORDS PREVIEW: SCENARIOS AND MORE SCENARIOS
"Game site Gamespy has posted its preview of the upcoming expansion pack Civilization IV: Warlords. Their review contains details of all of the scenarios included in the new expansion."
July 12 A06: THE ADMINISTRATION SPEAKS
"The final session was mainly set to be a brief history of Apolyton presented by DanQ, followed by Q&A, but due to time restrictions it was turned into a quick contest/prize giveway, sponsored by Firaxis as well as the AHSOCPTNH*. Most people came out with a Firaxis game in their hands, the most important being a Sid-Meier-signed copy of Civ4 (which I dont recall who won at this time, we'll find out in the video :))"
July 14 APOLYTON BEGINS `WL` VIDEO PREVIEW
"Apolyton Civilization Site today begins its three-part video preview series on Warlords, the first Civilization IV expansion pack. The remaining two parts are scheduled to be published next week."
July 15 CIV4 MAC: BETA PATCH
"Aspyr Media has released a BETA patch for the Mac version of Civ4. This update contains the following fixes: Better performance on certain Macs (particularly G5`s) that exhibited excessive CPU use in the original release. The game should no longer run dual CPU`s to 100% capacity. Some missing sounds will now play correctly. Other sounds may still be inaudible. A future official release of the Rev A patch will address those."
July 17 AO6: FRIDAY PHOTO GALLERY, PART 1
"The first day of ApolyCon '06 in Timonium, Maryland was Friday, July 7th with time shared between event venue Holiday Inn Select-Baltimore North and the offices of Rise of Nations developer Big Huge Games (BHG). Below is a gallery of nine photographs taken during this time by either Markos Giannopoulos or Daniel Quick."
July 18 IGN SCENARIO PREVIEW: VIKINGS, MONGOLS, BARBARIANS, OH MY!
"Gaming site IGN has released their preview of the scenarios that ship with Civilization IV: Warlords, the Civ4 expansion pack coming out July 25th. The preview contains information on every single scenario that ships with Warlords, including previously unreleased information on several scenarios."
July 20 `AON` EX102 RELEASED
"Written and produced for official registrants of ApolyCon `06, machinima series Age of Nations "ApolyCon `06" Greetings"` video has been released. It uses the opportunity to poke fun at Apolyton Civilization Site from which the conference was based, Rise of Nations, and the series itself. Includes a number of characters "breaking the fourth wall" and introduces a never-before-seen character. This work was first shown `live` at this event in Timonium, MD on July 8th, 2006."
July 23 AO6: SATURDAY PHOTO GALLERY, PART 1
"The second and most substantive day of ApolyCon '06 in Timonium, Maryland was Saturday, July 8th with the majority of the time spent at event venue Holiday Inn Select-Baltimore North and secondarily at the Irish pub and restaurant An Poitin Stil. A number of representatives from Firaxis Games (Firaxis) and Big Huge Games (BHG) participated alongside members of Apolyton Civilization Site's (ACS) community. Below is a gallery of nine photographs taken during this time by Daniel Quick."
July 25 AOM3 RELEASED
"Stan "stankarp" Karpinski released another update to his hugely successful Call to Power II mod Ages of Man, which is a complete overhaul of the standard game, both in terms of graphics and gameplay, and has been dubbed an unofficial sequel to Call to Power II by many. The latest update, the third iteration in the series, has been six months in the making and was released late last May."
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