Humankind Closed Beta Key Giveaway!
Here’s your chance to see what Humankind is all about, without the need to lay down your hard-earned money or watch streamers. Simply enter your email, follow some of our socials, and you’ll be entered to win one of TWO keys that we have to giveaway TOMORROW. Winners Chosen! Please check your emails! You have […]
Episode #27: Crow Ben and Humankind
Join Rob, Drexy, Shaun, and the crow, Ben, as they discuss the latest in 4X and strategy game news and then blather on about Humankind. It’s just…so close…to being great, but it’s still a lot of fun for some of our staff here.
Let’s Play the Release Version of Humankind
That’s right. It’s time! Join Rob as he navigates the release version of Humankind, the highly-anticipated historical 4X from veteran 4X developers, Amplitude Studios. What’s changed? What’s improved? Find out as Rob makes his way through the game, with some input from his friends in the audience!
Episode #45: BIG News and Our Games of 2022-23
Summary Rob, Drexy, Ben, and Shaun talk about the HUGE news in the 4X and strategy world, including the Sins of a Solar Empire 2 announcement and a Vicky 3 release date, then get into the games they’re most excited for in late 2022 into 2023! Outro by White Bat Audio. Used with permission. — […]
Humankind’s First eXpansion Announced!
Titled, “Together We Rule“, Amplitude Studios announced today that Humankind will get its first eXpansion pack which will add agents, embassies, the “Congress of Humankind”, new cultures, wonders, and narrative events. Here is Amplitude’s featured teaser trailer: The expansion will also feature a new culture type, focused on diplomacy. Those cultures are the: Sumerians (Ancient) […]
The 4X and 4X-Like Games of 2021
As the end of the year draws in, it is tradition for the staff here at eXplorminate to pick a list of our most anticipated 4X titles due for release over the following twelve months. We’re only aware of four pure 4X games incoming in 2021, so this time around our list will be a […]
Humankind: The Review
“HUMANKIND bursts onto the scene with the goal of directly competing with the 4X juggernaut Civilization in the realm of alternate history. Does it hold its own or is it crushed by the genre’s reigning king?” Overview The Civilization series has always been close to my heart. I played the original on a Super Nintendo […]
Rob’s Top Games of 2021 and 2022
Yes, it’s that time of the year again and I wanted to take some time to reflect on 2021 and the games I’ve enjoyed most this year. We’re going to be doing it a little differently this year, as some of us will be posting our own “Games of the Year”, as opposed to an […]
Humankind Giveaway
It’s arguably one of the biggest 4X releases in years, so let’s celebrate by giving away a copy of HUMANKIND to our outstanding community! If you haven’t already, read our review here, and then enter as many times as you want to below. We’ll give one copy to a lucky soul on Friday, at 12pm […]
Humankind’s Victor OpenDev and a Let’s Play (Reboot)
Yesterday, Amplitude Studios surprise-dropped the “Victor” OpenDev and we were among the first to start showing off gameplay, which you can find below. Many, many changes have occurred to the game since its “Lucy” OpenDev last year. In fact, here’s a small list of some of the additions and balance changes you’ll find, if you’ve […]