Populous: The Beginning

The player papersound reaches 1500 played games in less than one year. Papersound is an older player who started playing again in April 2014. He has now become one of the top active players. Tom… Read more

Matt (ttamylno), a well-known Populous player, has reached 8000 points in the Populous: Reincarnated Traditional League Table. Here at PopTB.com, we would like to congratulate Matt for this record-setting achievement. One of the most known… Read more

We’ve added a page on Populous history. It’s just a rough draft yet. We’ve also added pages on the EA Populous leagues (captured at five points in time) and Xatos.

The new Matchmaker (2.0.3.0) has an interesting feature: all games are now saved. So, if any player crashes, or lags out, the game can be started again, as if nothing had gone wrong. Additionally, there… Read more

Populous 3 Tutorials has been releasing, for more than a month now, several videos of single player levels on YouTube. This idea came from Divinity, who is sharing with everyone, the game and all different… Read more

Populous TV, a Web site which allows users to watch live Populous: The Beginning games, is now working again and has received some updates. There are several Populous players which broadcast their matches live, which… Read more

Goodbye 2014, welcome 2015! 2014 has been a good year for Populous: The Beginning, which saw its 16th birthday. Hundreds of new players have joined, some players came back, and activity overall has grown. Even… Read more

Populous Matchmaker has been released for mobile phones. The application was programmed by Omkar and supports chatting and PM. Options include timestamps and disabling private messages. It is available on the Google Play Store: Populous… Read more

The homepage has been updated! Among other things, you can now see the Populous lobby live from the website, being able to see the games being hosted and the chat. Stay tuned for more changes!

Divinity has been making a video series about Populous single-player levels from both the original campaign and fan-made mappacks. In merely two weeks, he has uploaded full playthroughs of the original campaign and Katara’s Voyage,… Read more