Check out CivAnon, a support group for those of us who get too addicted to Civilization every time a new one comes out. Don’t forget to click on the “Civil Unity Group” banner on the bottom left for some fun at our President’s expense. It’s a clever little marketing site that earns nothing but goodwill […]

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Will Wright’s latest big idea now has its own website. You can see a cute Flash movie and some screenshots at spore.ea.com. The screenshots all look very interesting, though it is quite hard to figure out what the hell is going on in most of them. We have a city, a creepy-crawly bug thing, a […]

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I don’t toot my horn often, but I’ll do it here. Your lonely strategy scribe was referenced in a LA Time Online piece on gaming blogs and their reactions to the goings on at E3. Specifically, they referred to the pieces done here and at Gaming Politics on Doug Lowenstein’s speech. Now that the ESA […]

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Gamespot has a report on Stardock new strategy game Society. Society promises to be something we haven’t seen done well, a MMORTS. And success will depend on how much you can rely on other people within your empire. Though details on how the empires will be compiled and how much control your allies will have […]

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BBC reports that ESA head honcho Doug Lowenstein thinks that games are too focused on the same demographic that they have always focused on – men in their 20s and 30s. The industry needs to do more to broaden its appeal if it wants to move beyond a niche entertainment industry, Lowenstein argues. I’ll go […]

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Gamasutra has a report (reigstration required) on a panel discussion led by UC Irvine’s Patricia Seed on the place of computer games in her university history courses, specifically Civilization. The most interesting point in the report comes from high school history teacher Jeremiah McCall. He says that asks students to consider what aspects of a […]

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