My game shelf is bulging with strategy and war games. Well over a third of my collection is strategy of one form or another, from tactical combat games like X-Com to RTS staples like Age of Empires to half forgotten titles like Joan of Arc: Siege and Sword. And of these, very few are science […]

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The third volume of The Gamer’s Quarter is now available at their website. There have been eleven issues of The Escapist since the second volume of GQ came out. As I browse GQ3, it hits me why I can’t fall in love with this web magazine no matter how much I want to. It’s not […]

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As hard as it is to believe, there haven’t always been expansion packs. Every now and then a sports game would put out a stadium disk or roster patch, but the early 90s were largely bereft of such cash grabs. The first expansion I can remember being excited about was the Campaign Disk for SSI’s […]

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In case you haven’t checked it out, PC Gamer magazine (the US version) has a podcast now. It’s not bad, as far as these things go. Knowledgeable people talking knowledgeably about computer games and the like. Sure, they may review a game a month before it even goes gold, but you don’t get to be […]

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One more reason to get excited about the imminent release of Diplomacy from Paradox. Anyone who preorders the game from their online shop has a chance at some pretty cool prizes. First prize is a weekend in Stockholm hanging out with the development team. You get a behind the scenes look at how the kings […]

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Gamespy has a report on the multiplayer component of Civlization IV. Dave Kosak is writing about an event that I had the good fortune to attend. My reflections on MP Civ and the game in general should be in an upcoming issue of Computer Games Magazine. Dave explains in pretty good detail the “culture bomb” […]

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