Let me preface this by saying that I am really digging Civ 4. I still need to get a handle on the new way that specialists are handled (I never used them much before) but for the most part the changes are for the better.
And I don’t want to talk too much about the now […]

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Civilization IV was waiting for me when I got home today. Waiting out in the rain, nonetheless. Stupid UPS.
And I have to get up at 5:00 am tomorrow morning.
There is no justice.

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Sometimes you read a post and it simmers in your brain for a bit. Corvus over at Man Bytes Blog does that to me on a semi-regular basis. As hi-falutin as some of my talk gets, he’s all into storytelling, ludology and all that other game design stuff in a much more serious and reflective […]

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2k Games and PopTop Software have teamed up on this US Civil War game with a twist. There are Confederates, but they have tanks and planes. After a nuclear weapon wipes out the divisive American government, the country splits apart. Europe intervenes to hold on to the capital region, but the rest of the regions […]

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Slitherine’s latest ancient warfare game now has a demo. 240 megabytes of spear-chucking goodness.
So far so good. The campaign battles have the typical Slitherine “hands-off” approach to command except now you can give a few orders if your command bar is full. The battle set-up screen seems little different from the one in Spartan. It […]

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The news about Battlefront’s pseudo-sequel to their excellent Combat Mission World War Two games has been out for a while. It took me a little longer to decide if I was interested in it or not.
The time and place is Syria in the near future. The US intervenes when a new and threatening dictator topples […]

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You can find my complete review over at VGPub here. My first big word of warning is in the second paragraph.
“Familiarity doesn’t quite breed contempt, but is does take away a lot of the excitement. Considering that the game is set in the Age of Discovery, you might expect to see some strange new worlds. […]

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Mad Doc Software has announced that they will develop an expansion for Empire Earth II.
Of course they will. When PCGamer gives you a 94% and tells everyone that it is one of the best RTS ever, how can you not?
Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy (another terrible name full of the usual strategy […]

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Age of Empires III

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After a long hiatus, DIY Games is up and running again. The site’s fearless leader has a picture of his exploding car on the site and that sort of sums up what kind of year he’s been having.
I will be returning to work with DIY, partially out of loyalty to Greg - he took a […]

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