Wargames get next to no respect. Even when they do get reviewed, they are either given vague reviews and middling “play it safe” scores or they are completely mangled by people who show neither the time nor patience to figure out what the hell is going on.
But if you name your site Strategy Informer, you […]

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This thread on my favorite gaming discussion forum contains the announcement from CGW Editor Jeff Green that the April CGW will not have star ratings for the games being reviewed. And no, it doesn’t appear to be an April Fool’s joke. Though I wouldn’t be surprised.
Assuming this isn’t some elaborate joke, Green says that one […]

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4x strategy megasite Apolyton is running a trilogy of articles from Stardock’s Brad Wardell about Galactic Civilizations II. I’m going to reserve comment on the game itself until my review hits print, but the second essay by Wardell is a must read for anyone interested in how game designers think.
First, who would have thought that […]

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I know that the dismal Diplomacy means that I shouldn’t get too excited about Europa Universalis III. The fact that they plan to use some of the stuff from the ambitious kluge Victoria should give me even more pause.
Add that they are cutting the number of years by at least thirty - now starting […]

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Some of my favorite games are those that don’t let me control everything.
This may sound a little odd coming from as devoted a devotee of the god-game as I am. The whole god game idea suggests that some benign (or malicious) intervention from the player can set things aright. The player sets the agenda, builds […]

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(Full disclosure: After conducting this interview with game developer Philippe Thibaut, I was approached to proofread and edit the English language manual for Birth of America. There was no financial compensation for this, nor was any expected.)
At first glance, Birth of America is nothing at all like either of Thibaut’s other PC games. Where both […]

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Lots of new stuff on Rise of Legends is coming out. Gamespot has revealed that the third race is a stranded alien group called the Cuotl. (Their name is vaguely Meso-American, so it’s kind of appropriate that they will have a Mayan theme.) March’s CGM has a great preview written by Ben Sones that goes […]

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My print magazine of choice (and sometime publisher) Computer Games Magazine is now available on Zinio. You can get a free peek at this month’s issue here.
The print version of March’s CGM also has my review of Slitherine’s Legion Arena.
As the reviews of Legion Arena trickled in, I began to wonder if I was missing […]

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