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You can read my hands-on preview of the new Alexander expansion to Rome: Total War at Games Radar. This is my first, but hopefully not final, piece for Future Publishing’s new web venture. The download only Alexander expansion has none of the innovation of Babarian Invasion but it does put the phalanx in its proper […]

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Victoria is the ugly stepsister of the Europa Universalis games. It’s good, but fatally flawed in a number of ways. Even the much vaunted regular patch reputation of Paradox couldn’t fix the problems associated with a Byzantine economic engine, the population management system and armies that swelled to incredible sizes. It looks like they have […]

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Computer Games Magazine has a combined July/August issue this year, which makes sense since they are trying to launch their MMO mag. One less CGM issue to produce probably means more time for the new publication. Lots of great strategy stuff in this issue, including a delicious preview of Medieval 2: Total War by Kelly […]

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Paradox has postponed the release of Roman city-builder Heart of Empire Rome until the first quarter of 2007. No reason was given for the delay, naturally. Heart of Empire hasn’t been getting nearly the press coverage that CivCity and Caesar IV have which suggests that they have less to show at this point than two […]

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Gamespot has a nation preview of the Persians for Midway’s upcoming Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War, Stainless Steel Studios’ final game. So they go through the units and the heroes and something is a little off. Well, more than a little off. Persia, like all the nations, gets two heroes. Theirs are Nebuchadnezzar and […]

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