From Jonathan Trevisani’s CGOnline review of Medieval II: Total War: The Holy Roman Empire (also known as the Byzantine Empire) was the empire of my choice so I could teach all of these hooligan fiefdoms the glory that was Rome could once again rise. It’s stuff like this that gets me frustrated with the state [...]

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CGOnline has posted a very detailed interview with GSC Gameworld’s Oleg Yavorsky. The subject is their latest RTS and it sounds…interesting. The whole “RPG or RTS?” divide is what Heroes of Annihilated Empires will have going for it in a year already crowded with interesting strategy games. Last year’s Dragonshard had a little bit of [...]

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Tom Carrick is another one of my British acquaintances who likes to grumble about everything. He’s too young to be a bona fide crank, but there you have it. He is also very good at MegaMek and very bad at Civ IV, at least in multiplayer. His contribution to the list of guest blogs is [...]

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Jason Ocampo has written a very encouraging preview of Galactic Civilzations II: Dark Avatar. Espionage, mining colonies, terraforming research…if weren’t for the promise of a streamlined tech tree, it could be confused for Space Empires V.

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My friend asked me for another game last week. After his experience with Pirates! (which he eventually got working), the first thing he asks me is whether any game I recommend will run on his laptop. He picked up Medieval II on his own. He loved Rome and was really looking forward to Medieval II. [...]

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