In their year end wrap-up, E-Toychest gave strategy awards to both Galactic Civilizations II (for turn-based) and Company of Heroes (for real time). Both choices are obvious. However, each entry makes at least one serious error. There were a lot of turn-based strategy games released this year, but none were quite as successful as Galactic […]
Entries from December 31st, 2006
Etoychest hits and misses
December 31st, 2006 · Comments Off on Etoychest hits and misses · Media
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End of Year Summary
December 31st, 2006 · 4 Comments · Blogs, Me
Since the relaunch as Flash of Steel in August, site traffic has boomed. Every month traffic has increased, from a low of 1400 in August to around 3400 in December. Not great numbers, but better than I expected. And I haven’t Carnivaled at all or participated in a Round Table very often. A lot of […]
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Plug and Play Universes
December 29th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
My review of Warhammer: Mark of Chaos is up at Xtreme Gamer. In it I refer to what I’ve decided to call the Law of Lego Star Wars – a game with a strong license plays by different rules than one without that license. It cuts both ways. Mark of Chaos is a respectable game, […]
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2006 End of Year Strategy Wrap-Up
December 26th, 2006 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized
In spite of all the fuss made this year about the new consoles, this has once again been a very good year for the PC game. And, once again, the strategy genre has been one of the strengths of the platform. In spite of the admirable steps taken to move RTS to the console world […]
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Introversion’s New Game…
December 24th, 2006 · Comments Off on Introversion’s New Game… · Uncategorized
Is about being an architect? That’s the only thing I can figure out from the blueprint screenshots. Apparently this is one of those games that has fermenting in Chris Delay’s mind for a while, but apparently it has been risen from its slumber again. I’ve always wanted to pretend I was an architect.
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Paradox and Gamers Gate Xmas Special
December 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on Paradox and Gamers Gate Xmas Special · Uncategorized
If you haven’t played any of the Europa Universalis games, there is no better place to start than the second one. But, if you insist on doing things in order, Paradox and Gamers Gate are offering the original EU for the low, low price of one dollar. Buy it and see what all the fuss […]
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