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 Civilizations II.
A […]

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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 this […]

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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, but

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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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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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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 is […]

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It’s a good thing that Heart of the Empire: Rome was delayed till 2007. It would have had a hard time finding room on my schedule. I must have built more acqueducts, plazas and temples this year than in any other, and that’s not even counting the hundreds of hours I sunk into Civilization.
2006 […]

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I’ve already shown my love and appreciation for Computer Gaming World’s archive of old issues. They even have an index now, so you can keep track of who said what where.
In a fit of Ebay inspired silliness, I went and furthered my obsession with the past by buying 70 back issues of Computer Games aka […]

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I only really care about the PC, so here’s the link. Well, I care about the other systems in an intellectual way, I guess. But the PC is my bread and butter.
No surprises here, really. There’s still the anachronism of turn-based versus real-time, but lots of love there for two of my favorite games this […]

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This months Computer Games Magazine arrived a little later than usual, and with a huge ad for Massive Magazine glued all the way around it. Though it’s great to know that I can get four issues of this wonderful publication for the low, low price of six dollars, I know that if I try to […]

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