Apparently somebody thinks video game journalists need a style guide to keep things consistent from one publication to the next. David Thomas, Kyle Orland and Scott Steinberg have teamed up to give the gaming media its own manual of style, including, it appears, deciding that, per the title, video game is one word, and not […]

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Supreme Commander has been getting glowing reviews (with a couple of notable holdouts) so I have to add it to my queue of games to get. Total Annihilation rookie or not, you don’t get a new computer just so you can push hex counters along, am I right? And this is a real system pusher, […]

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All from my lovely and brilliant wife, who is sadly out of step with the Arts page of the New York Times.
“Dreamgirls is a musical?”
“What is Apocalypto? I’ve never heard of that.”
“There was a movie about Marie Antoinette?”
“Remind me what else Martin Scorcese has done.”
“Who is that?” (Repeatedly when new presenters would step up. Not […]

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all the GDC parties are on the same night? At the same time? I want to go to all of them.

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My review is now up at Gamesradar.
The long and the short of it is that this is a good expansion to a great game. A lot of other reviews have, I think, oversold how much is truly new and original here, but there is no denying that this is a must have expansion in many […]

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The “user review” is standard at gaming websites now. This means you don’t just have an “expert opinion” argued by one of their writers or freelancers, you get a rating derived from how an army of gamers evaluated the game and a few brief reviews from some of these same people. 1up, IGN, Gamerankings…all have […]

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Big Huge Games is moving away from the strategy genre for a while, it seems. Next Generation is reporting that Bethesda Softworks veteran Ken Rolston is signing on with the RTS masters to make a role playing game.
A console role playing game, by the way. They haven’t said which console, but considering the company’s past […]

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Tea Leaves writer Peter Berger is starting a series of articles on space conquest games.
Up for consideration this week are Delta Tao’s Spaceward Ho!, various iterations of Master of Orion, Stardock’s Galactic Civilizations 2, Reach For the Stars! from SSG and Matrix Games, and Space Empires V from Malfador Machinations and Strategy First. I’ll be […]

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I don’t read a lot of fiction. And I read even less fantasy literature, Tolkien excepted. But I thought that some good fantasy reading would make a nice Christmas gift for my geeky wife and everyone I asked - everyone - recommended the same series: George R. R. Martin’s still-in-progress Song of Ice and Fire. […]

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The first preview of Empire Earth III has gone online at PCGamer UK’s new home. I’ll probably have more to say about this later, but the reaction in comments all over the internet are decidedly mixed, with a large helping of surprise. Empire Earth II wasn’t that long ago, after all. The Art of Supremacy […]

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