Just to be clear: Not everyone is having problems playing on-line… the majority of people are able to get online, play games, and a have a great time.
That’s EA Executive Producer Mike Verdu on the continuing problems with Command and Conquer 3 multiplayer. It worked fine out of the box, but the patches have forced […]

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Medieval II: Total War will be getting an expansion pack soon, subtitled “Kingdoms“. Wow. That took a lot of thought. “Kingdoms“.
On to the fisking of the press release (which can be read in its entirety here.)
“Kingdoms will offer an unprecedented amount of new content that gives gamers over 75 hours of epic new gameplay.”
Unprecedented. Epic. […]

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A guest blogger, after a bit of a hiatus. Fortunately, I already have one lined up for next month, too.
This month is Tim McDonald, and old acquaintance who is the administrator of the forums at “abandonware” giant Home of the Underdogs. He’s a writer in training (novels, even), and resident of the Isle of Man, […]

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The second expansion to the game I still play every night has been announced. You can get the full press release over at 2k Games.
I’ll highlight some of the passages for commentary.
“The expansion will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder.”
I start to lose interest in Civ IV once the tanks […]

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My review of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is up at Gamesradar.
I really like this game. The more I play it, the more I think I should have invested time in at least some of the other CnC games.

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When I first heard about War Front: Turning Point, I pretty much ignored it. First, it’s from a Hungarian developer that I don’t know a lot about, so it was under my radar. Second, Company of Heroes satisfies my WWII fix. Third, I’m sure I played the plot about Hitler being assassinated last year in […]

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Via Tacticular Cancer.
After leaving Shrapnel Games last month in a confusing he said/she said over the completion/termination of 82nd Airborne, Boku Strategy Games has signed on with Shrapnel arch rival Matrix Games.
Boku is the maker of the Horse and Musket series - great 18th century warfare games in dire need of a spit and polish.

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The upcoming Games for Windows cover story:
It’s one of those “exclusive” stories—this time about the followup to Relic’s awesome Company of Heroes. Guess what? We get to kill more Nazis again!!
My money is on the Eastern Front, but does that mean that we only get one new tech tree? Do they recycle the Axis tree […]

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You can find them here.
Looks like Syria has a lot of tires and pallets lying around. And crates. And oil drums.
It’s like open air Doom.

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I can’t say too much about Command & Conquer 3 until my review is finally written and uploaded, but I will say that it gives me more reasons to buy Supreme Commander.
I’ve written before about how science fiction strategy games leave me a little cold. Give me muskets. Give me swords. Give me tanks. Laser […]

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