The dirty secret of games journalists is that many of them are not very good at games. You won’t see them topping games ladders or schooling all newcomers. They play too many games to ever really excel and any one unless it is their sole pastime outside of the work environment. This is doubly true […]
Entries from August 26th, 2007
Minimum Spec Fun
August 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Me
For the last week or so I’ve been unable to play Bioshock. I exceed the minimum specs by quite a bit, except for two things – video card memory and RAM. Here I am right at the minimum line so the game would crash on area transitions. I haven;t been able to get past the […]
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The Making of Shogun
August 24th, 2007 · Comments Off on The Making of Shogun · Creative Assembly, Interview
Sometimes I wish I had a huge portfolio of developer interviews and features that I could dredge up to make up for new content. Kieron doesn’t have that problem.
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Age of Empires Retrospective
August 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Age of Empires Retrospective · Ensemble, Industry
Gamasutra has just published a story on the Age of Empires panel at GCDC. Bruce Shelley, Brian Sullivan and Rick and Tony Goodman were there to talk about the history of the franchise. A note for the writers – when you have two Goodmans talking you can’t just write “said Goodman.” There aren’t a lot […]
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Empire Impressions at Gamespot
August 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Creative Assembly, Napoleonics, Preview
Jason Ocampo has written an extended “first impressions” article on Empire: Total War. The highlights include a description of how the campaign scales in complexity as you move through it, giving you little to do and then more and then more. There will be a new engine and some new features, including garrisoning buildings and […]
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Personal Gripe Time
August 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Personal Gripe Time · History, Me
How in the name of all that is holy does Alexander Hamilton not make the cut as an advisor for the United States in the Napoleon’s Ambition expansion to Europa Universalis 3? He’s the indispensable founding father – he did and thought things that precious few of his compatriots did. Add him. Level 6 Treasurer.
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