My blogroll still links to blogs that haven’t been updated in a while - some in almost a year. I’m not sure what the tipping point is for when a blog goes dead, but 12 months seems to be about right. Some of the dead blogs will stay on the roll if they have a […]

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Larry Bond’s Harpoon - Commander’s Edition is everything it is supposed to be. It’s the same Harpoon that I fell in love with almost twenty years ago. It has all the scenarios that I played repeatedly from both sides, plus the EC 2003 scenarios that I missed. And there’s a Western Pacific Battleset with some […]

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In their continuing effort to revamp, revisit and release every great old wargame from the past, Matrix Games has announced the arrival of Larry Bond’s Harpoon - Commander’s Edition. This isn’t the realistic and ugly Harpoon 2 and 3, it’s the classic Harpoon design with a few new bells and whistles.
Harpoon was the first game […]

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Playlogic has acquired the rights to Lesta’s upcoming RTS Aggression: Reign over Europe. Year old screenshots from an earlier iteration dubbed Aggression: Europe 1914 can be found at Gamespot.
Highlights from the press release, with some of my own whining:
Choose your side - Germany, France, Russia or England – and become the most powerful force on […]

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Blessing Number One: Getting your brother-in-law hooked on Company of Heroes.

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My review of Nethergate: Resurrection is up at Gameshark. The text pretty much says it all. I have a fondness for the Spiderweb games, so your mileage may vary. But if you like RPGs with tons of sidequests and turn based combat, you owe it to yourself to try the demo.

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The Thanksgiving holiday will be here soon, so I have to do prep for a family holiday. That means cleaning, shopping, buying mints for pillows, etc. so there won’t be a lot of new content here for the next ten days.
I will, however, give you a few incomplete thoughts about things I am playing.
1) Asian […]

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From the 1.1 patch notes for Empire Earth III:
Modern era submarines no longer shoot torpedoes at airplanes

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Zack Hiwiller has recently posted one of those essays that makes you nod your head in agreement and silently tell yourself that this is what you’ve been complaining about for years. Sports games are too hard. More precisely, they are very difficult for new or lapsed gamers to get into; they require you to have […]

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I was supposed to do this yesterday; it’s a first Monday of the month thing. But a delay for real content isn’t a bad thing.
November 6 - Empire Earth III (Vivendi/Mad Doc), Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (THQ/Gas Powered Games), Viva Pinata (Microsoft/Rare)
November 13 - Fantasy Wars (Atari/Ino-Co)
November 15 - Left Behind: Eternal Forces Expansion Pack […]

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