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Feeding the Juggernaut (November 2007)
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Empires in Arms (part of feature on delayed games) (February 2008)

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From Jack DeVries’s IGN review of Panzer Tactics:
The German’s Axis Campaign is the easy mode, the Soviet Campaign is moderate, and the Western Allied Campaign is difficult. It’s an interesting choice to make the easy mode, and the tutorial, star the Nazis. What’s also interesting is that the developer did not opt for a politically […]

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2007 may be one of the greatest years ever for the gaming industry in general, and specifically for shooters and traditional RPGs, but the strategy gaming world seemed a little less surprising or interesting for some reason. Release calendars were dominated by expansion packs, very good games were immediately forgotten and everyone seems to be, […]

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My review of Medieval II: Total War - Kingdoms is up at Gameshark.
I loved this expansion. As good as Medieval II is, the Kingdoms pack adds more than enough variety, flavor and cleverness to keep you hooked for a while. There is some really nice stuff going on here, and adding the SDK means that […]

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This time of the year is crazy. We all know about the shopping, the cooking, the travel (for some). I’ve also had some deadlines to meet and games to catch up on for my seasonal wrap-up. So I (once again) apologize for my silence.
My gift list is usually pretty short since I’m not an acquisitive […]

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Ballerium is a free-to-play MMO RTS from Majorem and Sleepy Giant. I will definitely be giving it a spin sometime in the new year.
Not that I expect much. The video on this page does not inspire a lot of confidence. Be awed by the path-finding through the forest. Count the number of times the player […]

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Blizzard CEO Michael Morhaime has been inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, making him the 11th inductee and the fifth of that group to have a notable background in strategy gaming (Wright, Bunten Berry, Molyneux and Meier are the others).
I’ve never had the love of Blizzard RTS games that […]

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This month’s Games for Windows has an interesting feature story on the use of Native Americans as protagonists in Age of Empires III: Warchiefs and Prey. Michael Sheyahshe does a good job of getting the viewpoints of the developers on the use of Native American perspectives and voices. Let’s face it, this is the kind […]

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It looks like Vic Davis’s labor of love is getting a little more publicity. This month’s Games for Windows magazine has Tom and Bruce playing Armageddon Empires (each on their own, but comparing progress) and Bruce devotes his still-too-short column to the game.
Of course, if you don’t know anything about the game, the account in […]

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As an unreconstructed wishy-washy moderate, I read Slate daily. It’s how I stay non-committal on so many things.
And this year they have decided to publish a year end wrap up discussion on video games. The discussants are all top notch talents, too. Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal, the New York Times’s Seth Schiesel, MTV’s Stephen Totilo and […]

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