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Entries from July 8th, 2012

Toronto Summer Meetup

July 8th, 2012 · 7 Comments · Me

So with regular meetup commuter Jon Shafer pushing me to pick a date when he can come up and kick butt at board games again, we’ve settled on the Civic Holiday weekend – the first weekend of August. On Saturday, August 04, 2012, any and all are invited to come to Toronto and play board […]

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Prepare Ye The Way of the Lord

July 6th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Design, Firaxis

Religion is the big new system in Civilization V: Gods and Kings and we talked quite a bit about it on last week’s podcast. To recap the basics, you now accumulate “faith” as a resource, similar to culture, and can use this resource to create prophets, missionaries and religious buildings. It also lets you spawn […]

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Rome Total War 2

July 2nd, 2012 · 6 Comments · Ancients, Creative Assembly

So here we have the teaser trailer for the freshly announced Rome: Total War II. Given Creative Assembly’s amazing success with Shogun 2 and my own inability to resist anything vaguely Roman, I suppose I should be excited. And with drops of information being passed out (fewer armies, meaning more significant battles, for example), it […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 175 – Gods and Kings

July 1st, 2012 · 9 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Popcap’s Jeff Green joins returning guest David Heron, Troy, and Rob for a discussion of the Civilization V expansion Gods and Kings. Together, they discuss why Civ V was so controversial, how G&K changes it, and whether its major changes seem quite as meaningful now that they’ve put some time into it. Be sure to […]

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