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E3 Critics Skip Small Booths

June 16th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Awards, E3

Maybe it’s Paradox’s fault for not having a floor display but instead hiding in a tiny box to the far right of one of the halls. But there is zero reason for the E3 critics not nominating either Hearts of Iron 3 or East India Company for best strategy game of show. Especially when they […]

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12th Annual AIAS Awards

January 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on 12th Annual AIAS Awards · AIAS, Awards

The nominees for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences awards have been announced. The strategy and simulation nominees are: * Advance Wars: Days of Ruin – Nintendo – Intelligent Systems * Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Electronic Arts – EA Los Angeles * Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution – 2K Games – Firaxis […]

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Writers’ Guild Hasn’t Played Red Alert 3

January 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Awards

Because if they had, they wouldn’t have nominated it for a writing award. Nice to see Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! there, mostly because I really love that name.

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2008 End of Year Strategy Wrap-Up

December 30th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Awards

Another year, another set of worlds to destroy. It wasn’t a great year, in spite of a couple of high profile releases. Only a couple of games were good enough to distract me from me Civilization IV or Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties for very long. And, of the relatively few wargames I played […]

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Bruce Shelley a Hall of Famer

December 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on Bruce Shelley a Hall of Famer · Awards, Ensemble

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. I spoke to Mr. Shelley a few weeks ago, and he was very generous with his time when I was writing my series on ancient games. Of the twelve inductees, six have reputations in the strategy game arena – Meier, Wright, Molyneux, Bunten, Morhaime and now Shelley. The genre […]

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Games Media Awards 2008

October 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Awards, Media

Everyone likes prizes. Even the silly ones like “Best Mainstream Magazine Games Writer, Sponsored by Ubisoft”. Yes, the British Games Media Awards are still sponsored by the people that the media covers. Congrats to Tom Francis of PC Gamer UK who picked up Best Specialist Writer – Print Division, i.e., “best writer who works for […]

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