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.
Entries Tagged as 'Awards'
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 · No Comments · 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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Strategy Games of the Half Year and 2008 so far
June 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Awards, Blogs, Me
It’s the end of June, so it’s time to look back at the first six months of 2008 and see how the genre is doing. Frankly, it hasn’t been a great six months. We’ve had a lot of expansions and a few original titles, but not much in the way of new games. The good [...]
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AIAS Agrees With Me
February 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments · AIAS, Awards
I guess I’m not the only one who thought Command and Conquer 3 was the best strategy game of 2007.
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