RTS evangelist Tom Chick devoted his most recent column to a celebration of Rise of Legend’s second anniversary. He talked to Big Huge Games head honcho Brian Reynolds about the game - why it worked and why it wasn’t the huge success it deserved to be.
This exchange capsulizes the prevailing thinking on why the game […]

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My review of Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties can be found on Gameshark. Better late than never.
The long and short of it is that the Asian nations are very powerful. Their explorers are better so they can get the early treasures faster. They age up with wonders, some of which have special powers, like […]

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From Big Huge Games’ Andrew Auseon at the Asian Dynasties blog at IGN.
A good example of when the element of history bowed to the element of fun was the Flail Elephant. The Indian civilization can train a siege elephant that swings a weighted chain from the end of its trunk. The only accounts of this […]

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You can get the demo of Age of Empire s III: Asian Dynasties over here. It has a single campaign mission and one new Civ, the Japanese.
The Japanese will pose some interesting problems for Age players. First, no hunting allowed. Animals are used to increase the productive output of shrines instead. Build a shrine near […]

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It’s odd, but the prospect of playing an online version of Settlers of Catan with high production values has me closer to dropping coin on a console than all the zombie/alien/robot killing glamor that the living room gamers have been screaming about for years.
So it’s reassuring to read Julian Murdoch’s positive impressions of Big Huge […]

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Big Huge Games is moving away from the strategy genre for a while, it seems. Next Generation is reporting that Bethesda Softworks veteran Ken Rolston is signing on with the RTS masters to make a role playing game.
A console role playing game, by the way. They haven’t said which console, but considering the company’s past […]

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