Fun fact: My review of Victoria for Computer Games Magazine was the first review I was ever paid for. Chris King’s opening developer’s diary for Paradox’s upcoming Victoria 2 tries to explain the thinking behind making the game in the first place, and the reasoning is still a little unclear to me. There are two [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Paradox'
New Game Announcements from CA and P’Dox
August 19th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Creative Assembly, Paradox
In what is probably the least surprising news of the month, Creative Assembly has announced what I think is an expansion for Empire: Total War, using Napoleon as the theme. The turn-based campaign is split into three different story-driven campaigns, telling the story of the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte through his most famous [...]
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Crispy Minute on East India Company
August 12th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Paradox, Review
I had no idea I was rocking like that. Wow. I look kind of crazy. I’ve said before how much I love what Crispy is doing with most of its short videos, and this was a lot of fun to shoot. There’s about 20 minutes on the cutting room floor, because the cameraman, John Teti, [...]
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Hearts of Iron 3 review
August 10th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Paradox, Review, WW2
I was out of town for a long weekend. Caught a show in NY, met up with some of my Crispy Gamer colleagues, shot a video with them, etc. In the meantime, Crispy Gamer published my review of Hearts of Iron 3, which I love. There are problems with the game. There is some slowness [...]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 24 – Making A Buck
August 5th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Business Sim, Paradox, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
East India Company and other trading themed games take center stage this week. Listen as a full panel talks about where Nitro’s sailing business sim stands and falls. Is it possible to make cargo interesting? Are trading games pointless with a computer opponent? Listen here. RSS here. Subscribe on iTunes. Tom’s final Fidgit diary on [...]
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East India Patch Speeds Things Up
July 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments · Paradox, Patches
Considering that one of my major complaints about EIC was the constant dropping into port mode, it’s typical that they would fix that in the first patch. But seriously, guys, this is the kind of thing that should have been caught in play testing and that Beta testers (if they weren’t consumed by group think) [...]
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