This will probably be my only post about Grand Theft Auto IV, a game which has been dubbed not only “great”, but “important” by a number of very savvy critics. Seth Schiesel’s review in the New York Times epitomizes the form, being (as usual) well written enough to persuade my wife that GTA4 is something […]

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“Luck” is a very useful attribute in Galactic Civilizations II. You never know when you’ll stumble upon something useful in those anomalies or on a planet. I always take Luck for my race, because it’s cheap.
I’m in the middle of a campaign in the new GalCiv 2 expansion, Twilight of the Arnor. I’m in the […]

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I recently submitted my Europa Universalis: Rome review, and I hope it will be online sometime in the next couple of days. A lot depends on my overworked and understaffed editors, but I’ll let you know when its up.
I’ll be honest and say that I’m happy with maybe half of what I wrote, primarily because […]

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Kotaku is reporting that future editions of DICE and GDC will be going invite only with press registration. Concerned about the growing size of the conference and the vanishing developer culture of the annual event, Jamil Moledina thinks that something has to be done to get GDC back under control.
“It’s meant to be a networking […]

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Nothing like stirring the pot to get a little attention. My recent counterpost to Dr. Nathan Toronto’s article on The Future of the RTS has (with my consent) been reprinted on Gamasutra. I hope the conversation will continue, though I should probably have added a paragraph or two about the potential for Sins of a […]

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Over the last couple of years I’ve heard and read a lot of people complaining about all the tiny stickers in Command and Colors.
Brother, they weren’t kidding. That took forever. And I’m still not done.

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Sometime in the last few days, Flash of Steel topped one hundred thousand hits. Because of changes in location and template and all that stuff, it’s not exactly clear who or when it was. Hell, it may even have been me.
Anyway, thanks everyone. Let’s try to hit 200k by 2010.

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I’m on a road trip to the West Coast for the next few days, so no updates till mid-week.

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Looking back on 2007 at Flash of Steel, it became apparent how important a steady stream of content is for minor blogs like mine. I took a couple of short (a week or so) breaks and traffic dipped. December was an especially bad month since I had deadlines to make plus holiday travel that got […]

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This time of the year is crazy. We all know about the shopping, the cooking, the travel (for some). I’ve also had some deadlines to meet and games to catch up on for my seasonal wrap-up. So I (once again) apologize for my silence.
My gift list is usually pretty short since I’m not an acquisitive […]

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