I love post mortems on game design. You can learn a lot about the business and about developers as individuals. It’s always astonishing how close some games come to failure before they even hit the marketplace, where most of them will fail anyway.
Sins of a Solar Empire was not a failure. Read about how success […]

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I’ve already written a preview, but now that I have my hands on the final version I can begin forming ideas that mean something.
1) The interface has gotten more than a polish from the beta that I played. A lot of the screens have been redone from scratch, and are much improved. The research screens […]

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My preview of Sins of a Solar Empire is up at Gameshark. If you haven’t been following this game, do yourself a favor and check out everything you can. Still some work to be done, but I think Ironclad and Stardock have a real shot at something special here.

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I can’t say too much about Command & Conquer 3 until my review is finally written and uploaded, but I will say that it gives me more reasons to buy Supreme Commander.
I’ve written before about how science fiction strategy games leave me a little cold. Give me muskets. Give me swords. Give me tanks. Laser […]

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If you pre-order Sins of a Solar Empire, you will have access to the beta testing beginning March 27.
Tim Surette at Gamespot reports that Stardock is calling this a RT4X game. “Gamers looking to see if this really is a new genre will have a chance, thanks to the game’s beta test.”
No, Tim, it is […]

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My review is now up at Gamesradar.
The long and the short of it is that this is a good expansion to a great game. A lot of other reviews have, I think, oversold how much is truly new and original here, but there is no denying that this is a must have expansion in many […]

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Tea Leaves writer Peter Berger is starting a series of articles on space conquest games.
Up for consideration this week are Delta Tao’s Spaceward Ho!, various iterations of Master of Orion, Stardock’s Galactic Civilizations 2, Reach For the Stars! from SSG and Matrix Games, and Space Empires V from Malfador Machinations and Strategy First. I’ll be […]

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