So on Tom’s recommendation in the last podcast, I picked up Rune Factory 2. He was not kidding about the slow start. You begin with a hoe, a watering can and barely enough money for seeds once you sell the herbs that are cluttering up your farmland. Swords are expensive, too. He also warned about […]

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Credit to Randall Munroe at xkcd.

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I was supposed to be in LA in mid-afternoon, but thanks to Southwest making me swap flights in Phoenix, I only arrived in my hotel room a few minutes ago. Which means I did not get to register today, so it will be an early morning rush to beat the rush. Good news is that […]

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Gamesradar has posted its review of Left Behind: Eternal Forces. After receiving my brief review, the editors decided to expand on some of my comments, which is totally cool with me. So there’s no Goodfellow byline here, since it was a collective effort, but nothing was added that I substantially disagree with. Most of words […]

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Now that Computer Gaming World is officially Games for Windows, it’s probably a great time for the Ziff Davis people to upload the covers of every single CGW printed. They’ve also made available the complete text of the first 100 magazines, stretching from 1981 to November 1992 – an amazing resource for people as interested […]

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Flash of Steel is the blog of Troy S. Goodfellow. That’s me. I wroteabout computer games in one place or another from 2000 to 2010 with a focus on historical strategy games. This blog has that same focus, but will also deal with other gaming issues as they arise. In 2011, I accepted a position […]

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