So a friend is trying to design a computer simulation based on the Community Land Use project of the 1960s. He has a forum devoted to this project, which he sees as a more realistic and politically driven SimCity type thing, at his cooly named website. The forum has a section where input into the […]

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The forums at Heaven Games are reporting that the new Ensemble Studios game will be on the Age of Discovery, based on the story in this month’s PC Gamer. So the press breaks the exclusive story before Ensemble can announce it on its website. The game will go from 1500 to 1850 and tell the […]

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I am now playing two simultaneous online sessions of War! Age of Imperialism, both hosted by a fellow game reviewer. In one of them, I am so far behind and stuck in southern Africa that I will likely end up waiting out the game. The other has just started, but I have a bad feeling. […]

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This is a term that I will be using from time to time – I just used it in a post without explaining what it meant, though. Risk and Diplomacy are both world conquest board games, but each has a different approach. Risk is all about the dice rolls. There is not a lot that […]

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A thread on the Quarter To Three forum reminded me of Frog City’s classic Imperialism series, so, in a fit of nostalgia, I installed Imperialism 2. And promptly realized how hard this game was. People talk about learning curves today and they usually mean that a game has a lot of menus and stuff that […]

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