The ancient strategy trend continues with the announcement of Sparta: Ancient Wars from an unnamed international developer, to be published by IMC. From the two screenshots, it looks great. In fact, the announcement seems very heavy on plugging the game’s graphics. It looks vaguely like Pyro Studios’ Praetorians. But it looks to have more traditional […]

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Can anyone clue me in as to how the renewal of Battlestar Galactica remotely qualifies as gaming news? I’m not going to tell another site what’s important and what’s not, but the contract renewal of a sci-fi program is not game related. Given the number of army shooters out there, news from Iraq qualifies as […]

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This is the first in a series of articles on strategy games that never got finished. I am doing this to show not just what we are missing out on, but to point out what kinds of games never get the funding they need. Pantheon was to be Frog City’s next game after their historical […]

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Paradox Studios has announced that its next game will be a conversion of the classic boardgame Diplomacy. (See this entry for the place of this game in my grand theory of game design.) This is good news. Though the games from Paradox have usually been just shy of greatness, there is a to be excited […]

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The sequel to Koiosworks’s Tin Soldiers: Alexander has been announced. Unsurprisingly, it is Tin Soldiers: Julius Caesar. As I said in my review of the Alexander game, Koiosworks is doing the first real ancient wargames since I-Magic did their Great Battles series all those years ago. Rome: Total War, after all, is not really a […]

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I recently submitted my review of Hearts of Iron II to Computer Games Magazine, so look for it in a month or two. I’m not going to cut into my master’s profits by giving away much of what I said, but I will confess to being a little disappointed by the the game’s AI. Once […]

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