The demo for Pyro Studios’ Imperial Glory is available at an online location near you. I got mine from 3DGamers. The verdict? It’s pretty good. There are two battles, one in farmland in Hannover and one in North Africa. There’s also some video of parts of the game not available in the demo – naval […]

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From the site that brought you the 50 Essential Games, 1up is now doing the 50 Crucial Classics – “50 Games You Must Play”. I’m still not sure I get the difference between “essential” and “crucial”, but it seems that the latter has more to do with quality and landmark status. In other words, “crucial” […]

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My first review for Game Method has just been posted. Though I promised myself I would stay away from any more volunteer writing gigs, since time is a valuable resource and the checks from CGM are validation of my “skills”, I am excited to be working with Game Method. They have a good team of […]

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I review a lot of independent games. (I could write a long post on what indpendent games are and what they aren’t, but I’ll just point you to Greg Micek’s column in the April issue of Computer Games Magazine.) Many of these games have small teams, small budgets and sell for lower prices. My most […]

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Gamerankings is an interesting site for more than the obvious reasons. Yes, it is cool to be able to see which games are reviewed by the most people and which get the best scores. I like to check the average review scores from particular sites or magazines to see which publications are the most out […]

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Grand strategy masters Paradox Studios has just announced that it will be the North American publisher for Sunflower’s medieval strategy game Knights of Honor. So Paradox is not only acquiring other people’s IP (Diplomacy, ASL, etc) but is now publishing a third party’s game. This is good news regardless of whether the games they publish […]

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