IGN has a hands-on preview of Imperial Glory on their site written by Tom McNamara. Be sure to check out the videos. The most exciting thing in this preview is the intimation that diplomacy will actually matter- that allies will help you out and that the game won’t degenerate into the player versus the world […]

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Just updated my list of CGM reviews on the right hand side. Three in this month’s – well, two and a half. Gates of Troy only got a few words. The other two were for Hearts of Iron 2 (on which I have already spoken here) and Dragoon, a new Horse & Muskets game from […]

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One of the truly great disappointments of the last five years was Elixir’s Republic: The Revolution, a political strategy game that promised so much in the years of development but shipped as a pared down linear strategy role-player with many fewer options and a bloated 3D engine that most people used as rarely as possible. […]

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If you haven’t heard about Will Wright’s latest project, Spore, do yourself a favor and check out his plans. As the Bard said, ambition can be a grievous fault and this design plan is high on ambition. We’ve heard ambitious stuff like this before, mostly from Peter Molyneux, who sells each of his games as […]

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Last year’s best independent game, Gish from Chroniclogic, and Wik and the Fable Souls from Reflexive won the big prizes at this years Independent Games Festival. Gish won in the open category and Wik took top honors in the Web/Downloadable category. A complete list of winners can be found here. Big congratulations to Reflexive Entertainment. […]

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These recent articles about New Games Journalism have a lot of bloggers blogging and chattering classes chattering. The gist of it goes as follows: Most games journalism is little more than PR hype, fanboy ravings, previews and reviews. Even the features usually run the same stale gamut from “women in gaming” to “violence in games”. […]

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