Troubled Canadian publisher Strategy First has announced that it will publish Battle of Europe, yet another combat flight sim set in World War II. It is being developed by MAUS Software (no relation to the classic graphic novel). This is, of course, good news for Strategy First. There have been rumors of its imminent demise […]

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IGF finalist Supremacy: Four Paths to Power has gone gold at last. This sci-fi turn-based strategy game looks like it could be the sleeper hit of the year, the game that all the cool kids are talking about come spring. It is also another game picked up by Matrix Games, quickly becoming the indie strategy […]

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I couldn’t be at the Game Developers’ Conference this year, but apparently I missed a helluva keynote speech by Raph Koster, one of the giants of online game design. His address (transcribed here) was largely derived from his recent book Theory of Fun and Game Design. You can read the transcription for yourself, but I’ll […]

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Three interviews with the makers of Legion: Arena have gone up in the last month or so, so this is as good a time as any to post my early impressions based on the coverage. As I have said before, Slitherine’s games leave me a little cold. Though lovingly made, they never stay long on […]

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Mad Doc Studios has released a demo for its upcoming sequel to Empire Earth, Gamespy’s game of the year for 2001. The original was designed by Stainless Steel Studios, but they handed the franchise off to Mad Doc for the expansion. Now they are doing the sequel. Color me underwhelmed. I wasn’t a huge fan […]

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