Steve Butts of IGN has an informative interview with Firaxis’ Barry Caudill. We finally get some information on how the religion dynamic will work and some not so thrilling news about the addition of more movies. The big news items are that eras are gone and so are governments. Now you government structure will be […]

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The title exaggerates, of course. As a strategy gamer, I haven’t many choices and I have been gaming on a PC for as long as I have been gaming seriously. But today I had to help a friend with a problem. He is a casual gamer. He likes games and plays them quite a bit, […]

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A final list of the strategy games on display at this year’s E3. Lots of big titles here. Civ4. AoE3. Rise of Legends. And, most anticipated by far, Spore. Fantasy strategy seems to be making a comeback and tycoon games are still going strong. The shocking title is Frog City’s Snow. One of my all-time […]

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Ferrago has new screenshots of Age of Empires III and Rise of Legends. If they keep this up, I’m going to lose all my hardcore grognard street cred by gushing over graphics. First the AoE3 screens. The Vauban style fort in this shot is a little out of place in the New World. I guess […]

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Haemimont Games and FX Interactive have announced a new ancient strategy game, Imperivm: Great Battles of Rome. Yes, it’s supposed to be a “v”. I guess that since “Imperium” has been used a lot, and they aren’t creative enough to think of another name, they’ll just drop the “u” and pretend that all their customers […]

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1up is reporting that the new version of Age of Empires II: Age of Kings for the Nintendo DS will be turn-based. Why take one of the most popular real-time games of all time and make it turn-based? And how would that even work? “Age of Empires has set the gold standard for real-time strategy […]

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