For a couple of years now I have been using Game Collector to organize my games collection. This small bit of software was a little pricy, but it’s ability to import data about a game from online sources made it a lot easier to use than simply making my own. Sure, I couldn’t add many […]

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Three new reviews from yours truly. Game Method has posted the Cossacks II review I did for them, and you can find my Computer Games Magazine review of the same game in their September issue. My CGM review of Supreme Ruler 2010 is in the same issue. If you compare the Cossacks II reviews, you […]

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Gamespot has a preview of the campaign story for Big Huge Games’ upcoming RTS Rise of Legends, coming to us via Ike Ellis and Paul Stephanouk. The plot sounds like what you would find in any RPG. Person on periphery of power is thrust into position of Grave Responsibility and must navigate the Treacherous Waters […]

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Gamespot has posted the first profile of a culture in Stainless Steel Studios’ upcoming Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War. The Egyptians get the star treatment and there is quite a bit of information about what we can expect from them. The game has hero units as the major new innovation, and SSS has gone […]

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I appreciate all the regular traffic from regular readers, but a minor interruption will prevent me from updating regularly for the next week or so. The recent drop-off in content has been because I am preparing for guests on holiday. So, I will be playing the host for a week or so. In the meantime, […]

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The strategy genre has not made much of a dent in the console world. Though older classics like Age of Empires and Europa Universalis are now finding their way to handhelds, console strategy has, for the most part, been left to planning out your franchise moves in a sports game or choosing which card to […]

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