Slitherine has announced a final round of beta testing for their Roman battle game, Legion: Arena. This one is aimed at testing the multiplayer component of the game. Sign up at Strategy First’s website.

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Much to my surprise, a courier showed up at my door with a copy of Great Invasions, the latest grand strategy game from the mind of Philippe Thibaut. I was officially in the beta test, but I did a poor job of it since it coincided with a billion other things in my life. I […]

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There is a new interview with Slitherine’s Iain McNeil at the RPGVault on IGN. It’s very informative on what we can expect from this title. McNeil writes that Legion: Arena battles will be “over in two to 10 minutes, depending on the size of the forces involved.” This will make for very short battles, but […]

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Of my three favorite strategy games so far this year, the top two were European. Darwinia is a British product and the flag waving Act of War is French. They are representative of a continuing trend in the genre. Europe is increasingly the source of our strategy games and the genre seems to be in […]

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On the Children of the Nile main page, Tilted Mill has announced that the city-builder will be included in the traveling Tut exhibit, Tutankhamen and The Golden Age of the Pharaohs. This is great news for what was one of my favorite games from last year. I’m surprised that this announcement from Myelin Media hasn’t […]

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Not so long ago, I wrote my impressions of Gamer’s Quarter. It’s a very long, very text heavy and very interesting attempt to make a “new” gaming magazine. No reviews (at least as traditionally understood) and a little heavy on the first person side of writing. Is it New Games Journalism? Is it just traditional […]

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