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Entries from July 19th, 2005

Legion: Arena in final stages

July 19th, 2005 · Comments Off on Legion: Arena in final stages · Uncategorized

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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Generous people

July 18th, 2005 · Comments Off on Generous people · Uncategorized

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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Legion: Arena interview at IGN

July 17th, 2005 · Comments Off on Legion: Arena interview at IGN · Uncategorized

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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Europe – the stronghold of historical strategy

July 16th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

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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Children of the Nile a museum piece

July 14th, 2005 · Comments Off on Children of the Nile a museum piece · Uncategorized

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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The Escapist – another online magazine

July 13th, 2005 · Comments Off on The Escapist – another online magazine · Uncategorized

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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