PureSim Baseball 2005 has been signed by strategy clearing house Matrix Games. You can download a fully functional shareware version of PSB 2005 from the PureSim site. It gives you thirty activations before it stops working. I love baseball sims. The action sports games don’t impress me very much, but give me a good baseball […]

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Portico will get its 5000th hit today. Well, the real 5000th hit was some time ago, but when I changed templates and had to reinstall sitemeter I lost a thousand. So I’ll celebrate this one. I know. 5000 is not a lot in the grand scheme of the internet. But traffic has been slowly increasing […]

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Tilted Mill, the developers of my favorite city builder, Children of the Nile, have announced that Caesar IV is in the works. The made the announcement at this week’s game developer’s conference in Leipzig. Vivendi Universal, the heirs of Sierra, will be publishing it. All the news at www.caesariv.com. Returning to Rome is a good […]

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Corvus over at Man Bytes Blog is hosting a gaming blog roundtable on innovation in first person shooters. I was invited to participate, but my knowledge of shooters is severely handicapped by the fact that I suck at them. Lots of great contributions though, and some interesting ideas on innovation in general. There’s a drop […]

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It is neither a secret or a surprise that I love Rome: Total War. The subject matter is my favorite game setting (the ancient world) and the execution of the game is amazing. After the Risk-like strategy levels of both Shogun and Medieval, Creative Assembly gave us something new and strategically interesting in Rome. The […]

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My blog links on the left sidebar are for gaming related blogs, since that’s the community that this blog is a part of. But a gaming related friend of mine has started a blog that is not about games, so I thought I would devote a post to it. Sarinee Achavanuntakul is best known as […]

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