The always reliably interesting Kieron Gillen has published the full text of his address to the Free Play conference in Melbourne, Australia last July. Gillen paints an interesting picture of how the gaming press can help small developers get noticed and sell more games. It’s not about corruption (unless you consider sending out copies of […]

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In spite of my tragic turn towards real time games, I think play by email remains one of my favorite multiplayer modes. I have been fortunate to find a small group of people who are mostly steadfast in their turns, and who almost never quit because they “forget.” At the moment, I am heavily engaged […]

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Strategyzone Online has an interesting article and discussion on the question of whether wargames on the computer have been left in the past as the gaming industry and hobby find new ways to exploit the power of computers in other genres. Don Maddox writes: “It is abundantly clear that wargames have not kept pace with […]

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I guess it had to happen. Years of strategy gaming, in both turn-based and real-time settings and my paradigm has finally shifted. I now enter games expecting them to be real time – or at the very least simultaneous turns, like Combat Mission. Turn based games are not only rare, now. They are also not […]

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Battlefront has announced that it is publishing HistWar: Les Grognards, a Napoleonic battle game with 15 countries, 10 historical battles and over 50,000 soldiers on screen. It’s Imperial Glory but bigger – and hopefully better. So, it looks like Napoleon is back on the hotlist for computer wargamers. For a few years now it’s been […]

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Crown of Glory (reviewed here a few days ago) has been patched. You can get the patch from the downloads section of the game info on Matrix Games’s site. The patch description is not especially helpful (lots of general errors are mentioned) and there is a reference to an “occasional PBEM save issue” but nothing […]

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