Is that all there is? The Age of Empires III demo was released yesterday, and I gave it a thorough play through. Three or four skirmish missions, the campaign scenarios, the “deck-building”. And through it all, I was only mildly amused. Ensemble’s goal to make the best looking RTS ever seems to have been relaxed […]

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The Inquirer says that Paradox’s version of the boardgame classic Diplomacy will be released in less a month – October 4. This is great news for strategy gamers like me who eagerly await each new Paradox game, from the great (like Europa Universalis) to the near-great (like Crusader Kings) to the passable (like Victoria). We’ll […]

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Whenever someone says that they don’t like a game, the title’s fans will almost always ask the same question: “How long did you play it?”. The questions takes many forms. “How far did you get?” “Do you have the x yet?” But the implications are the same. You cannot, apparently, have a valuable opinion on […]

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As popular as the resource harvesting real time strategy game is, it’s a little surprising to see it so often maligned. The entire sub-genre is often written off as having little to do with strategy, derided as a “clickfest” and to many of the hardcore gaming audience the RTS world is full of clones and […]

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The thing about setting yourself up as an advocate is that people begin to call you on it. That’s what happened last week when I got an email from Bruce Geryk about a couple of games he’s really keen on that he thinks need more word of mouth. In short, he said “Advocate this!” One […]

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IGN is running a series of bits that give us some insight into the campaigns in Slitherine’s upcoming strategy title Legion: Arena. There have been three so far; Caudine Forks, Cannae and Zama. For some reason, they are in the RPGVault section of the site. Considering that Legion: Arena will allow the player to develop […]

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