Let me preface this by saying that I am really digging Civ 4. I still need to get a handle on the new way that specialists are handled (I never used them much before) but for the most part the changes are for the better. And I don’t want to talk too much about the […]

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Civilization IV was waiting for me when I got home today. Waiting out in the rain, nonetheless. Stupid UPS. And I have to get up at 5:00 am tomorrow morning. There is no justice.

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Sometimes you read a post and it simmers in your brain for a bit. Corvus over at Man Bytes Blog does that to me on a semi-regular basis. As hi-falutin as some of my talk gets, he’s all into storytelling, ludology and all that other game design stuff in a much more serious and reflective […]

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2k Games and PopTop Software have teamed up on this US Civil War game with a twist. There are Confederates, but they have tanks and planes. After a nuclear weapon wipes out the divisive American government, the country splits apart. Europe intervenes to hold on to the capital region, but the rest of the regions […]

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Slitherine’s latest ancient warfare game now has a demo. 240 megabytes of spear-chucking goodness. So far so good. The campaign battles have the typical Slitherine “hands-off” approach to command except now you can give a few orders if your command bar is full. The battle set-up screen seems little different from the one in Spartan. […]

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The news about Battlefront’s pseudo-sequel to their excellent Combat Mission World War Two games has been out for a while. It took me a little longer to decide if I was interested in it or not. The time and place is Syria in the near future. The US intervenes when a new and threatening dictator […]

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