Real time strategy games are mostly, at their heart, about economics. (I’m talking here about those RTS that require base-building and unit creation of some form – not one of the many other types of strategy games that just happen to move with the clock.) With these games, the prevailing paradigm has been the peasant […]

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My first review for Strategy Zone Online is up. Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath is a Cold War era RTS set in a world where Kennedy and Khrushchev didn’t reach a peaceful settlement of the 1962 crisis. I liked it a little better than most reviewers have. It’s not a recommendation – even at a […]

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Gamespot is reporting that a conference call with Take Two Interactive revealed that PopTop, the developer of Railroad Tycoon 2 and 3, Shattered Union, and Tropico has been folded into Firaxis, best known for Alpha Centauri, the 2004 Pirates! and, of course, Civilization III and IV. Given Take Two’s latest business woes, this is an […]

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Do It Yourself Games seems to have gone quiet again, which means that one more venue for my ranting has gone kaput. This is not a great loss for me since I have this place to complain, as well as another location or two that will put up with me. The great loss, in my […]

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