All strategy and wargamers should read Greg Costikyan’s contribution to this week’s Escapist. It’s a great little summary of the evolution of board and paper games, including strategy and wargames. I don’t as eagerly endorse the conclusions he draws for the computer gaming industry, but his account of the history of gaming is full of […]

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Four sim-Rome games coming out in the near future, and, based on the screenshots, not a hell of a lot to distinguish them. Here are shots of Firaxis/Firefly’s CivCity:Rome. Here’s Caesar IV from Tilted Mill. Haemimont’s Glory of the Roman Empire is here. And finally, Deep Red’s Heart of Empire: Rome. Now, it is completely […]

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Brad Wardell, the big brain behind Galactic Civilizations II (one of the best strategy games of a young 2006) thinks I am wrong. Or at least focused on the wrong things. And not just me. In my recent Round Table post on gaming friendships, I noted that GC2’s lack of multiplayer handicapped it when compared […]

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My recent review of Birth of America has been linked over at the unfortunately named Tacticular Cancer, a sister site to the better known RPGCodex. Since they frequently link to my rants and raves, I’ve added them to my site list on the side bar. It’s a fairly decent linking site at this point, though […]

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It looks like a grand strategy game, but Birth of America is a pure wargame. No building of units, no construction of buildings (beyond the odd fort), no resouce gathering. This alone will turn a lot of people away from the game, despite the novelty of the 18th century setting. More’s the pity. AGEOD‘s first […]

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