There are lots of reasons to criticize Game Informer, Gamestop’s pet magazine. Subscriptions are often pushed on consumers (It’s the world’s “#1 Computer and Video Game Magazine” because of its brick-and-mortar discount, not its editorial chops), the reviews are usually quite short and descriptive, and it uses some .25 based scoring system that is even […]

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I love talking about gaming almost as much as I love writing about it. I don’t pretend to know all there is about the subject and there are a lot of intelligent people out there with some interesting opinions. And, being a mostly tech literate audience, you would expect there to be a plethora of […]

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I’m still trying to suss out the nuances in Rise of Legends. I’ve been told this is a game for RTS wonks, which I used to be but haven’t the time for now, so my initial impressions are mixed. Since I have no intelligent commentary on the game for the moment, I’ll talk a bit […]

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Bruce Geryk gets the Matrix Games newsletter, and I don’t. If I did, I probably would have written what he did, but it would have had more insulting words in it and a vague reference to Thermopylae. I wrote a defense of the RTS a while ago, so you can compare our notes and see […]

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GameSetWatch has published a design blurb for the “perfect strategy game” as envisioned by IGDA co-ordinator Michael Lubker. His vision has the usual “more, more, more” approach to game design that would be a beast to implement and probably very difficult to design a clear interface for. Lubker’s strategy vision has elements from a bunch […]

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I ordered Rise of Legends over a week ago from GoGamer. It was on sale for 35 bucks (I love 48-Hour Madness) so I snapped it up. Then, like an idiot, I chose the the cheapest delivery option. So my game is still not here. And this just when the reviews are starting to hit. […]

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