The official Europa Universalis III forums have a weekly development update that tends to dangle little delights in the form of screenshots and brief commentary from lead programmer Johan Andersson. This week’s was a modest shot of the monarch info screen, but the post describes how the nation tag system has been replaced by something […]

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E3 is the biggest gaming event of the year even when nothing happens. So when two new consoles are introduced, its gravitational pull is enough to obliterate all other gaming news in the immediate vicinity. Take the release of Big Huge Games’ Rise of Legends, one of the games that I’ve been most looking forward […]

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It’s not often that Wargamer’s Jim Zabek makes some major errors, but I guess E3 brings out the worst in everyone’s fact checking, as his E3 preview of Europa Universalis III makes clear. The game does not “cover…the Middle Ages”; 1453-1786 is the early modern period. And “Defender of the Faith” was in the previus […]

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Matrix Games has announced that it will be publishing Harpoon 3 Advanced Naval Warfare. Advanced Gaming Systems has been keeping the Harpoon flame alive for quite a while now, but H3 has been in “community beta”status for a while. The big deal about Harpoon 3 is that it has multiplayer. The original Harpoon was the […]

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Here’s a preliminary list of the strategy and wargames on display at next week’s E3. ———————————————————————————– Aggression: Europe 1914 – real time strategy game from Buka Entertainment that covers the years 1914-1945. Battle for Atlantis – fantasy real time strategy game from Play Ten interactive set in pre-classical Greece CivCity: Rome – Firefly and Firaxis […]

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Now that E3 is around the corner, we can expect a lot more bloggish criticism of how the game media does its job. And where E3 is concerned, there are a lot of valid issues. The coverage is often shallow, focused on glitzy presentations and chasing the same two or three stories. These reports will […]

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