The upcoming Games for Windows cover story: It’s one of those “exclusive” stories—this time about the followup to Relic’s awesome Company of Heroes. Guess what? We get to kill more Nazis again!! My money is on the Eastern Front, but does that mean that we only get one new tech tree? Do they recycle the […]
Entries from March 25th, 2007
New Combat Mission Screens
March 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Battlefront
You can find them here. Looks like Syria has a lot of tires and pallets lying around. And crates. And oil drums. It’s like open air Doom.
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Changing Tastes?
March 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Changing Tastes? · RTS, Sci Fi
I can’t say too much about Command & Conquer 3 until my review is finally written and uploaded, but I will say that it gives me more reasons to buy Supreme Commander. I’ve written before about how science fiction strategy games leave me a little cold. Give me muskets. Give me swords. Give me tanks. […]
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Sins of a Solar Empire Beta
March 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments · RTS, Sci Fi, Stardock
If you pre-order Sins of a Solar Empire, you will have access to the beta testing beginning March 27. Tim Surette at Gamespot reports that Stardock is calling this a RT4X game. “Gamers looking to see if this really is a new genre will have a chance, thanks to the game’s beta test.” No, Tim, […]
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As usual…
March 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · CGM, Media
Tom Chick says it all. He’s written the best eulogy on the best job I ever had.
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Rise of the Bauman
March 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Blogs
You can’t keep a good writer down, so Steve Bauman has started blogging, opening with a reflection on what 300 and Children of Men can teach game designers about narrative. Read his wisdom at Manic Pop Thrills. No, I don’t know what that means either.
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