Sometimes ideas just don’t die. The reborn Cinemaware is remaking ye olde Defender of the Crown, to be distributed through Stardock’s TotalGaming network. The bargain price is about right, since I’m dubious that much can be added to the basic design to save it from itself. DotC was never a deep strategy game, even for […]
Entries from April 4th, 2007
Defender of the Crown: Take Three
April 4th, 2007 · Comments Off on Defender of the Crown: Take Three · Industry
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On Site Review: Air Assault Task Force
April 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Shrapnel
I’ve come to the conclusion that you either get absorbed in what the ProSim games try to do or you don’t because the games won’t let you. Pat Proctor and company have spent their energies developing very serious real time wargames, paying little attention to vagaries like UI or in game help, focusing instead on […]
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Win EU3
April 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Win EU3 · Paradox
Though it probably won’t move from very good to great until they finally get that 1.02 patch done, you can win a copy of Europa Universalis III courtesy of the developers and the people at Tacticular Cancer if you have a good idea for a game setting. Details over at TC. (I’m not entering because […]
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How Can I Miss You If You Never Leave?
April 2nd, 2007 · 14 Comments · RTS
The once-trendy “real-time strategy” (RTS) genre — popularized in the late ’90s with games such as “Blizzard’s Starcraft” and Electronic Arts’ “Command and Conquer” — is poised for its long-overdue comeback. So says the venerable Marc Saltzman over at CNN in his review of Supreme Commander. Apparently two old fashioned RTS games (SupCom and Command […]
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1 down, 94 to go
April 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Baseball, Me
Just returned from opening day at RFK where the Nationals began what is sure to be a disappointing season by losing 9-2 to Dontrelle Willis and the Marlins. Hanley Ramirez was 4 for 5 with two or three stolen bases. It was a scorchingly hot day for April, too.
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April Strategy Preview
April 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Preview
April showers a trickle of new strategy titles into the gutters of armchair generals and desktop gods. April 4 – Frontline: Fields of Thunder (Paradox/Nival), The Sims 2: Celebration Stuff (EA/Maxis) April 17 – UFO: Extraterrestrials (TriSynergy/Chaos Concept) April 19 – Theatre of War (Battlefront/1C) April 24 – Ancient Wars: Sparta (Eidos/Playlogic), Fairy Godmother Tycoon […]
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