Blizzard CEO Michael Morhaime has been inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, making him the 11th inductee and the fifth of that group to have a notable background in strategy gaming (Wright, Bunten Berry, Molyneux and Meier are the others). I’ve never had the love of Blizzard RTS games […]
Entries from December 12th, 2007
Culture and Conflict
December 11th, 2007 · 8 Comments · CGW, History, Society
This month’s Games for Windows has an interesting feature story on the use of Native Americans as protagonists in Age of Empires III: Warchiefs and Prey. Michael Sheyahshe does a good job of getting the viewpoints of the developers on the use of Native American perspectives and voices. Let’s face it, this is the kind […]
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Armageddon Empires Again
December 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · CGW, Indie Games
It looks like Vic Davis’s labor of love is getting a little more publicity. This month’s Games for Windows magazine has Tom and Bruce playing Armageddon Empires (each on their own, but comparing progress) and Bruce devotes his still-too-short column to the game. Of course, if you don’t know anything about the game, the account […]
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The Year in Video Games
December 10th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Blogs
As an unreconstructed wishy-washy moderate, I read Slate daily. It’s how I stay non-committal on so many things. And this year they have decided to publish a year end wrap up discussion on video games. The discussants are all top notch talents, too. Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal, the New York Times’s Seth Schiesel, MTV’s Stephen Totilo […]
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Asian Dynasties Review
December 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Big Huge Games, Ensemble, Gameshark, Review, RTS
My review of Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties can be found on Gameshark. Better late than never. The long and short of it is that the Asian nations are very powerful. Their explorers are better so they can get the early treasures faster. They age up with wonders, some of which have special powers, […]
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Management Failure at Gamespot?
December 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Media
A wise man once said to never assume malice where incompetence is a sufficient explanation. That may be the deal at Gamespot regarding the termination of their editorial director, Jeff Gerstmann. Though many people are pointing to the threatened “mass resignations” in this Kotaku article that cites yet another anonymous source, for me the big […]
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