I recently submitted my Europa Universalis: Rome review, and I hope it will be online sometime in the next couple of days. A lot depends on my overworked and understaffed editors, but I’ll let you know when its up. I’ll be honest and say that I’m happy with maybe half of what I wrote, primarily […]
Entries from April 14th, 2008
Discipline is not Tyranny: In Praise of the Word Count
April 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Me, Media
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RTS Pro-Tips
April 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Gamers, RTS
Regular reader and commenter Natus has pointed me to RTS Professional, a site dedicated to teaching people how to improve their RTS game. The video player isn’t very clear, but the voice over narration helps a little. It’s a good idea to have this sort of thing in one place. They have a “fundamentals” audio […]
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IGN Strategy Column
April 12th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Media
Warplay is the new monthly strategy column from IGN’s Steve Butts. I want to use this column to call out some of the more anticipated games, speculate about what I’d like to see in the future, and generally look for cool ways to highlight the games and pre-release builds I’m currently playing. Warplay will also […]
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Age of Empires (1997)
April 11th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Ancients, Ensemble, Feature:Anc, Retro, Review, RTS
It’s now one of the most established brands in strategy gaming, but it’s easy to forget what an oddball title Age of Empires was at the time. Bruce Shelley, Sid Meier’s partner in design for many years, left Microprose to form his own studio, Ensemble. With real time strategy games quickly becoming the most popular […]
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New Political Sim
April 9th, 2008 · Comments Off on New Political Sim · Preview
I’ve never heard of Commander in Chief, but it sounds sort of familiar. In Commander In Chief, every country in the world is represented with its own unique data of over 400 key values (geographic, climatic, demographic, budgetary, environmental, etc.). Players are able to select the country of their choice and take on the role […]
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Kingdoms Patch
April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Creative Assembly, Patches
I loved the Kingdoms expansion for Medieval 2: Total War. It’s the model of what an expansion should be, I think. Now it has a patch. Among the fixes: – Dead wives no longer produce children in the Crusades campaign. So no more zombie babies.
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