It’s the end of June, so it’s time to look back at the first six months of 2008 and see how the genre is doing. Frankly, it hasn’t been a great six months. We’ve had a lot of expansions and a few original titles, but not much in the way of new games. The good […]
Entries from June 30th, 2008
Strategy Games of the Half Year and 2008 so far
June 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Awards, Blogs, Me
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Ben Fritz Thinks Colonization is Bad
June 26th, 2008 · 16 Comments · Blogs, Design, History
Ben Fritz, a video game blogger at Variety has some issues with the upcoming Colonization expansion for Civ IV. But goddamit, am I the only one who think it’s morally disturbing to make a game that celebrates COLONIZATION? It’s ironic, actually, because just a few months ago a friend sent me a link to some […]
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More Great Patch Notes
June 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on More Great Patch Notes · Patches
The first patch for the recently released Out of the Park Baseball 9 has this nice entry: Several fixes to Cleveland Indians As of today, the Indians are 35-41 in 4th place, 6.5 games behind the White Sox. A few fixes might be in order, but not too many.
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August PCGamer and TBS
June 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · PCGamer
This month’s PCGamer has a lot of interesting stuff in it. The hardware section has a review of an item that lets you control parts of a game with your mind. Brett Todd unveils his five commandments of mod-making. Desslock sings the praises of open world RPGs while backpage columnist Ben Croshaw asks for a […]
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Print Screen Number 6 and other books
June 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Print Screen Number 6 and other books · Crispy Gamer, Print Screen
So I went ahead and reviewed Dungeons & Desktops anyway. And I didn’t like it very much. The more I read, the clearer it became that Matt Barton wanted to write two different books – an encyclopedia of CRPGs and a business/design history. It is certainly possible to meld the two, but Dr. Barton never […]
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More on Spore from Soren
June 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on More on Spore from Soren · CGW, Electronic Arts, Interview
Be sure to read Jeff Green’s interview with EA’s Soren Johnson about Spore, game design, and other stuff in the industry. 1UP: So let’s say you were just getting into the business now, but you had the same education and interests. Do you still see yourself pursuing this path on the PC? SJ: Yeah, because […]
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