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Entries from August 27th, 2008

Space Siege Review

August 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Crispy Gamer, Gas Powered Games, Review, RPGs

When I saw Space Siege at E3, it looked like a nice, light Action-RPG. I had no idea how light the complete version would be. To even call it an RPG is a bit of a stretch. You do have a character that improves over time, but it’s more of a Progress Quest type thing. […]

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Vae Victis

August 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Paradox, Preview

It’s will be a few months late, but it look like EU: Rome will finally be getting the interactive depths that make Europa Universalis 3 and Crusader Kings so captivating. The Vae Victis expansion pack will be only $9.99, a very reasonable price considering that they will not be extending the game’s timeline and the […]

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Soren Johnson’s Board Game Buying Guide

August 26th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Board Games

Prepare for some heresy. On Puerto Rico: “To paraphrase Groucho Marx, I don’t want to play Puerto Rico with anyone else who wants to play Puerto Rico.” On Caylus: “To me, it feels like slow-motion arm wrestling.” Other games come off much better.

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Stormrise Coming to PC

August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Consoles, RTS

Creative Assembly’s console RTS Stormrise will eventually make it to the PC. I saw the game at E3 and wasn’t really impressed. The controls looked fine, but the demo was so staged – an assault on a seemingly immobile defensive army – that I got a poor feel for how it worked in real time. […]

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What Makes A Good Gaming Blog?

August 25th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Blogs

I saw this linked by Andrew Sullivan, and I thought I would pass it on. I especially appreciated these two: Good blogs reflect focused obsessions. People start real blogs because they think about something a lot. Maybe even five things. But, their brain so overflows with curiosity about a family of topics that they can’t […]

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AGEod’s World War One: La Grand Guerre

August 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · AGEOD, Preview, WW1

The most interesting strategy news out of Leipzig is that AGEod is doing a World War I strategy game. From the press release: “World War One : La Grande Guerre 14-18” (WW1) is an historical grand strategy game, turn based, using an original engine specially developed for AGEOD by Lucas Cammisa (Calvinus) according to a […]

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