If you pre-order Empire: Total War, you will get Rome: Total War for free. Yeah, Rome is half a decade old. But I would think that most of the people who would consider pre-ordering Empire already have Rome. You can get it very cheaply now, after all. No word on whether or not Barbarian Invasion […]
Entries from October 29th, 2008
A Dubious Pre-Order Gift and more
October 29th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Creative Assembly, Industry, Napoleonics
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Nile Online
October 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · City Builder, Tilted Mill
Tilted Mill is having a busy year. An expansion for SimCity Societies, an expansion for Children of the Nile, Hinterland, Mosby’s Confederacy and now Immortal Cities: Nile Online, a browser based city builder that will probably be a prettier and more sophisticated version of Travian or Ikariam. Like Ikariam, Nile Online is about resource trading. […]
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“A Lost Ludology”
October 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Board Games, Wargames
I just returned from a seminar discussion at the University of Maryland led by Dr. Matt Kirschenbaum of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. The topic was advertised as “A conversation about the long history and seemingly unlikely combination of warfare and gaming” but ended up being a discussion that had the usual […]
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I want to be a mutant, too
October 27th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Me
I glanced at a map of the territory covered in Fallout 3, and immediately noticed that my neighborhood of Metro DC is not there. Once again, Prince George’s County, Maryland gets the shaft, with not even the University of Maryland getting any love. Once again, it’s all about downtown DC, northern Virginia and Montgomery County, […]
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Red Alert 3 Interview
October 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Electronic Arts, Interview, RTS
If you have any interest in EA’s upcoming Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, you should read Chris Remo’s interview with Amer Ajami and Greg Kasavin over at Game, Set, Watch. On the separation between the Red Alert and Tiberium branches of the Command and Conquer franchise: AA: Red Alert 2 was the game that […]
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Empire Campaign Video
October 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Creative Assembly, Preview
The third of five Empire: Total War videos can be found here. It has a little more information about the campaign mode, but not much. Which I suppose is to be expected. The campaign stuff doesn’t make for stirring video. Moving armies, clicking buttons, reading menus…This is not gameplay you would pay to see. We […]
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