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Entries from November 17th, 2008

Most Pointless Teaser Trailer Ever

November 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments · RTS

So do we learn anything about East India Company from this video that we couldn’t have figured out from the game’s title?

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Pottinger on Halo MMO and Halo Wars

November 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Consoles, Ensemble, Industry, RTS

Shacknews has uploaded part one of two part interview with Ensemble Studios about Halo Wars. Today’s portion is Dave Pottinger talking about where things are at. The headline opens with Age of Empires Dev Ensemble Speaks Out on Studio Closure which is true only in the most narrow and literal way. Pottinger says nothing that […]

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Tropico 3

November 14th, 2008 · 12 Comments · City Builder

I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there will be a new Tropico, the celebrated city building/person managing game series. Neither of the Tropicos were great games, but they had a spark of innovation and cleverness that the genre generally lacks. The banana republic themed first one was […]

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The Thinking Gamer?

November 12th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Crispy Gamer

Crispy Gamer underboss Elise Vogel pointed us to this article in which CG is toasted as a top video game site for gamers who don’t drool. This is the niche that EIC John Keefer wanted to be in, and the list is pretty good company. From Killingsworth’s intro: All five of the websites/blogs I am […]

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Les Grognards Screenshots

November 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Battlefront, Napoleonics

There are 40 new screenshots of the long in development Histwar: Les Grognards here. Pretty, but it looks awfully dark. Is it always raining in Europe? Or in a state of permanent twilight?

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East is East and West is West

November 12th, 2008 · 12 Comments · AGEOD, Wargames, WW1

Quick question for AgeOD, a studio whose games I’ve championed for the last few years: Why in the name of Mercator would you do a wargame with the continent of Europe as the centerpiece and have the map turned 70 degrees? I thought I could deal with this since a) I’m not a moron, and […]

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