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Entries from December 31st, 2008

Print Screen December

December 31st, 2008 · Comments Off on Print Screen December · Crispy Gamer, Print Screen

Final Print Screen of the year is up at CG. Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business was recommended by Crispy Czar John Keefer, and it’s a good read. I do wonder who the audience is, though.

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2008 End of Year Strategy Wrap-Up

December 30th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Awards

Another year, another set of worlds to destroy. It wasn’t a great year, in spite of a couple of high profile releases. Only a couple of games were good enough to distract me from me Civilization IV or Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties for very long. And, of the relatively few wargames I played […]

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Age of Ensemble Reflections

December 29th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Ensemble, History, Industry

Now that the series is complete and I have some distance from it, I can probably reflect a little more about the Ensemble three parter. I’m most happy with how open everyone was, especially with their criticisms of their own work. The series would simply not have been as interesting as it was if Shelley, […]

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Back to Business

December 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Back to Business · Me

A little jet-lagged, but I’m alive. I hope to get a more serious post up later today, and maybe by tomorrow I can post the year end strategy game award list. I really need a better name than that.

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Holiday Hiatus

December 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Me

The Christmas season is here and full of the usual running about and family stuff. So not much time for gaming or heavy thinking. Maybe some light reading. I’ll return shortly with the annual year end summary of the state of strategy gaming in 2008 and maybe some hopes for the new year. Have a […]

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History of Ensemble Part 3

December 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Ensemble, RTS

The final part of my Ensemble history is now up. By the way, if you enjoy this sort of story, please let CG know by commenting in the comment box there. Yeah, it means another registration for another site, but I’ve become a real zealot for what the site is trying to do, especially since […]

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