I like it. A lot. There are certainly problems with the game, and it is far from being a perfect wargame. It suffers from the fact that, as a computer game, you can play it so many times that you learn what the AI is trying to do, spoiling the long term value of the […]
Entries from February 18th, 2009
Dawn of War II Interview
February 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Interview, THQ
Having written a column last week that said the RTS was dead, Tom Chick now has an interview with THQ’s Jonny Ebert that addresses how some developers are trying to rescue the genre through re-design. We decided if we continued on our current course, we weren’t going to succeed. RTS sales had plateaued and are […]
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New Game From ProSim
February 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments · ProSim, Shrapnel, Wargames
The ProSim line of wargames is one of those series that I love to play for a month or two before I move on to something less intense. These are serious wargames for people who like serious real time action, assuming you define action as icons moving on a satellite map. So it’s great news […]
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Robot Entertainment
February 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Ensemble, Industry
The Ensemble exiles have officially named and announced their new studio. Details on the studio’s current projects are unavailable, and it’s unclear whether Robot Entertainment will maintain a focus on the PC realtime strategy genre in which the Ensemble team specialized, or try new arenas.
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RIP HotU
February 13th, 2009 · 41 Comments · Industry
EDIT: Since this post still gets a lot of traffic, I thought I should direct people to the new HOTU. May they prosper. All the notice we had was a February 9 Twitter from the proprietor. “Home of the Underdogs webhost went bankrupt T_T.” And with that sad note from Sarinee Achavanuntakul, one of the […]
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Expertise, Enthusiasm and Game Reviews
February 12th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Media
Part Two of the Shawn Elliott sponsored game review symposium of the stars is up at his blog. More thoughts once I digest it all. A nugget from John Davison: On both PC Player, and PC Zone back in the UK, I found that it was our strategy guys more than any other that wielded […]
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