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Entries from October 20th, 2009

Three Moves Ahead Episode 35 – Brutal Legend

October 20th, 2009 · 22 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Skip a night and the inmates take over the asylum. Tom and Julian decide to talk about Brutal Legend, especially its strategy components. Why is BL Tom’s favorite game of the year? Are there different strategies for the RTS component? Is it an RTS at all? Also, Bruce makes a cameo appearance in the intro. […]

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Tropico 3 Early Moments

October 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · City Builder, Haemimont

I’m reviewing Tropico 3 for Crispy Gamer, but I thought I’d blog some early impressions. 1) It’s a good looking game – not very flashy and even a little blocky at times. But the colors and animations fit the cartoon Cold War they have on display. 2) The reliance on the almanac/ledger for basic information […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 34 – The EndWar show

October 13th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Design, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead, Ubisoft

Ubisoft’s Michael de Plater joins us for a fanboy grilling from Tom Chick. Why EndWar worked, its relative success and why Bruce never got to actually play EndWar for very long. Apologies in advance for Michael’s sound. His plug-in mic was not working for some reason so he talked to his laptop. Through a tin […]

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SimMars?

October 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Industry, Maxis

I love lost games. I’ve written before about a few of them – Pantheon, Dinosaurs, Zulu Wars… So the recent “discovery” of a SimMars being developed by Maxis around the time that The Sims became job one is very cool. The domination of The Sims as a franchise and cash cow has a real risk […]

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Republic of Rome

October 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Board Games

This is Bruce’s big idea, and I couldn’t help but get swept up in his mania. Regular listeners/readers probably know that it’s not common for Dr. Geryk to get energized in favor of anything post-Reagan, so his recent call for the two of us to conscript friends/colleagues and the like for a game of the […]

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The CGM Archives

October 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments · CGM

It took the new blog from my former colleague Tiffany Martin to point out how much stuff is in the Computer Magazine Online Archive. The default search engine is terrible, and it takes a few tricks to find what’s there. But it does mean I will soon be adding links to my CGM articles listed […]

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