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 […]
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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I’m Going to Keep Saying This Until People Listen
February 11th, 2009 · 28 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Design, RTS
Mostly, I hate the entire idea of dividing games by how time moves. There are better ways to understand game design than whether or not you have time to make a sandwich before you are overrun with Cossacks. But then Tom Chick writes: Real-Time Strategy Games are survived by its oldest son, Empire: Total War, […]
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Ready for Gettysburg 3D?
February 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Civil War, Mad Minute, Preview
This is why I have sidekicks. Norb Timpko, one of the guys behind the underappreciated Take Command games from Mad Minute has been working on a new Gettysburg game called War3DII: Gettysburg. And I had no idea that they were so far along that they’ve already been previewed in an Austrian publication. Best part? Multiplayer. […]
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