It hasn’t been a well kept secret, since various online vendors have been listing the title for a while. But THQ and Relic will be releasing another standalone expansion for Company of Heroes. With fresh new campaigns and multiplayer modes, brand-new units, additional maps and the introduction of the ‘direct-fire’ feature, we’re once again committed […]
Red Alert 3 Smackdown
November 2nd, 2008 · 8 Comments · Media, RTS
Rock, Paper, Shotgun has linked to a debate between a hardcore RTS player and PCGamer/Gamesradar RTS reviewer Dan Stapleton. The short version is that Stapleton gave Red Alert 3 a very positive review but AGMLauncher at Game Replays finds the review too short and uninformative. From what is written, AGMLauncher judges that Stapleton is unqualified […]
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Kelly Hu, Jenny McCarthy and J.K. Simmons
November 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments · Electronic Arts, RTS
Red Alert 3 hasn’t grabbed me yet – it’s more average than anything else – but there is lots of cleavage that I try hard not to look at because that would be rude. Does anyone find it odd that in this alternate universe all the women are very attractive and drawn to the most […]
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A Dubious Pre-Order Gift and more
October 29th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Creative Assembly, Industry, Napoleonics
If you pre-order Empire: Total War, you will get Rome: Total War for free. Yeah, Rome is half a decade old. But I would think that most of the people who would consider pre-ordering Empire already have Rome. You can get it very cheaply now, after all. No word on whether or not Barbarian Invasion […]
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Nile Online
October 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · City Builder, Tilted Mill
Tilted Mill is having a busy year. An expansion for SimCity Societies, an expansion for Children of the Nile, Hinterland, Mosby’s Confederacy and now Immortal Cities: Nile Online, a browser based city builder that will probably be a prettier and more sophisticated version of Travian or Ikariam. Like Ikariam, Nile Online is about resource trading. […]
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“A Lost Ludology”
October 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Board Games, Wargames
I just returned from a seminar discussion at the University of Maryland led by Dr. Matt Kirschenbaum of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. The topic was advertised as “A conversation about the long history and seemingly unlikely combination of warfare and gaming” but ended up being a discussion that had the usual […]
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