I glanced at a map of the territory covered in Fallout 3, and immediately noticed that my neighborhood of Metro DC is not there. Once again, Prince George’s County, Maryland gets the shaft, with not even the University of Maryland getting any love. Once again, it’s all about downtown DC, northern Virginia and Montgomery County, […]
Red Alert 3 Interview
October 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Electronic Arts, Interview, RTS
If you have any interest in EA’s upcoming Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, you should read Chris Remo’s interview with Amer Ajami and Greg Kasavin over at Game, Set, Watch. On the separation between the Red Alert and Tiberium branches of the Command and Conquer franchise: AA: Red Alert 2 was the game that […]
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Empire Campaign Video
October 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Creative Assembly, Preview
The third of five Empire: Total War videos can be found here. It has a little more information about the campaign mode, but not much. Which I suppose is to be expected. The campaign stuff doesn’t make for stirring video. Moving armies, clicking buttons, reading menus…This is not gameplay you would pay to see. We […]
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Games Media Awards 2008
October 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Awards, Media
Everyone likes prizes. Even the silly ones like “Best Mainstream Magazine Games Writer, Sponsored by Ubisoft”. Yes, the British Games Media Awards are still sponsored by the people that the media covers. Congrats to Tom Francis of PC Gamer UK who picked up Best Specialist Writer – Print Division, i.e., “best writer who works for […]
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Ironclads: American Civil War Demo Comments
October 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Indie Games, Wargames
A demo is now available for Totem Games’ 19th century naval wargame. You can play either side of the war in a multiple ship battle. My early impressions are not good, mostly because it doesn’t feel like naval combat. It’s turn based, which is fine, but you only face enemy fire on the enemy’s turn, […]
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The biggest strategy map ever?
October 17th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Design, Paradox, Preview
Paradox is promising that their upcoming WW2 strategy sequel, Hearts of Iron 3, will have 10,000 provinces. As a point of contrast, Hearts of Iron 2 had a little over 2600. So, almost a fourfold increase in territories. If my hometown Miramichi doesn’t get a separate territory, I will be a little sad. Why so […]
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