Jim Rossignol is one of the brilliant Brits behind Rock, Paper, Shotgun. And he’s written one of the year’s most delightful books on gaming. It’s probably best suited for people curious about gaming, but even experienced gamers will appreciate the prose and anecdotes in This Gaming Life. It’s not perfect, but it is well-crafted and, […]
Print Screen 7: This Gaming Life
August 1st, 2008 · Comments Off on Print Screen 7: This Gaming Life · Crispy Gamer
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WW2GenCom: Op WotR
July 31st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Industry, Wargames
Or, if you insist on writing the full name: World War II General Commander – Operation: Watch on the Rhine When it comes to awkward titles, the only things that can compete with wargames are motivational/inspirational autobiographies or journal articles on post-structural hermeneutics. I also somehow doubt that it is the “first real time operational […]
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Supreme Ruler 2020
July 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Battlegoat, Gameshark, Review
SR2020 has problems, not the least of which is the lack of any really clear explanation of how everything fits together. And it may be because a lot of it doesn’t. The more I look at the game, the more I wonder how much of it is a Potemkin village, built to look like a […]
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Historical Thinking
July 30th, 2008 · 10 Comments · History
There’s now a demo for the PC version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI, Koei’s strategy/RPG set in the declining Han Empire. I started Luo Guanzhong’s epic novel while traveling back and forth to E3. I just finished one volume and have three more to go. I’ll admit to not quite getting the popularity […]
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Three Wargames
July 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Wargames
Last night, I finally got around to request review copies of three Matrix published games. I dabbled a bit in all of them today, so here are some first impressions, based on little more than some mucking about. Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States – The tutorials are a step above click through slideshow stuff, […]
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I Think This is the Wrong Word
July 28th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Industry, Media
People who know me know that I love words and language. I’m not one of those people who gets all uptight about the misuse of the word “ironic” or who loves archaisms, but I do mourn the transition of meaning for “begging the question” and I read Fowler’s English Usage for fun. When Variety uses […]
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