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Sins of a Solar Empire Post Mortem

April 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on Sins of a Solar Empire Post Mortem · Industry, Ironclad, Sci Fi

I love post mortems on game design. You can learn a lot about the business and about developers as individuals. It’s always astonishing how close some games come to failure before they even hit the marketplace, where most of them will fail anyway. Sins of a Solar Empire was not a failure. Read about how […]

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Europa Universalis: Rome review

April 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Ancients, Crispy Gamer, Paradox, Review

My Europa Universalis: Rome review is now up at Crispy Gamer. I did an interview with Johan Andersson that doesn’t seem to be up yet, but I’ll let you know when it goes live. The review was based on a gold review build; the day one patch has fixed some of the issues. You can’t […]

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The Brilliance of Stupidity

April 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · RTS

I have few illusions that this will be a great game, but if Stalin vs. Martians doesn’t make you just a little curious, you have are clearly a soulless creature. Maybe even a commie space man. Vopros: Can we play as Stalin himself? Otvet: Yes, but not from the start. Stalin is our commander and […]

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Rod Humble is EA’s Heart

April 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Electronic Arts, HPS

Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a transcript of John Walker’s dinner conversation with EA Sims VP Rod Humble. Like all interesting dining chats, it covers a lot of ground. And this bit from Rod Humble shows that the Redwood City campus isn’t staffed by corporate robots. The one game that affected me, and it didn’t stop […]

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Grand Theft Childhood

April 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Crispy Gamer, Print Screen

My new Print Screen column is up at Crispy Gamer. I review Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson’s Grand Theft Childhood. There is a lot in the book that I didn’t go over in any detail in the column. One thing I do want to add is how aware Kutner and Olson are that gaming is, […]

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Best News of the Year

April 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Industry

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is coming back to the PC this July. You may now dance.

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