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Out For A While
January 12th, 2008 · Comments Off on Out For A While · Me
I’m on a road trip to the West Coast for the next few days, so no updates till mid-week.
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February Games for Windows
January 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments · CGW
The new Games for Windows magazine has a long cover story about Demigod, the new I’m-not-quite-sure-what-it-is from Gas Powered Games. Lots of screenshots. The key other story is the long feature on games that were delayed or canceled. In Jeff Green’s wrap-up of the problem ridden Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War, he mentions that […]
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Sins of a Solar Empire
January 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Preview, RTS, Stardock
I’ll have a full preview up soon, but I do want to keep the buzz going for Sins of a Solar Empire. For the uninitiated, it’s a real time 4X sci-fi game. Sort of a real time Galactic Civilizations, which makes sense since Stardock is publishing it. I wasn’t quite sure how you could keep […]
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Soren Johnson Interview
January 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogs, Firaxis, Maxis
Soren Johnson is also good for a quote, so it’s only natural for Rock, Paper, Shotgun to hit him up for an extensive interview about the PC market, game design and inspiration. Some highlights: On the shrinking range of AAA titles: [T]here’s still a few blockbuster Triple-A franchises that are still cranking out… but if […]
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Minotaurs in Armor
January 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Gas Powered Games
I’m not a huge Supreme Commander fan. It’s a game I respect more than I like, since I get what Gas Powered Games is trying to do though it doesn’t scratch any of my personal itches. But when their next game, Demigod, has images like this, it would be curmudgeonly of me not to get […]
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