With the 2008 Election For Change now in full swing, the next gaming AAR to hit Flash of Steel will be a play by play of me and Bruce Geryk reliving history. Well, I’ll try to relive it. Bruce will try to stop it. He loves Nixon. 1960: Making of the President is an historical […]
January 2008 Strategy Preview
January 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Preview
First month of the new year, and not a lot to show for it strategy wise. January is sort of like December that way; most publishers have either fired their shot or are saving up for the spring rush. Looks like March and April will be full of good stuff. I am now going to […]
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Steve Bauman’s Top Ten
January 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Steve Bauman’s Top Ten · Blogs
Though he’s out of the professional commentary game, former CGM editor still knows what he likes. His list has the usual suspects but not in the order you would expect them to be in.
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Content is King: Thoughts on 2007
January 1st, 2008 · 10 Comments · Blogs, Me
Looking back on 2007 at Flash of Steel, it became apparent how important a steady stream of content is for minor blogs like mine. I took a couple of short (a week or so) breaks and traffic dipped. December was an especially bad month since I had deadlines to make plus holiday travel that got […]
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What I’ve Written For Games For Windows/1up PC
December 31st, 2007 · Comments Off on What I’ve Written For Games For Windows/1up PC · CGW
Features Feeding the Juggernaut (November 2007) Previews Theatre of War 2 Reviews Empire: Total War Contributions Tom versus Troy: Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (October 2007) Empires in Arms (part of feature on delayed games) (February 2008)
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Moments in Games Journalism
December 31st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Media
From Jack DeVries’s IGN review of Panzer Tactics: The German’s Axis Campaign is the easy mode, the Soviet Campaign is moderate, and the Western Allied Campaign is difficult. It’s an interesting choice to make the easy mode, and the tutorial, star the Nazis. What’s also interesting is that the developer did not opt for a […]
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