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Working out Aggression

November 21st, 2007 · 7 Comments · Preview, RTS

Playlogic has acquired the rights to Lesta’s upcoming RTS Aggression: Reign over Europe. Year old screenshots from an earlier iteration dubbed Aggression: Europe 1914 can be found at Gamespot. Highlights from the press release, with some of my own whining: Choose your side – Germany, France, Russia or England – and become the most powerful […]

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Thanksgiving Blessings

November 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Me

Blessing Number One: Getting your brother-in-law hooked on Company of Heroes.

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Nethergate Review

November 16th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Gameshark, Review, RPGs

My review of Nethergate: Resurrection is up at Gameshark. The text pretty much says it all. I have a fondness for the Spiderweb games, so your mileage may vary. But if you like RPGs with tons of sidequests and turn based combat, you owe it to yourself to try the demo.

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Light Blogging for a While

November 13th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Me

The Thanksgiving holiday will be here soon, so I have to do prep for a family holiday. That means cleaning, shopping, buying mints for pillows, etc. so there won’t be a lot of new content here for the next ten days. I will, however, give you a few incomplete thoughts about things I am playing. […]

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How Did QA Miss This?

November 8th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Patches

From the 1.1 patch notes for Empire Earth III: Modern era submarines no longer shoot torpedoes at airplanes

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Starting at the Cliff Face

November 8th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Blogs, Design

Zack Hiwiller has recently posted one of those essays that makes you nod your head in agreement and silently tell yourself that this is what you’ve been complaining about for years. Sports games are too hard. More precisely, they are very difficult for new or lapsed gamers to get into; they require you to have […]

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