Via Scott Krol, Gamespy has an article from John Keefer about the wargames of the past and their connection to the cons we know and love. I was reading the article (and Krol’s fact checking) as I took a break from writing my review of Armageddon Empires. Then it hit me why wargaming and serious […]
Don’t Do This
September 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment · RTS
The back of the World in Conflict manual has a list of hotkeys. The cover is a mottled brown. The middle column is printed in dark blue. And the entire thing is in five point font. Plus that have every control group creation shortcut printed. Create Control Group 1: Ctrl + 1 Create Control Group […]
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Another World
September 11th, 2007 · 4 Comments · History
At moment, I’m sitting through the very long install of World in Conflict, the Cold War Gone Hot RTS from Massive Entertainment and Sierra. The box cover shows a GI dragging two little girls to safety as a helicopter fires rockets at the Statue of Liberty. As far as settings go, this setting is pretty […]
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Just What Game Journalism Needed
September 6th, 2007 · 11 Comments · Industry, Media
I’ve always thought that gaming journalism wasn’t doing enough to serve the already dominant 16-25 male demographic. How can we do more to attract this underappreciated audience? Why not revive the failed PC Accelerator magazine, the lad-mag for nerds that stuck Stevie Case in sexy schoolteacher poses in 2000? Because if there’s one thing this […]
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Combat Mission: Shock Force Review
September 5th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Battlefront, Review, Wargames
My long delayed review of Combat Mission: Shock Force is up at Gameshark. Apologies for the crappy screenshots. The 1.01 version I played was a significant improvement from the 1.00 version that I derided a couple of months ago, derision that led to an influx of visitors from the Battlefront forums. (“Few stayed to bowl.”) […]
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September Strategy Preview
September 4th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Preview
Labor Day has always had more significance to me than New Year’s Day since my life has been dictated by the rhythm of the schools for so long. So Happy New Year. We begin to see the number of strategy titles grow, too, as we march towards the holiday season. September 3 – Seven Kingdoms: […]
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