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SimCity: Societies Preview

August 20th, 2007 · 6 Comments · City Builder, Electronic Arts, Gameshark, Preview, Tilted Mill

The fruit of my brief trip to EA Headquarters ten days ago can be found now on Gameshark. A lot of people will not like this game. Societies turns its back on so many SimCity assumptions that the hardcore city building audience will be astonished. Not that this is a bad thing. I agree with […]

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How the Pros See Design

August 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on How the Pros See Design · Design, Firaxis

It’s the second link to Soren Johnson’s blog in a week, but he’s answered a question that people have been asking for while. Alpha Centauri had a unit creation tool, but this feature was not included in Civ 4, even though the latter drew many lessons from the scifi title. Apparently Firaxis thought the tool […]

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Not Quite Evil

August 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments · PTD Magazine, Review

I’m reviewing Overlord for PTD Magazine, and I’m struck by how thoroughly un-evil my Overlord is. Sure, my vizier keeps telling me that I’m a dark lord and I can set sheep on fire. Even torch homes. But if evil can only exist when it is juxtaposed to good, my guy has no worries. I […]

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Warhammer Expansion

August 18th, 2007 · Comments Off on Warhammer Expansion · RTS

Namco Bandai has announced an expansion for the pretty good Warhammer: Mark of Chaos. Warhammer: Battle March will have all the usual expansion stuff, but, in an interesting move, it will be released for the 360 as well, including all the Mark of Chaos content.

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The 100 Point System Exposed

August 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Media

With the caveat that I haven’t played Bioshock yet, and that when I do it will be the PC version, is there anything more ridiculous than giving a game 99 out of 100? I am more willing to believe that a game is perfect than that it falls short of Elysium by one tiny point. […]

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Call for Contacts

August 16th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Me

I’m doing research for an article and could use a little help from my seven or eight readers. If you know someone who: a) Plays The Sims and buys every expansion, and b) Doesn’t spend a lot of time in the online Sims community, or c) Has bought the core Sims game in the recent […]

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