Odds are this isn’t one. A big Command and Conquer 3 announcement on August 7? Oh, whatever could it be? A movie, with all your favorite B-listers reprising their roles in the cinematic glories of Tiberium Wars? They are porting it to the Wii? EA is making a new turn based version for all those […]
Good Question
July 25th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Me
Who is Troy Goodfellow, anyway? Sometimes even I’m not sure. Can someone help the man out?
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Five Out of Five But…
July 24th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Firaxis
Fellow Civ Fanatic Tom Chick’s review of Beyond the Sword is up at Yahoo Games. It gets top marks even though he agrees with me that the espionage stuff is “a mess” and corporations are “a crap shoot.” (I disagree that all the new naval stuff makes the sea matter; in my opinion, it’s still […]
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E3 2007 Game Critics Awards Nominees
July 24th, 2007 · Comments Off on E3 2007 Game Critics Awards Nominees · Awards, E3
The nominees for The Most Pointless Awards Not Given By SpikeTV have been announced. No real surprises here, but there never are. The strategy nominees are: Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution (Firaxis/2K Games for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii) Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (Relic/THQ for PC) Halo Wars (Ensemble Studios/Microsoft Game Studios for PC, Xbox 360) […]
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Round Table Entry: Artificial Humanity
July 23rd, 2007 · 6 Comments · Design, Round Table
My gaming forum of choice has just discovered Tom Francis’ after action report of a Galactic Civilizations II campaign. As I noted in my brief mention of this AAR a couple of months ago, there’s some curiosity about how much rationalizing Francis is doing to account for the AI’s actions. This rationalization could be seen […]
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Stupid browser
July 21st, 2007 · 6 Comments · Blogs, Me
I had a long post written about game designers who add things to their game that undermine the elegance of an earlier design. I was referencing SimCity, American Civil War and Neverwinter Nights II. Then I clicked the wrong button and lost the whole thing. So you’ll have to wait for my on-site review of […]
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