It’s not the dog days of summer yet, but we’ve already run out of strategy games. June 4 – Circus Empire (Enlight) June 5 – Hospital Tycoon (Codemasters/Big Red Software) June 19 – The Sims Pet Stories (EA/Maxis) June 22 – Arena Wars Reloaded (DTP/exDream) June 26 – Seven Kingdoms Conquest (Enlight) There’s also a […]
Aging Gracefully?
June 2nd, 2007 · 3 Comments · Me
The first game I bought for my Xbox 360 was MLB 2K7. The local used CD shop had it on sale and baseball is the best game. I really love my management sims, so the chance to relive my action sports days with my Washington Nationals is very appealing. Boy do I suck. Part of […]
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Twilight Struggle Turn Two
June 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments · AARTwiStr
If you missed Turn One, you should read that so you can see where we were. If you already read it and forgot what happened, I can summarize. Bruce is killing me in Europe. On to the second turn. TURN 2 Headline: USSR Suez Crisis (-1 Israel, -2 France, -1 UK) USA: CIA created (event). […]
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Another Milestone 5000
May 31st, 2007 · 7 Comments · Blogs
In August 2005 I made a big deal about passing the 5000 hit counter for all time. That took about nine months. May 2006 on its own will have 5000 hits. Plus the few dozen who get the feed through Feedburner or Bloglines or Google Reader or what have you. Traffic is growing steadily and […]
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Klett Quits, Column gets Stapled
May 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment · PCGamer
PCGamer’s editorial staff would probably say that their big strength is their ability to grab exclusives. For me, the big strength is their columns. They have genre specialists writing every month, including Desslock on RPGs and Andy Mahood on simulations. I’m hard pressed to think of two better people for those particular genres. (Games For […]
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Soviet Thoughts on Turn One
May 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment · AARTwiStr
There are only three scoring cards in the Early War and all appeared this turn, which means it’s likely none will turn up until Turn 3 and the deck is re-shuffled. So Turn 2 will be a mess. Turn 1 was a special kind of mess, since we both tried to get points very early. […]
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