Full of the Spirit, that is. Religion in gaming is a pet topic of mine, so I thought I’d link to this month’s Escapist. I’ll point to two articles in particular for your reading pleasure. I love Nethack clones and loved to hate Ragnarok. So i enjoyed Christian McCrea’s article on that cursed game. The […]
Company of Heroes stays in the West
April 5th, 2007 · 7 Comments · CGW, WW2
It looks like the Company of Heroes add on will be a stand alone title that focuses on the British in France and the Low Countries. Caen and Market Garden. Give Jon Shafer a cookie. Fuller details are in this month’s Games for Windows magazine, though there is a teaser from Matt Leone at 1up.
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Defender of the Crown: Take Three
April 4th, 2007 · Comments Off on Defender of the Crown: Take Three · Industry
Sometimes ideas just don’t die. The reborn Cinemaware is remaking ye olde Defender of the Crown, to be distributed through Stardock’s TotalGaming network. The bargain price is about right, since I’m dubious that much can be added to the basic design to save it from itself. DotC was never a deep strategy game, even for […]
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On Site Review: Air Assault Task Force
April 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Shrapnel
I’ve come to the conclusion that you either get absorbed in what the ProSim games try to do or you don’t because the games won’t let you. Pat Proctor and company have spent their energies developing very serious real time wargames, paying little attention to vagaries like UI or in game help, focusing instead on […]
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Win EU3
April 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Win EU3 · Paradox
Though it probably won’t move from very good to great until they finally get that 1.02 patch done, you can win a copy of Europa Universalis III courtesy of the developers and the people at Tacticular Cancer if you have a good idea for a game setting. Details over at TC. (I’m not entering because […]
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How Can I Miss You If You Never Leave?
April 2nd, 2007 · 14 Comments · RTS
The once-trendy “real-time strategy” (RTS) genre — popularized in the late ’90s with games such as “Blizzard’s Starcraft” and Electronic Arts’ “Command and Conquer” — is poised for its long-overdue comeback. So says the venerable Marc Saltzman over at CNN in his review of Supreme Commander. Apparently two old fashioned RTS games (SupCom and Command […]
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