Just returned from opening day at RFK where the Nationals began what is sure to be a disappointing season by losing 9-2 to Dontrelle Willis and the Marlins. Hanley Ramirez was 4 for 5 with two or three stolen bases. It was a scorchingly hot day for April, too.
April Strategy Preview
April 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Preview
April showers a trickle of new strategy titles into the gutters of armchair generals and desktop gods. April 4 – Frontline: Fields of Thunder (Paradox/Nival), The Sims 2: Celebration Stuff (EA/Maxis) April 17 – UFO: Extraterrestrials (TriSynergy/Chaos Concept) April 19 – Theatre of War (Battlefront/1C) April 24 – Ancient Wars: Sparta (Eidos/Playlogic), Fairy Godmother Tycoon […]
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Define “majority”
March 31st, 2007 · 7 Comments · Electronic Arts, Multiplayer
Just to be clear: Not everyone is having problems playing on-line… the majority of people are able to get online, play games, and a have a great time. That’s EA Executive Producer Mike Verdu on the continuing problems with Command and Conquer 3 multiplayer. It worked fine out of the box, but the patches have […]
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More Expansion News
March 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Creative Assembly, Preview
Medieval II: Total War will be getting an expansion pack soon, subtitled “Kingdoms“. Wow. That took a lot of thought. “Kingdoms“. On to the fisking of the press release (which can be read in its entirety here.) “Kingdoms will offer an unprecedented amount of new content that gives gamers over 75 hours of epic new […]
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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
March 28th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Firaxis, Preview
The second expansion to the game I still play every night has been announced. You can get the full press release over at 2k Games. I’ll highlight some of the passages for commentary. “The expansion will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder.” I start to lose interest in Civ IV […]
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Command and Conquer 3 Review
March 27th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Electronic Arts, Gamesradar, RTS
My review of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is up at Gamesradar. I really like this game. The more I play it, the more I think I should have invested time in at least some of the other CnC games.
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