When I first heard about War Front: Turning Point, I pretty much ignored it. First, it’s from a Hungarian developer that I don’t know a lot about, so it was under my radar. Second, Company of Heroes satisfies my WWII fix. Third, I’m sure I played the plot about Hitler being assassinated last year in […]
Indie Publishing Drama Take Three
March 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on Indie Publishing Drama Take Three · Industry, Matrix, Shrapnel
Via Tacticular Cancer. After leaving Shrapnel Games last month in a confusing he said/she said over the completion/termination of 82nd Airborne, Boku Strategy Games has signed on with Shrapnel arch rival Matrix Games. Boku is the maker of the Horse and Musket series – great 18th century warfare games in dire need of a spit […]
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Hell, yes
March 25th, 2007 · 9 Comments · WW2
The upcoming Games for Windows cover story: It’s one of those “exclusive” stories—this time about the followup to Relic’s awesome Company of Heroes. Guess what? We get to kill more Nazis again!! My money is on the Eastern Front, but does that mean that we only get one new tech tree? Do they recycle the […]
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New Combat Mission Screens
March 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Battlefront
You can find them here. Looks like Syria has a lot of tires and pallets lying around. And crates. And oil drums. It’s like open air Doom.
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Changing Tastes?
March 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Changing Tastes? · RTS, Sci Fi
I can’t say too much about Command & Conquer 3 until my review is finally written and uploaded, but I will say that it gives me more reasons to buy Supreme Commander. I’ve written before about how science fiction strategy games leave me a little cold. Give me muskets. Give me swords. Give me tanks. […]
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Sins of a Solar Empire Beta
March 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments · RTS, Sci Fi, Stardock
If you pre-order Sins of a Solar Empire, you will have access to the beta testing beginning March 27. Tim Surette at Gamespot reports that Stardock is calling this a RT4X game. “Gamers looking to see if this really is a new genre will have a chance, thanks to the game’s beta test.” No, Tim, […]
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