In another example of the intelligent use of taxpayers’ money, my homeland is looking for the Great Canadian Game. Or at least Telefilm Canada is. If it doesn’t have curling, donuts and beavers, I will be very, very disappointed. Still, this is one more reason for me to go to GDC in March.
Galactic Civilizations 2: Dark Avatar
January 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Galactic Civilizations 2: Dark Avatar · Gamesradar, Preview, Stardock
My preview is up at Games Radar. I really want to emphasize my opening paragraph there. When I started the preview, I hadn’t played GalCiv 2 in a while. I knew they’d been updating – Stardock always updates – and when the expansion is full of subtle changes, it can be hard to distinguish the […]
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New Battle for Wesnoth
January 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Indie Games
One of last year’s most developed freeware strategy games has a new and improved look. Battle for Wesnoth 1.2 adds mostly cosmetic stuff like better scaled sprites and loading progress bars, but also enhanced options for modders (there are modders?), new campaigns and better unit balance.
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January Strategy Preview
January 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Preview
Let’s start the New Year right. January 9 – Heart of Empire: Rome (Paradox/Deep Red) January 15 – City Life: World Edition (CDV/Monte Cristo) January 23 – Europa Universalis III (Paradox) January 30 – Battlestations: Midway (Eidos) So, four games. Early in the year, of course, and this is otherwise shaping up to be an […]
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Etoychest hits and misses
December 31st, 2006 · Comments Off on Etoychest hits and misses · Media
In their year end wrap-up, E-Toychest gave strategy awards to both Galactic Civilizations II (for turn-based) and Company of Heroes (for real time). Both choices are obvious. However, each entry makes at least one serious error. There were a lot of turn-based strategy games released this year, but none were quite as successful as Galactic […]
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End of Year Summary
December 31st, 2006 · 4 Comments · Blogs, Me
Since the relaunch as Flash of Steel in August, site traffic has boomed. Every month traffic has increased, from a low of 1400 in August to around 3400 in December. Not great numbers, but better than I expected. And I haven’t Carnivaled at all or participated in a Round Table very often. A lot of […]
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