CGOnline has posted a very detailed interview with GSC Gameworld’s Oleg Yavorsky. The subject is their latest RTS and it sounds…interesting. The whole “RPG or RTS?” divide is what Heroes of Annihilated Empires will have going for it in a year already crowded with interesting strategy games. Last year’s Dragonshard had a little bit of […]

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Jason Ocampo has written a very encouraging preview of Galactic Civilzations II: Dark Avatar. Espionage, mining colonies, terraforming research…if weren’t for the promise of a streamlined tech tree, it could be confused for Space Empires V.

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My friend asked me for another game last week. After his experience with Pirates! (which he eventually got working), the first thing he asks me is whether any game I recommend will run on his laptop. He picked up Medieval II on his own. He loved Rome and was really looking forward to Medieval II. […]

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I won’t be updating with serious content this week because the holiday frenzy is here. House cleaning, turkey cooking, plus three or four things that need to be written. But expect a late reflection on another book on my shelf by Friday. And maybe some thoughts on system requirements.

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When I saw Gamespot had screens of a new game called Myth War, I got my hopes up that it would be a revival or spin-off of the great Bungie fantasy wargame. Sadly, no. It’s just another fantasy MMO. Wake me when they set an MMO in Moghul India. This VGResource editorial on how many […]

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