What this is about. I go back and forth about which early decade real time strategy game is better – 2002’s Age of Mythology or Rise of Nations. Released eight months apart, there was certainly time to love both, and I do. They are even superficially similar – resource hoarding, base building, age advancing pseudo-historical […]
Entries Tagged as 'Big Huge Games'
These are Two of My Favorite Things
May 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Big Huge Games, Industry
Take a Hall of Fame level pitcher and a Hall of Fame level designer and maybe magic can happen. 38 Studios (www.38studios.com), an entertainment and original IP creation company, today announced the acquisition of Big Huge Games (BHG) from publisher THQ Inc. The acquisition is a critical step in 38 Studios’ strategy to deliver a […]
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Big Huge Games For Sale
March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Big Huge Games, Industry
This was a rumor floating around most of yesterday, but I didn’t want to say anything until it was confirmed. This is yet another in a growing list of signs that THQ could have major viability problems. Big Huge Games hasn’t done an original AAA game since Rise of Legends, though its Asian Dynasties expansion […]
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Rise of Nations is Good for You
December 11th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Big Huge Games, Research, RTS
I go back and forth over whether Rise of Nations is my favorite RTS or the best RTS or one of my three favorite or one of the three best. These are important distinctions. The University of Illinois, however, has found that playing Rise of Nations helps seniors in a range of other cognitive processing […]
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Nobody Likes You When You’re Strange
May 2nd, 2008 · 8 Comments · Big Huge Games, Crispy Gamer, Design, RTS
RTS evangelist Tom Chick devoted his most recent column to a celebration of Rise of Legend‘s second anniversary. He talked to Big Huge Games head honcho Brian Reynolds about the game – why it worked and why it wasn’t the huge success it deserved to be. This exchange capsulizes the prevailing thinking on why the […]
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Asian Dynasties Review
December 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Big Huge Games, Ensemble, Gameshark, Review, RTS
My review of Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties can be found on Gameshark. Better late than never. The long and short of it is that the Asian nations are very powerful. Their explorers are better so they can get the early treasures faster. They age up with wonders, some of which have special powers, […]
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