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Entries Tagged as 'Big Huge Games'

Flailing Elephants

October 16th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Big Huge Games, Design, History, RTS

From Big Huge Games’ Andrew Auseon at the Asian Dynasties blog at IGN. A good example of when the element of history bowed to the element of fun was the Flail Elephant. The Indian civilization can train a siege elephant that swings a weighted chain from the end of its trunk. The only accounts of […]

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Asian Dynasties Demo

October 5th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Big Huge Games, RTS

You can get the demo of Age of Empire s III: Asian Dynasties over here. It has a single campaign mission and one new Civ, the Japanese. The Japanese will pose some interesting problems for Age players. First, no hunting allowed. Animals are used to increase the productive output of shrines instead. Build a shrine […]

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Catan on Xbox

May 8th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Big Huge Games, Board Games, Consoles

It’s odd, but the prospect of playing an online version of Settlers of Catan with high production values has me closer to dropping coin on a console than all the zombie/alien/robot killing glamor that the living room gamers have been screaming about for years. So it’s reassuring to read Julian Murdoch’s positive impressions of Big […]

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Big Huge Role Playing News

February 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Big Huge Games, RPGs

Big Huge Games is moving away from the strategy genre for a while, it seems. Next Generation is reporting that Bethesda Softworks veteran Ken Rolston is signing on with the RTS masters to make a role playing game. A console role playing game, by the way. They haven’t said which console, but considering the company’s […]

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