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Red Alert 3 Faction Preview

August 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Red Alert 3 Faction Preview · Electronic Arts, Preview, RTS

Tom Chick at Fidigt has published the first installment of a series about the upcoming Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. He starts with the Allies. I was never a big Command & Conquer person until C&C 3 came along, so I can’t be certain how many of the units and descriptions radically deviate from […]

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Where Do Ideas Come From?

July 25th, 2008 · 13 Comments · Design, Electronic Arts, Wargames

Last year, Irrational’s Ken Levine famously said that the problem with most game designers is that they’ve read one book (Lord of the Rings) and seen one movie (Aliens). It was typical Levine exaggeration, but the point was clear – game designers (and, I would add, games journalists) take their entertainment cues from a small […]

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More E3 Previews

July 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Akella, E3, Electronic Arts, Gameshark, Preview

Disciples III: Renaissance Crysis: Warhead Lord of the Rings Conquest

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Command and Conquer 3: Red Alert

July 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · E3, Electronic Arts, Gameshark, Preview

My preview can be found here.

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Disciples III and Red Alert

July 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Akella, E3, Electronic Arts

I saw two strategy games today, Disciples III from Akella and Command and Conquer 3: Red Alert from EA. And I think I’m equally interested in both. Now I’m not a huge Disciples fan, so I’m sure a lot of this had to do with the contrast between the game and the environment it was […]

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More Spore

July 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Design, Electronic Arts, Industry

Today, Brandon Sheffield and Chris Remo interview Soren Johnson at Gamasutra. They mostly focus on Spore, but also there is some general commentary about strategy gaming, publisher expectations and designing without a core audience in mind. Some snippets: For example, we have a super-weapon system, which is something that came along maybe six months ago, […]

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