A trip to Iceland prevented me from posting last week, so I’ll take this chance to remind people that watch this space that we did a Classic Game Analysis of Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander with Chris Taylor from Gas Powered Games. The conversation, naturally, turned to his struggling Kickstarter, and Rob wrote a great […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episodes 203 and 204: The Kickstarter Shows
February 6th, 2013 · Comments Off on Three Moves Ahead Episodes 203 and 204: The Kickstarter Shows · Gas Powered Games, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 57: Supreme Commander and Command & Conquer 4
March 23rd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Electronic Arts, Gas Powered Games, Podcast, RTS, Three Moves Ahead
Troy, Tom and Julian devote the hour to dissecting the surprisingly good Supreme Commander 2 and the disappointing Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight. Why does SupCom 2’s deviation from the franchise formula make the game better? Why is it like Sins of a Solar Empire and Demigod? Do we want to gain experience points […]
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Supreme Commander 2 Review
March 22nd, 2010 · 12 Comments · Gameshark, Gas Powered Games, RTS
I like Supreme Commander 2, but I totally understand why a lot of people will not. I often think about what concepts are core to a series. What makes a Europa Universalis game a Europa Universalis game? What makes Civ Civ? How much or how gradually can you change a game before it is not […]
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Large Scale RTS and their intimacy problems: SupCom 2 report
March 10th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Design, Gas Powered Games, Me, RTS
At this week’s GDC, Gas Powered Games boss Chris Taylor told Greg Tito of The Escapist that Supreme Commander 2 was one of the best games he’d ever worked on. (I’m still working my way through the campaign, but I’ll let you know if I agree with him soon.) He also said that SupCom2 was […]
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Kings and Castles
February 15th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Gas Powered Games, RTS
Gas Powered Games has announced a new fantasy RTS, named Kings and Castles. Here is a frightening video blog from GPG Boss Chris Taylor. The press release says that Kings and Castles is “an epic real-time strategy game for the PC and next-generation consoles. This one-of-a-kind experience will let players take on the role of […]
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Supreme Commander 2: A Ten Minute Presentation
November 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Gas Powered Games, RTS
Chris Taylor narrates a ten minute trailer of Supreme Commander 2. I love how the game looks, even though it is in pre-Alpha.
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