Another guest this week as Ntronium Studios lead Bob Smith talks to Troy and Tom about the imminent release of Armada 2526. Bob is a veteran of Creative Assembly and has been making games for over a quarter century. Is there room for another 4x sci-fi game? And how do you differentiate one title from […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 39 – Bob Smith and Armada 2526
November 17th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Matrix, Podcast, Sci Fi, Three Moves Ahead
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Decade Feature – 2000: Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
November 15th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Battlefront, Feature:Decade, Wargames
What this is about. When I was in grade school, I had a set of painted toy soldiers. While my friends had the anonymous green plastic bazooka guys that you could buy at that time, I had dozens of colorful Polish toy soldiers obtained on multiple family trips back to Poland, and each time we […]
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Victoria 2 – “Because we can”
November 11th, 2009 · 7 Comments · History, Paradox
Fun fact: My review of Victoria for Computer Games Magazine was the first review I was ever paid for. Chris King’s opening developer’s diary for Paradox’s upcoming Victoria 2 tries to explain the thinking behind making the game in the first place, and the reasoning is still a little unclear to me. There are two […]
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Command and Conquer Comes to Conclusion?
November 10th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Electronic Arts, Industry
Always be wary of rumors, especially from sites that specialize in rumors. But Kotaku is reporting that the massive layoffs at EA will include the team making Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight. Sources tell Kotaku that the team working on Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight was warned of its fate today, with almost […]
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Favorite News Item of the Day
November 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Electronic Arts, Industry
Via Shack News: “We definitely have had some people say this is something EA shouldn’t be doing or, you know, we’re desecrating the original poem. I just don’t agree,” Dante’s Inferno creative director Jonathan Knight explains over footage of giant tentacles spilling forth from damned vulvas in a new developer diary. “We’ve taken it pretty […]
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Histwar: Les Grognards Dropped By Battlefront
November 5th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Battlefront, Indie Games, Industry, Napoleonics, Wargames
I can’t say I blame them. Histwar, an ambitious Napoleonic strategy/wargame, has been in development forever and it says something about the state of independent publishing that Battlefront stuck it out this long. I do hope the game gets finished, of course, and that it is good. But all it would take is one or […]
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