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Grigsby’s War in the East

June 29th, 2009 · 15 Comments · Matrix, Wargames, WW2

Yeah, it will take forever to finish a game, but still looking forward to it.

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Slitherine Adapts Miniature Rule Set for PC

June 28th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Ancients, Slitherine

Slitherine Studios was born as a computer game company formed by two miniature wargamers (they played miniature wargames, I mean. They aren’t especially small.) A couple of years ago they took a break from computer game development to co-publish a new rule set for ancients miniatures. The Field of Glory: Ancient and Medieval Wargaming Rules […]

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Sims 3 and Religion: The Answer that Isn’t

June 23rd, 2009 · 43 Comments · Electronic Arts, Maxis, Religion

Give Tom Chick credit. He’s not afraid to ask the obvious question that puts people on the spot. Okay, well let me ask you about another tricky issue. Something that I think is conspicuously absent from The Sims is something very important in many people’s day-to-day lives. That’s religion. How come the Sims has never […]

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Empire: Total War DLC Disappoints

June 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Creative Assembly, Patches

I’ll still defend Empire: Total War to whomever wants to listen, but there is a bit of a consensus that the early reviews – mine included – were too generous to the game. Whatever. I like a lot of what it does and have continued to enjoy it in spite of the bugs in the […]

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The Return of SimEarth

June 22nd, 2009 · 8 Comments · Consoles, Electronic Arts, Maxis

I’ve always described SimEarth as a better text book than game – if you took the time to understand how everything fit together, you could learn a lot about evolution, photosynthesis, the greenhouse effect, etc. As a game, there were just too many things to juggle. Now you can download the TurboGrafX 16 CD-ROM version […]

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Theatre of War Mod Pack Available

June 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on Theatre of War Mod Pack Available · Battlefront, WW2

I hope to have more to say about Theatre of War 2 soon – I think I’ve solved most of performance issues with it, and there’s a lot of good things (and some bad) to say about it. But 1C and Battlefront is now going in whole hog with the mod support for the first […]

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