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Battleforge Early Moments

March 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Electronic Arts

As always, the trick with deck building is balance. You need to have enough low power cards to get them out early and often so you aren’t outnumbered, even high power cards to go for the kill, a mix of magic and unit cards so you don’t have to rely on army maneuvers all the […]

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Alpha Video of Elemental: War of Magic

March 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Preview, Stardock

Early video and commentary about Stardock’s upcoming fantasy strategy game:

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Stardock Rolling in Money

March 24th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Ironclad, Stardock

At his GDC presentation this week, Brad Wardell made the case for reviving the hardcore PC market but not neglecting those gamers who still like serious strategy titles. Best part of that article? His sales data. Yeah, it’s in the interest of the publisher to put the best spin on things, but 10 million in […]

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Empire Total War Debate

March 21st, 2009 · 19 Comments · Creative Assembly, Crispy Gamer, Review

One of my favorite things about Tom Chick as a critic is that he always argues a corner. A game either succeeds or fails, with little room for fence sitting. This does not mean that his reviews are not nuanced; he never ignores the good stuff or fails to contextualize the bad. His recent Empire:Total […]

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Big Huge Games For Sale

March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Big Huge Games, Industry

This was a rumor floating around most of yesterday, but I didn’t want to say anything until it was confirmed. This is yet another in a growing list of signs that THQ could have major viability problems. Big Huge Games hasn’t done an original AAA game since Rise of Legends, though its Asian Dynasties expansion […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 4

March 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Podcast, Shrapnel, Three Moves Ahead, Wargames

This week it’s all about wargaming as John Hawkins from KE Studios comes in to talk about War Plan Pacific. Julian Murdoch returns to explain why he doesn’t understand anything, Bruce Geryk would rather talk about Victory in the Pacific, Tom Chick almost rediscovers his love of wargames and Troy Goodfellow resorts to Star Trek […]

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