I sometimes flake on linking my Gameshark stuff, but here’s my recent Q&A with Creative Assembly about the upcoming Empire: Total War. This is the game highest on my radar for 2009.
Entries Tagged as 'Developers'
Bruce Shelley a Hall of Famer
December 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on Bruce Shelley a Hall of Famer · Awards, Ensemble
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. I spoke to Mr. Shelley a few weeks ago, and he was very generous with his time when I was writing my series on ancient games. Of the twelve inductees, six have reputations in the strategy game arena – Meier, Wright, Molyneux, Bunten, Morhaime and now Shelley. The genre […]
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War Plan Pacific Gold
November 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Shrapnel, Wargames
Mid December release looks likely. Stay tuned.
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Vae Victis First Impressions
November 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Paradox, Review
I will have more to say about the EU: Rome expansion and how the game expands the roles of characters, not always to good effect, but here are some initial thoughts about Vae Victis‘s strengths and weaknesses. – Big warning. It’s very unstable. I’ve had the game crash at least a dozen times, usually through […]
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More on Halo Wars
November 18th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Design, Ensemble, Preview, RTS
Dan Hsu has an interview with Dave Pottinger and Graeme Devine at Crispy Gamer. It has the now standard “yeah it sucked but we’re going forward” non-comment on the closing of Ensemble, but, most importantly, lots of juicy bits about the upcoming console RTS Halo Wars. Devine adds this bit of development chronology that I’m […]
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Pottinger on Halo MMO and Halo Wars
November 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Consoles, Ensemble, Industry, RTS
Shacknews has uploaded part one of two part interview with Ensemble Studios about Halo Wars. Today’s portion is Dave Pottinger talking about where things are at. The headline opens with Age of Empires Dev Ensemble Speaks Out on Studio Closure which is true only in the most narrow and literal way. Pottinger says nothing that […]
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