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New Combat Mission Screens

March 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Battlefront

You can find them here. Looks like Syria has a lot of tires and pallets lying around. And crates. And oil drums. It’s like open air Doom.

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Sins of a Solar Empire Beta

March 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments · RTS, Sci Fi, Stardock

If you pre-order Sins of a Solar Empire, you will have access to the beta testing beginning March 27. Tim Surette at Gamespot reports that Stardock is calling this a RT4X game. “Gamers looking to see if this really is a new genre will have a chance, thanks to the game’s beta test.” No, Tim, […]

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Europa Universalis III Again

March 18th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Gameshark, History, Paradox

Europa Universalis III is a good game. It isn’t the transcendant glory that its immediate predecessor was. It isn’t as deep as Hearts of Iron II and it’s not nearly as much fun as Crusader Kings. But it does have more going for it than the numerous complaints on the official forum would have you […]

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Everybody’s Different: Empire Earth III and RTS Design

March 15th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Design, Mad Doc, RTS

We don’t want this place to turn into Media Corner, so let’s get back to strategy games. A few months ago, I had a chance to see a very early build of Empire Earth III. (I wrote up a preview in the April CGM). Since I wasn’t a huge fan of the other Empire Earth […]

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Chris Taylor on SupCom

March 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on Chris Taylor on SupCom · Gas Powered Games, GDC

This morning, in a mostly rambling speech about the development of Supreme Commander, Chris Taylor came out looking like one of the most optimistic game designers out there. He once again talked about how the crunch-time/overtime filled development cycle is an unnecessary evil that produces worse games and bitter employees. He ridiculed the idea of […]

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Galactic Civilizations 2: Dark Avatar

February 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Review, Sci Fi, Stardock

My review is now up at Gamesradar. The long and the short of it is that this is a good expansion to a great game. A lot of other reviews have, I think, oversold how much is truly new and original here, but there is no denying that this is a must have expansion in […]

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