What this is about. The just shall live by faith and kill by hellmouths. Sacrifice is the very definition of a cult hit. Like so many other strategy games that have come and gone through the years, it attracted a small and devoted following but never really got the traction that the Starcrafts and Warcrafts […]
Entries Tagged as 'Feature:Decade'
Decade Feature – 2000: Shogun Total War
October 30th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Creative Assembly, Feature:Decade
What this is about Know the enemy, and know yourself It seems fitting that 2000 should have seen the release of Shogun: Total War, the inaugural entry in one of the decade’s defining strategy series. Combining turn based empire-building with spectacular tactical battles, Shogun was the game I had always wanted. Strategy and tactics were […]
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Feature Series Authors
October 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Feature:Decade
The decade feature series is almost ready to go, but an introduction is in order. You all know me, and you all know one of my collaborators. Bruce Geryk has been a friend of FoS since and an occasional contributor when we did those board game duels. He’s also, of course, a regular panelist on […]
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Feature Series: The Decade Wrap Up
October 22nd, 2009 · 14 Comments · Feature:Decade, Industry
We are now in the final year of the first decade of the 2000s. Well, not really. Since there was no year zero, decades begin on a 1 not a 0. But people don’t think like that. It’s the 1920s or 1760s or 1590s, right? So we are now in the final years of the […]
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