Via Tacticular Cancer. After leaving Shrapnel Games last month in a confusing he said/she said over the completion/termination of 82nd Airborne, Boku Strategy Games has signed on with Shrapnel arch rival Matrix Games. Boku is the maker of the Horse and Musket series – great 18th century warfare games in dire need of a spit […]
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Indie Publishing Drama Take Three
March 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on Indie Publishing Drama Take Three · Industry, Matrix, Shrapnel
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Stepping Towards the Canon
March 12th, 2007 · 7 Comments · History, Industry
Many moons ago, I posted about creating a canonical list of video games, using the National Film Registry as a model. Now we have a first step of a sort. I wanted to hit this talk at GDC but didn’t for some reason. All of the interesting panels are scheduled at the same time. Anyway, […]
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Jet-lag
March 12th, 2007 · Comments Off on Jet-lag · GDC, Industry, Me
I just flew in from California last night, so I have some serious jet-lag. I never used to get it, but I suppose I am at that point where I can’t just do anything I want to anymore. So the content will be light today. I will have more to say about GDC later, but […]
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Shouldn’t someone write this stuff down?
February 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on Shouldn’t someone write this stuff down? · Industry
Supreme Commander has been getting glowing reviews (with a couple of notable holdouts) so I have to add it to my queue of games to get. Total Annihilation rookie or not, you don’t get a new computer just so you can push hex counters along, am I right? And this is a real system pusher, […]
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Things Heard While Watching the Oscars
February 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Industry, Media, Movies
All from my lovely and brilliant wife, who is sadly out of step with the Arts page of the New York Times. “Dreamgirls is a musical?” “What is Apocalypto? I’ve never heard of that.” “There was a movie about Marie Antoinette?” “Remind me what else Martin Scorcese has done.” “Who is that?” (Repeatedly when new […]
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Best selling PC games of 2006
January 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Industry
NPD has released sales info on the top ten titles for last year. They are: 1. World of Warcraft 2. The Sims 2 3. The Sims 2 Open for Business Expansion 4. Star Wars: Empire at War 5. The Sims 2 Pets Expansion 6. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 7. Age of Empires III 8. The […]
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