I’ve just returned from an exhausting in-and-out trip out west to take a look at EA/Tilted Mill’s upcoming city builder SimCity: Societies. I bought a huge biography of Timur to read on the flight out west but ended up going through the whole thing during my four and a half hour wait on the tarmac […]

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Who is Troy Goodfellow, anyway? Sometimes even I’m not sure. Can someone help the man out?

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I have three reviews to finish, a couple of previews to draft and a zillion screenshots to take. But my review build of Beyond the Sword just showed up. Guess what wins?

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I have returned from my hiatus, which was, in fact, four days in Columbus, Ohio for the Origins Convention. I was, with a handful of other strategy and war game journalists, a guest of Matrix Games, so I have every opportunity to talk to designers whose work I admired and designers whose work needs more […]

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Just a note that with the holiday coming up and some work on my schedule, there won’t be much time for blogging until early next week. So go read someone else for a few days. In the meantime, I have disabled comments, more to prevent me from logging in and checking things than anything else. […]

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