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Big Time Patch Week

December 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Firaxis, Patches, PCGamer, Stardock

Last week saw the unveiling of two huge patches for two huge turn based strategy games – in fact the two most disappointing games of the year in the eye of departing Fidgit blogger Tom Chick. I won’t go as far as Tom does regarding Civilization 5. It had a lot of AI problems, and […]

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Catching Up on the Portfolio

December 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Gameshark, Me, PCGamer, Podcast

What a last couple of months. So busy on the personal and professional side of things, helping other people with their stuff, reorganizing my office, and publishing all kinds of reviews and the like. Some things are written but not up. The portfolio will be updated later today. But here’s a quick update. Gameshark Sims […]

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December 2010 PCGamer

October 19th, 2010 · 8 Comments · PCGamer

I have three pieces in this month’s issue. My column tackles the issue of story based campaigns in RTSes (and why Starcraft 2’s is still terrible), I preview the upcoming scifi 4x game Sword of the Stars 2 and I review Victoria 2. There are also reviews from other people of Elemental and RUSE. I’ll […]

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November PC Gamer

September 28th, 2010 · 5 Comments · PCGamer

This month, just my Tactical Advantage column and I spend 600 words on stylized maps like the ones you find in Ancient Trader, Hannibal: Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War and the global zoom in Victoria 2. I’ve already spent a lot of time on this blog talking about maps. I did a […]

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What I’ve Written For PCGamer

September 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · PCGamer

October 2010: Tactical Advantage (intro column), Disciples 3 Review

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PCGamer and Me

August 18th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Me, PCGamer

I am told that I am in the new PCGamer, so it must be true. I only recently resubscribed, so I don’t have it yet. I trust that my readers are not lying to me, so next time I am at a newsstand, I’ll pick it up. I am the new writer of the recently […]

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