It’s not the dog days of summer yet, but we’ve already run out of strategy games. June 4 – Circus Empire (Enlight) June 5 – Hospital Tycoon (Codemasters/Big Red Software) June 19 – The Sims Pet Stories (EA/Maxis) June 22 – Arena Wars Reloaded (DTP/exDream) June 26 – Seven Kingdoms Conquest (Enlight) There’s also a […]
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More details on Civ IV: Beyond the Sword
May 17th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Firaxis, Preview
IGN has a new interview with Beyond the Sword designer Alex Mantzaris. He lets loose a lot of details that have me both excited and bewildered. * “One of my new favorite leaders is Joao II of Portugal. He’s especially fun to play because his traits (Imperialistic and Expansionist) and unique unit (Carrack) work very […]
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May Strategy Preview
May 7th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Preview
A weak month, I suppose, because everyone would rather enjoy the spring weather than crunch on code to get the game out in time. May 10 – Circus Empire (Enlight) May 15 – Nanny Mania (Dreamcatcher), UFO Afterlight (Cenega/Altar) May 29 – Space Force: Rogue Universe (Dreamcatcher/Provox) The fantasy RTS Stranger (Fireglow) has also been […]
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Commander: Europe at War Preview
April 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on Commander: Europe at War Preview · Preview, Wargames, WW2
Greg Costikyan has posted a comparative preview of Slitherine’s upcoming WW2 grand strategy game, Commander: Europe at War. Greg analyzes some of the design decisions in Europe at War in light of other attempts to model the conflict. It’s a brief essay on the mechanics of various games and how they mirror either good design […]
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April Strategy Preview
April 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Preview
April showers a trickle of new strategy titles into the gutters of armchair generals and desktop gods. April 4 – Frontline: Fields of Thunder (Paradox/Nival), The Sims 2: Celebration Stuff (EA/Maxis) April 17 – UFO: Extraterrestrials (TriSynergy/Chaos Concept) April 19 – Theatre of War (Battlefront/1C) April 24 – Ancient Wars: Sparta (Eidos/Playlogic), Fairy Godmother Tycoon […]
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More Expansion News
March 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Creative Assembly, Preview
Medieval II: Total War will be getting an expansion pack soon, subtitled “Kingdoms“. Wow. That took a lot of thought. “Kingdoms“. On to the fisking of the press release (which can be read in its entirety here.) “Kingdoms will offer an unprecedented amount of new content that gives gamers over 75 hours of epic new […]
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