World of Battles just shows how out of the loop I am. Someone was making a real time army building/troop collecting fantasy MMO wargame and no one told me? I probably got a PR announcement about it months ago, but today’s note from Calico Media was a bit of a surprise. Hard to tell from […]
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Starcraft II Delayed?
July 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Starcraft II Delayed? · Blizzard, Industry, RTS, Sci Fi
As Bryn Williams says, this would not be a surprise. I’ve long had doubts that Starcraft II would make Christmas 2009, and in one of our earliest podcasts I made the reckless prediction that we’d see Diablo 3 before we saw Starcraft II. Blizzard, of course, follows its own schedule. You can’t really put publishing […]
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Rise of Nations (2003)
June 10th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Big Huge Games, Feature:Map, RTS
What this is about. I go back and forth about which early decade real time strategy game is better – 2002’s Age of Mythology or Rise of Nations. Released eight months apart, there was certainly time to love both, and I do. They are even superficially similar – resource hoarding, base building, age advancing pseudo-historical […]
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Supreme Commander 2 Trailer
May 29th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Gas Powered Games, RTS
A Michael Bay joint? No gameplay shown, though I hope I’ll have some words from E3 next week on SupCom 2. Still, I would probably watch this if it were a movie since the voiceover hits every action movie cliche except “It was a time of war…”
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 13 – Tom vs Bruce vs Troy vs Julian
May 19th, 2009 · 19 Comments · Multiplayer, Podcast, Relic, RTS, Three Moves Ahead
Four men enter, two men leave as Tom and Bruce welcome their podcast partners into the oldest continuous rivalry in strategy gaming. In the first official multiplayer recap session in TMA history, the panel talks about Dawn of War 2, how the multiplayer experience holds up under the pressures of age and infirmity. Bonus files […]
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Stalin vs Martians Review and New Print Screen
May 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Print Screen, Review, RTS
I was mostly joking when I mentioned reviewing this game to Crispy Gamer’s managing editor. It is really a nothing game that no one would have cared about if its teaser videos hadn’t gone viral. It’s really a textbook case of good marketing, though it doesn’t change the fact the game is so terrible. Some […]
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