Since I still don’t know what the hell I am supposed to do to make the Crispy Gamer blog software work for me, I might as well post some early impressions here.<\/p>\n
Battlegoat’s George Geczy tells me that France has a bimonthly print magazine devoted to strategy gaming, a magazine that gave Supreme Ruler 2020 almost a dozen pages over the course of year.<\/p>\n
The editors of that magazine would be very lost at E3. Not only is strategy gaming – once a dominant genre – mostly absent, but the PC itself is a rare bird. The media guide\/map, produced by GamePro, likens the golden age of PC gaming to the days when small mammals succeeded dinosaurs. If you are a PC gamer or from a place where PC gaming is still a central gaming development platform (like Europe), E3 is increasingly irrelevant.<\/p>\n
Part of the problem is that the biggest PC gaming player is not here. Blizzard says that Starcraft 2<\/em> will be ready by the end of the year, but they have their own convention now. EA\/Bioware’s MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/em> is the only PC exclusive to get any substantial comment in the wave of press conferences on Monday and Tuesday, and all we got was a cinematic trailer. We all know I love cinematic trailers.<\/p>\n Though I’ve been telling a lot of people recently that I think the PC will return as a major gaming platform, Geczy’s anecdote reminds me that platform really hasn’t gone anywhere. As global as the console business is, the console centeredness of gaming seems to be very much an American and Japanese phenomenon. Maybe I need to go to Europe or China if I want to have a convention that tells me all the neat new things I can do with my mouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since I still don’t know what the hell I am supposed to do to make the Crispy Gamer blog software work for me, I might as well post some early impressions here. Battlegoat’s George Geczy tells me that France has a bimonthly print magazine devoted to strategy gaming, a magazine that gave Supreme Ruler 2020 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-oy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}