The year comes to a close with a bit of a whimper, most of the big seasonal titles having already come out. There is no late flurry of releases at all. Gamespot has a single firm date for a strategy title.<\/p>\n
December 8<\/strong> – State of War: Warmonger<\/em> (Alten8\/Cypron)<\/p>\n Seven Kingdoms: Conquest<\/em> (CDV\/Enlight) and Spellforce 2<\/em> (Aspyr\/JoWood) are both listed by Gamespy as “Holiday 2006” releases, whatever that means. Sparta: Ancient Wars<\/em> (Playlogic\/World Forge) is listed in some places as a late December release, but there hasn’t been a Gold announcement yet, as far as I know.<\/p>\n So the year of strategy gaming is pretty much done. I have a bunch of games to play from the last month, though. Yet another Euro-RTS arrived today, and I still want to get my review of Dominions 3<\/em> out there. Warhammer: Mark of Chaos<\/em> is on its way, too. Plus all these hex wargames. And Forge of Freedom<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The year comes to a close with a bit of a whimper, most of the big seasonal titles having already come out. There is no late flurry of releases at all. Gamespot has a single firm date for a strategy title. December 8 – State of War: Warmonger (Alten8\/Cypron) Seven Kingdoms: Conquest (CDV\/Enlight) and Spellforce […]<\/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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-8c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}