A weak month, I suppose, because everyone would rather enjoy the spring weather than crunch on code to get the game out in time.<\/p>\n
May 10<\/strong> – Circus Empire<\/em> (Enlight)<\/p>\n May 15<\/strong> – Nanny Mania<\/em> (Dreamcatcher), UFO Afterlight<\/em> (Cenega\/Altar)<\/p>\n May 29<\/strong> – Space Force: Rogue Universe<\/em> (Dreamcatcher\/Provox)<\/p>\n The fantasy RTS Stranger<\/strong> (Fireglow) has also been announced as a May release, but no firm word on that. Both Gamespot and Gamespy list UFO Extraterrestrials<\/em> (Chaos Concept) as a May 21-22 release, but Matrix Games has had it available since May 4.<\/p>\n UFO Extraterrestrials<\/em> has been getting some heat from the X-Com fanbase because the new game, clearly a descendant of the X-Com<\/em> idea, will not kill your troops. Think of it as one of those RPGs or RTS campaign scenarios where the game can continue so long as someone survives. But wasn’t the tension caused by the death of your troopers one of the big things in X-Com<\/em>?<\/p>\n Probably, but only for some players.<\/p>\n Chaos Concept has noted that allowing trooper death just encourages constant reloads for many players who don’t want to lose anyone. There will always be ironmen\/women who see the casualties as part of the game, but the developers think that their way of doing things is at least as good. And remember guys – it’s not X-Com<\/em>; it’s just a reasonable hand drawn facsimile.<\/p>\n In any case, UFO Extraterrestrials<\/em> will be my big title for the month. I’ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-aq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}