The summer closes with some expansion packs and a delayed release. Can the fall get here a little faster?<\/p>\n
The new titles:<\/p>\n
August 28<\/strong> – Medieval II: Total War – Kingdoms<\/em> (Creative Assembly\/Sega)<\/p>\n August 31<\/strong> – Europa Universalis III: Napoleon’s Ambition<\/em> (Paradox)<\/p>\n Combat Mission: Shock Force<\/em> was released in Europe on schedule last month, but the retail release of the game was held back on this side of the Atlantic because the box version was the not ready for prime time 1.0, the version that led to a few hundred people finding this blog after I told people I wasn’t having much fun with it. And I wasn’t alone<\/a>.<\/p>\n In any case, I’m not really excited about either of the expansion packs, probably because Bioshock<\/em> is coming out on August 21<\/strong>. Bioshock<\/em> is one of those games that I haven’t been following very closely but have all of a sudden become curious about because people I trust and respect are excited about it – one of those contagious titles that I’ll buy knowing next to nothing. Apparently I’m supposed to be concerned that there are limits on my ability to kill children or something<\/a>.<\/p>\n Of course, Matrix and Shrapnel could mix things up by releasing a game that I didn’t expect. Like the former did a couple of weeks ago with Guns of August<\/em>. I’ll have some thoughts on it once I figure out what the hell I’m doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The summer closes with some expansion packs and a delayed release. Can the fall get here a little faster? The new titles: August 28 – Medieval II: Total War – Kingdoms (Creative Assembly\/Sega) August 31 – Europa Universalis III: Napoleon’s Ambition (Paradox) Combat Mission: Shock Force was released in Europe on schedule last month, but […]<\/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-bE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"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=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}