{"id":769,"date":"2007-09-26T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T20:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/26\/gfw-debut\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T18:56:15","slug":"gfw-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/26\/gfw-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"GFW Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first (and hopefully not final) contribution to Games for Windows Magazine finally arrived today. With Bruce Geryk running around the country saving lives, he asked me to fill in for him for a Tom v Bruce article. So this month, it&#8217;s Tom versus Troy playing <em>Beyond the Sword<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great honor to pinch hit for that series, by the way. It&#8217;s not only a fan favorite, but regularly one of the first things I read in GFW. This month doesn&#8217;t quite have the humorous punch that the usual TvB has, but that sort of writing rapport takes time and we just didn&#8217;t have time to build up that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce&#8217;s wargame column shoes are being filled by Di Luo, who used to write more about games than he does now. Read the column and start some sort of write-in movement to bring him back.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, the magazine has the usual smattering of reviews and previews and another good interview &#8211; the interviews are often what I&#8217;ll read right after TvB and Line of Attack. A letter to the editor references the still mourned CGM, which makes the inclusion of a societal feature from CGM regular Lara Crigger so appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first (and hopefully not final) contribution to Games for Windows Magazine finally arrived today. With Bruce Geryk running around the country saving lives, he asked me to fill in for him for a Tom v Bruce article. So this month, it&#8217;s Tom versus Troy playing Beyond the Sword. It&#8217;s a great honor to pinch [&hellip;]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-cp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769"}],"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=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}