Inside GMT Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsI’ve been playing a fair amount of the old city-builder game Pharoah: Gold recently. (Bought it on sale at GoG at the beginning of the month.) And I’ve been pondering why. I have played SimCity. I have a copy of SimCity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the seventh in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the earlier reviews here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas Hearts of Iron: Europa of Iron Victoria: Nineteenth Century Essay Crusader Kings: A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, happy New Year to all reading this. 2013 was a pretty good year overall. Nothing major went wrong, no new equipment failures (though I was scared for my desktop machine for a while, like I mentioned in the last[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the sixth in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the earlier reviews here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas Hearts of Iron: Europa of Iron Victoria: Nineteenth Century Essay Crusader Kings: A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the fifth in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the earlier reviews here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas Hearts of Iron: Europa of Iron Victoria: Nineteenth Century Essay Crusader Kings: A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the fourth in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the earlier reviews here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas Hearts of Iron: Europa of Iron Victoria: Nineteenth Century Essay After two successes,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the third in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the earlier reviews here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas Hearts of Iron: Europa of Iron After Hearts of Iron, Paradox turned its[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, I normally don’t do this, but it’s just too tempting: As you may have noticed, I really like Paradox’s grand strategy titles. I mean, I’ve even started writing a series of reviews of them, that I hope will manage[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the second in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the first review here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas After Europa Universalis II, Paradox Interactive stuck with what they had proven that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For me, 1997 represents a high water mark in computer gaming. Some of this is an accident of circumstance, where I had a fair amount of free time and money, and a roommate who shared my interests. But, for me,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…