Xcom: Enemy Unknown demo ruminations
Confronting the walking buttocks circa 1994. Woah. The new version of Xcom is coming REAL fast. When it was announced, I thought we had a year or so before it was spewed out across all us gamers. I...
View ArticleXcom Review: a finished game!
I did it. I finished a game. So rare, so unique to actually push through and complete any game I start– it must be good, right? Yes. The new Xcom delivers the turn based goodness big time. While...
View ArticleDominions 3 on Steam Green Light
Dominions 3 is trying to get on Steam. It is the best Fantasy Strategy game in existence– and it looks bad and has a tough interface with ridiculously amateur sound effects– and yet everything they...
View ArticleSome Total War stuff
Looking at the Rome Total War 2 videos (battle of Teutoburg Forest here): Other than pissing myself with glee after, during and before watching the above video, I sparked up Rome Total War: Barbarian...
View ArticlePrepare yourselves
A man from creative assembly getting is teeth kicked in by the AI in a skirmish game of Rome Total War 2 below. Soon this will be mine and yours if you chose to be a man about your computer gaming...
View ArticleWe’ve been playing games for awhile…
Pieces from what is believed to be a game (which is fairly apparent from the bits) were found in Turkey in a 5,000 year old grave site.
View ArticleRome Total War 2 initial feelings
I contemplated staying up until midnight to give it a start through but failed due to retinal burn on Saints Row 4 mostly. I should have worked on my Netrunner decks or played a solo game of ASL or...
View ArticleRome Total War 2 – 20 hours in and counting
Well, I’m about 20 hours into Rome Total War 2 and while it’s a good game, there are some really serious issues. I’ve been playing the Iceni (Britain) and they have some big horde armies, chariots,...
View ArticleDominions 4 in Beta!
Ah….Illwinter, your terrible graphics (not sprites) and terrible looking turn-based battles still make me shudder despite the fact that I love the games so much. Looks like Dominions 4 will be out at...
View ArticleThird time’s the charm
Given that the existence of the Ghanaian soccer team is to prevent the USA from advancing in the World Cup, it was amazing to see the very close victory this evening by the Yankee horde. The game...
View ArticleRome Total War 2 is now what it should have been
And it is now in the realm of pretty fucking awesome. Last year, if you bought Rome: Total War 2 it was a bit of a mistake for everyone involved, players, developers, fans, families of all involved....
View ArticleTWR 2 Victoly!
Took me (from the point of install) about a year to finish off a full campaign (really only a couple months of play once the emperor edition came out) but there it is, the first Military Victory. Some...
View ArticleSecond Rome Total War 2 video for matt
This is all about the tactical battles and a lot of babbling to boot.
View ArticleDungeon of the Endless is fun and constantly crashes
Dungeon of the Endless is yet another game on steam with the word ‘Dungeon’ in it. The game is by the same team that did Endless Space (beautiful, but not great) and Endless Legend (an ok Civ clone)....
View ArticleTotal War: Warhammer cinematic vid impression
Good, but unsurprising news, TW and WFB are slapping together! This had been rumored for a long while and then leaked in some magazine a few months back so not a shock . GW tried back in the day with...
View ArticlePit People!
Fresh on the heels of my son deleting all of his Castle Crasher characters I wanted to post the next BEHEMOTH game– which looks like their version of Disgaea! Behold! (note if you finished Battle...
View ArticleLee Sedol and Alphago
Alphago took all three games from Lee Sedol in GO, winning the 5 game series. They played on and Lee won game 4 yesterday. GOBASE.ORG has all the games set up so you can play through them and try to...
View ArticleMay: DOOM and Total War Warhammer
May 2016 is shaping up to be a very important month for PC gaming. Two absolutely critical titles are hitting the streets in the next couple weeks and it looks like i’m going to have to take a few days...
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