Europa Universalis IV: El Dorado Review
It’s confession time: I nearly always play Europa Universalis as a European state. It’s hard not to. The era the game covers gives the European states a huge advantage. Europe…
Spacecom Review
I play many, many of highly-complex, over-involved strategy games. I find them immensely entertaining. Yet, though I enjoy multiplayer games, I almost always play strategy games alone. Such games tend…
Releases: Week of September 16th, 2014
Well, Destiny is out. There’s also a lot of mixed feelings on the game, it seems. I will briefly say, in this off-topic-as-usual monologue, it is my game of the…
Europa Universalis IV: Wealth of Nations Review
Europa Universalis IV is on the shortlist for top strategy game ever made. Its first major DLC, Conquest of Paradise, fundamentally altered exploration and expansion in the game, and is…
Spacecom Hands-On Preview
Spacecom surprised me. Space 4X games as a genre tend to be intimidating in complexity, to the extent that a certain other writer from this site tends to shut his…
Releases: Week of April 15th, 2014
It’s a good time to be a strategy gamer, that’s for sure. The big RTS franchise, Wargame releases a new game, Age of Wonder 3 came out not too long…
Crusader Kings 2: Sons of Abraham Review
Crusader Kings II has shown quite a bit of life for a game that is now approaching two years old. It was fantastic initially, and the expansions and patches along…
Rise of Venice Review
Kalypso has finally taken their series of trading simulations to Renaissance Italy in Rise of Venice. A sequel of sorts to last year’s Port Royale 3, the game includes a…
Crusader Kings 2: The Old Gods Review
Paradox’s Crusader Kings 2 has allowed me to be a French Duke. I have wandered the deserts of Araby as a Muslim Sultan. I have traded goods as a Venetian…
Company of Heroes 2 Review
I wrote my senior thesis on what Russians call the Great Patriotic War. The German invasion of the USSR resulted in what would probably rank as one the most horrific…