My friends and I have an unspoken and inconsistent tradition of buying each other games around Christmas time. There’s about 7-8 of us that have known each other for 20+ years. We also gift games randomly at other times of the year, and sometimes one of us watches […]
Accolade published Star Control II: The Ur Quan Masters in 1992. PC gaming was – if not in its infancy – a drooling, stumbling toddler. The original Civilization had only just released the previous year. It was an early time in game design and most of the tropes, […]
From the earliest days of eXplorminate back in 2014, the Weekly eXchange has changed and grown. It first started out as a YouTube show where Ben (Warmacblu) and I, talked over video footage. It was a great idea, but it was too much work for what ended up […]
Like any card carrying geek, I have an instinctual attraction to Vikings and Norse mythology. Mead halls and raiding. Longships and battle axes. Godly offerings and plunder. Romanticizing about Viking life and forgetting about all the cruelty and chaos that came with it is easy, making it a […]
As our beloved 4X Golden Age slowly sinks into the deeper oranges of sunset, it’s clear that the sun has risen on a new era of city builder games. While developers continue to iterate on the established norms of the genre, players have plenty of options when it […]
“In 1688 Europe drew swords in a quarrel which, with one uneasy interlude, was to last for a quarter of a century. Since the duel between Rome and Carthage there had been no such world war.” Winston Churchill – Marlborough His Life And Times. The 127 year period […]
Every now and then I want to take a break from the super complex games that fill my Steam library and just play something more straightforward. Thankfully, the most recent time I felt I needed such a break, I had the perfect game lined up and ready to […]
Reactor: Online All systems nominal in my gaming life, y’all. I’m not even going to pretend to be unbiased about BattleTech. I definitely have criticisms of this title and I’ll lay those out, but you’re reading a piece written by a guy who bought manuals and miniatures for […]
Frostpunk is an exercise in misery. The latest city builder amongst many (SimCity, Cities: Skylines (C:S), the Anno series, Aven Colony, Surviving Mars and more), Frostpunk attempts something more than just the same old optimized living/working space, building-placement puzzle. Frostpunk demands you ask yourself, again and again, how […]
Are we in a city builder renaissance? I’ve been told by many that this is so. With SimCity, Cities: Skylines (C:S), the Anno series, Aven Colony, and Frostpunk out amongst a host of others, there may never have been so many options for the burgeoning electronic metropolist. And […]
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