In a forum post on November 29th, Battleclinic‘s founder SghnDubh quietly announced that the website would be shutting down this month. Battleclinic was founded in 2001 to service...
Games and Symbols of Hate
In June, Apple briefly removed nearly all games that featured the Confederate Battle Flag from the App Store. Controversy ensued...
Floating Follies: Rule The Waves AAR Part 1
Rule the Waves is a game about building, maintaining, and commanding a great navy in the age of the dreadnought. In peacetime...
EVE Online Changed My Life
I remember when I first sat down to play EVE Online. It was the summer of 2007. I was new to San Diego, with a new job and my...
Rising Thunder Impressions: Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
The biggest barrier in fighting games is execution. If you intend to enjoy fighting games at a level beyond mashing your hands on...
The Civ Battle Royale Soldiers Onward
A while back we covered the beginning of the Second Civilization V Battle Royale, an effort put on by user TPangolin of reddit...
The Civ Battle Royale Soldiers Onward
A while back we covered the beginning of the Second Civilization V Battle Royale, an effort put on by user TPangolin of reddit to pit 61 AI civilizations against each other in an epic...
Kaiserreich Imagines Germany Victorious in WWI
Kaiserreich, a popular alternate history mod for Darkest Hour, recently released its 1.7 update. Kaiserreich is an exhaustively complex scenario for the Hearts of Iron 2-derived strategy...
World of Warships Sets Sail
Wargaming.net’s latest foray into, uh, historical vehicular arena combat (there has to be a better way to describe it), World of Warships, has finally raised anchor from the...
Screenshot Saturday: Expansive Worlds
Videogames are confusing, beautiful, complicated messes, and the best way to convey that is through screenshots, whether they are beautiful, informative, or goofy. Each Saturday we bring...
Sovereignty for the Little Guy
EVE Online’s July patch-pansion, called Aegis, brought with it an universe-sundering change in the core, defining feature of the venerable MMO – sovereignty. Reception for the Aegis...
Diablo 3 Patch 2.3 Review: Bringing Back The Cube
Diablo 3 has a pretty phenomenal patch record. Patch 2.0 brought a lot of much-needed changes to the overall structure of the game, with the most important being the introduction of Loot...
Screenshot Saturday: Blood and Glory
Videogames are confusing, beautiful, complicated messes, and the best way to convey that is through screenshots, whether they are beautiful, informative, or goofy. Each Saturday we bring...
Jake Solomon On XCOM 2’s Strategy Layer
Earlier today, Firaxis Games’ Jake Solomon, the mastermind behind 2012’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown, took to Firaxis’ Twitch account to “dive deep” into XCOM...
The Iron Chalice, Part Two: Under Attack
In the last installment of The Iron Chalice, I introduced Davelandia to the world. We installed a regent, gave him a bride, and set them to the all-important task of making babies. The...