Archive for October 16th, 2012

The XCOM: Enemy Unknown review that took 18 years to write

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Time travel has not yet been invented. But thirty years from now, it will have been. This will lead to a series of events that would take me all day to diagram with straws, and even then, trying to understand it would fry your brain like an egg. Suffice to say, time travel will allow me to write the following XCOM review with the help of a leading authority on all things X-Com: myself.

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What a difference a font makes in space dungeon crawler Cargo Commander

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Cargo Commander is one of the worst titles to grace a great game since Renegade Ops. You wouldn’t know it by the title, but this wildly inventive, wildly enthusiastic, wildly randomized, and deeply deep space dungeon crawl belongs on your hard drive when it comes out in a few weeks. I’ll have more to say as the release date gets closer. But today, I want to warn you about the font.

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