Three Moves Ahead: What’s the deal with Majesty?

Troy calls it an evolutionary dead end. Bruce calls it a terrarium. Tom quotes a movie.

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Halo 3: ODST review (firefight mode)

…all the fat of the Halo games trimmed away.

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Halo 3: ODST review (campaign)

After all this time, given all these resources, with their enormous success and all their fans, this is all Bungie has come up with?

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Majesty 2 review

The developers have done a few things differently, a couple of them better and a couple of them worse. But what they’ve mostly done is made me re-appreciate the genius of Majesty.

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Three Moves Ahead: strategy games for people who aren’t strategy gamers

From chess to Hearts of Iron III by way of Advance Wars.

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Guitar Hero 5 review

It might not knock Rock Band out of its place in the living room, but it’s earned a place alongside it.

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Dirt 2 review

If Codemasters has to EA-ify the presentation to sell copies, they can have at it so long as they don’t mess with the racing. And they don’t.

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Final Fantasy: Dissidia review

…what the holy heck is going on?

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Three Moves Ahead: Rum, sodomy, the lash, and right clicking to unload transports

Or is it left clicking? Why is war at sea such a hassle? And why is it also so awesome?

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Rush, Boom, Turtle: Swords & Soldiers & Monkeys & Rockets

“We all have a monkey somewhere in our hearts.”

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Wolfenstein review

It is as lifeless and plodding as its Nazi zombies, which is saying a lot since it doesn’t even really have Nazi zombies.

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Three Moves Ahead: We built this city

From SimCity (and before!) to Cities XL.

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Shadow Complex review

Bionic Commando: Rearmed was for fans of the old 2D exploration games. Shadow Complex is for everyone.

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Rush, Boom, Turtle: And Now for Something Completely Different

This must be what it felt like to play Defense of the Ancients back when it was a mod for Warcraft III.

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Three Moves Ahead: Is World War II too big?

Hearts of Iron vs. Axis & Allies. Fight!

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