Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright and Conquest: The Kotaku Review
Fire Emblem Fates is a soap opera strategy game. You’ll spend as much time agonizing over battlefield tactics as you will wondering which characters should, like, totally hook up.
One of Steam's Hottest Games Right Now Costs 90 Bucks
Maybe you’ve heard of Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13—not only has the historical strategy series been around for a while, it also has several spin-offs, such as Dynasty Warriors. Well, now Romance of the Kingdoms is tearing up the Steam charts.
Blogging the Galactic Civilizations II Experience
Tom Francis, author of the wonderfully funny essay chronicling his attempts to find love in MMOs, is back with a running diary of his attempts to take over a galaxy in Galactic Civilizations II. Now, Francis has done this once before, but now GalCiv II has gotten an expansion pack and is even bigger. And this time,…
Weekend Timewaster: FkConflict
A simple and scaled-down strategy game (it was an entrant in the 'Java4K competition,' where entries could not exceed 4096 bytes), FkConflict is still a lot of fun and good to while away a chunk of time that you probably should be doing something else with. The mechanics are pretty simple: pick your territories;…
'A Game Isn't a Series of Interesting Decisions'
Do we have too many strategists (or at least, strategy fans) in the game design kitchen? Chris Bateman seems to think so — and that may account for the idea that 'a game is a series of interesting decisions' (well, that and a misquote from Sid Meier). 'Game' doesn't (and shouldn't) just mean 'strategy game,' but…
