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Dead Marxists Widow Turns Capitalist Over Wargame

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2008-04-07 11:39:20 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...wargame, and documented hisdesign in a book called A Game of War .Now, as Ian Bogost writes at Water Cooler Games , Debords long lost game has resurfaced in controversy It seems that political thinker Alex Galloway, an admirer of the obscure Kriegspiel, created a digital version which heoffers as a free download for both Mac and Windows. As...
 
Tags: bogost writes, lost game, ian bogost writes, game, guy debords widow, liz losh, debords, prominent marxist theorist, game design
 
 
 
 
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Military (Wargame) Spending Budget Slashed

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2008-04-16 11:04:22 by Kieron Gillen in Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Making False Idols For 2008
...wargame which allows you to construct your own turn-based military fisticuffs. Theres eight (Count em!) campaigns included, though one appears to be a pure training one. They vary from fantasy turn-isms to Space-based turn-isms to Laser-squad-esque turn-isms to Paintball-turn-isms to well, people who are into turn-isms are going to be as...
 
Tags: fantasy turn-isms, turn-isms, war engine game, war engine, tax day, tim stone hat, visit site, matrix games, half peggles
 
 
 
 
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Tabula Rasa's new PvP Control Point Wargame

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2008-05-30 20:30:00 by Shawn Schuster in Massively
...Wargame. Apparently, in this PvP zone, each team will own a fortress containing a control point. If one team conquers the other's control point, the losing team is imprisoned and subject to humiliation and ridicule, courtesy of the winning team. This battleground will be introduced to the Public Test Server with Deployment 9 and probably stay...
 
Tags: tabula rasa, control, pvp, team, team conquers, pvp zone, deployment, public test server, clan log tabs
 
 
 
 
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Massively: Tabula Rasa's new PvP Control Point Wargame

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2008-05-31 10:55:30 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
...Wargame. Apparently, in this PvP zone, each team will own a fortress containing a control point. If one team conquers the other's control point, the losing team is imprisoned and subject to humiliation and ridicule, courtesy of the winning team. This battleground will be introduced to the Public Test Server with Deployment 9 and probably stay...
 
Tags: tabula rasa, control, pvp, team, team conquers, pvp zone, deployment, public test server, clan log tabs
 
 
 
 
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Supernova 2

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2008-05-24 12:41:28 by Codrut Nistor in PlayerzBlog.com
...wargame is combined with a resource micromanagement simulation According to Riva Celso, programmer/designer of Tycoon Games, After the first title, I wanted to shift genre completely, making a turn-based space wargame, integrated with a resource macromanagement part. I wanted to keep the management part simple, with global variables...
 
Tags: tycoon games website, tycoon games, games, wargame, space wargame, transport tycoon, supernova, game, resource micromanagement simulation
 
 
 
 
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Wicked Defense

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2008-01-18 15:50:44 by Tim Stone in Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Making False Idols For 2008
...wargame of 2007 and my second favourite wargame of 2007 they somehow found the time to sign-up and nurture two promising projects from fellow French studios. Montjoie , a light Hundred Years War TBS based on the board game of the same name, turns out to be one of their pigeons, as does Wicked Defense , a sparkly Darwinia-scented strategy...
 
Tags: favourite wargame, fellow french studios, tower defence maps, war tbs based, english demos, board game, defense, strategy affair, games
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: @Play: Roguelikes And OD&D

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2008-05-16 16:00:10 by John Harris in GameSetWatch
...wargame concerning itself with medieval combat. Now, wargames are not quite games in the same sense as Monopoly or Bridge. The ethic here is, paradoxically, not to win at all costs. It is to enact pretend battles, and bring to them enough statistical rigor so that the participants can see the outcome as definitive The goal of a wargame is to...
 
Tags: roguelike player, player, roguelike player talk, game, pen-and-paper game, games, computer games, roguelike, game gygax
 
 
 
 
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Videogames & Futurama, Part 5: Bender Gets Medieval On The Third DVD

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2007-12-21 00:01:00 by Chris Baker in Game | Life
...wargame when they're actually fighting in a war Is that persuasive? Or is it just stupid? I honestly have no insider info or evidence here. Please fill up the comments below with hearsay and conjecture and rumor. Oh, and facts, if you have them See Also Videogames And Futurama, Part 1: Raiders Of The Lost Arcade Videogames And Futurama, Part...
 
Tags: futurama, videogame-like virtual world, world, game, full-blown fantasy world, dvd, futurama co-creator, occasional game, futurama history
 
 
 
 
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Armageddon helps Dark Future break free

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2007-12-21 11:43:00 by gnome in the random Gnomes' random Lair
...wargame that pits the Imperium versus the Orcs in a fight to control the Armageddon Hive. The rules are simple, elegant really, and make for a fast yet tactically varied/deep game. Oh, and everything you need to play from counters to board pieces has been included Dark Future ( scroll down and download ) is not unlike a certain Mad Max...
 
Tags: armageddon, dark future, heavily armors cars, armageddon hive, chaos dwarf fantasies, aptly named wargame, complete mighty empires, brilliant classic warhammer, skull pass review
 
 
 
 
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Brikwars does to Lego Wargaming what Lenin did to bicycling. And its absolutely free too!

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2007-11-30 16:35:00 by gnome in the random Gnomes' random Lair
...wargame. Further inspection though, reveals a truly fantastic game that has been evolving for over a decade and is both simple ( make that elegant ) and deep enough to actually challenge Warhammer . As for the quality of the core rulebook and supplements, the top-notch humor and utterly jaw-dropping artwork, well, you'll have to visit the...
 
Tags: brikwars, brikwars post, brikwars site, mighty empires, gamey link, core rulebook, rules system, download munkey, top-notch humor