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Imagine, if you will, a porn movie gone horribly wrong as Oblivion, beautiful but naive girl that she is, finds herself in a dark alley and menaced by a pack of dudes with bad intentions. World of Warcraft, Sid Meier's Pirates, and Medieval 2: Total War have their way with her and not long thereafter Oblivion gives birth to the collective offspring of all of the above. What do we get from this unnatural coupling…
For the roughly eight of you who bought Europa Universalis Rome when it came out back in April, you may not be aware that Paradox Interactive has released an expansion pack for it, titled Vae Victis ("woe to the vanquished" in Latin) and available exclusively as a nine-megabyte, ten-dollar (or ten-euro) download at their GamersGate.com portal (or, as I like to call it, "EuroSteam".) They're actually offering the…
Square Enix has made plenty of remakes on Nintendo's handhelds. They've done Final Fantasy to death, and with the new release of Dragon Quest IV on the DS, they aim to hit the Enix side of the back catalog. This is a straight port of the 1990 original, with locations, weapon and armor prices, and experience rates kept right on point from where they were on the NES. Those expecting a Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls-like…
Read the full review Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen
Not every game appeals to every audience. Sometimes this is due to major structural flaws that turn off a large segment of the potential audience, but most of the time a game gets itself relegated to niche status because the game the developers explicitly intended to create is one that only a limited audience would find appealing. Enter Paradox Interactive, the Stockholm-based developer of grand strategy games going…
