As a child, I was only able to acquire three or four games per year: one on my birthday, one on Christmas, and one or two purchased on my own, using the allowance I had saved up from chores. Once I was old enough to work in the summer, I […]
Strategy
For the first time, I found a MOBA that I like. Not League of Legends, nor Defense of the Ancients, but Heroes of the Storm. But why do I like it? I found myself asking this reflexive question between matches recently. Is it the whole ‘Closet Blizzard Fanboy’ in me, […]
MOBA: Multiplayer Online Battle Arena
As I mentioned in last week’s post, I am a pretty big fan of Civilization: Beyond Earth. I think it represents a good transition from Civ V and a well formed “spiritual successor” to Alpha Centauri. However, there’s one element of both of its predecessors that C:BE is, startlingly, lacking: landmarks. Why is this […]
Take a right at Mount Planet…
So, I’ve been playing Civilization: Beyond Earth since it came out. Actually, Kiokri and I took its release day off from work so that we could play the hell out of it. There’s something simultaneously blissful and guilt-inducing about playing a brand new game while your wife is at work […]