Posts Tagged ‘games’

Axis & Allies by TripleA

// April 27th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Gaming

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Back in high school my friends and I were big into a number of strategy “board” games such as Risk, Red Storm Rising, Supremacy and our ultimate favorite, Axis & Allies. With the exception of Risk, the games were extremely complicated, required an obscene amount of table top space, and generally went on for hours. All of that being said, the games themselves were immensely satisfying from an intellectual perspective. While there was always an element of chance to the games, much of your success (or failure) was directly attributed to the manner in which you (or your opponents) played the game.
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5 PC Classics I’d Like to See on the Wii

// September 11th, 2008 // No Comments » // Gaming

The Nintendo Wii was far from my first choice when it came to purchasing a new game console, but I just couldn’t reconcile a PS3 with my budget, two small girls, and library of GameCube games. The Wii was a natural choice. Now that I’ve had the Wii for nearly a year, I’m more than happy with the console and downright apoplectic with the crap that the development houses have been creating for it. For the longest time I flat out refused to play FPS or RTS games on a console because of the controls, the Wii has completely negated that concern. In fact, there are some games (or styles of games) that are just begging to be brought to the Wii.
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