Paradox on the future of historical strategy, RPGs and their internal...
At the Paradox Convention last month, I was hoping to see something new from Paradox Development Studio, the internal team responsible for the company’s core strategy titles. There were new expansions...
View ArticleEuropa Universalis IV and Hearts of Iron IV DLC looks to the East
Adam is away at E3 and thus someone who isn’t Adam needs to develop emotions and/or words regarding the new DLC available for two of Paradox’s grand strategy games, Europa Universalis IV [official...
View ArticleCiv 6, EUIV and Endless Legend designers on how their strategy games create...
Big, slow, sweeping strategy games expose their rules in a way no other game does. Call of Duty doesn’t have floating numbers above enemy heads, telling you their movement speed, for example. But in...
View ArticleParadox giving games to customers affected by regional price rises
Paradox have started handing out games as compensation to those affected by their recent surprise regional price hikes. Prices went up by only a few percent for some people but almost doubled for...
View ArticleI’m guilty of doing very silly things to Bohemia in Europa Universalis 4
As a wayward youth, I spent many an hour scribbling willies of all shapes and sizes on school jotters. As a respectable, responsible adult, I’ve graduated to ruining multiplayer games instead....
View ArticleEuropa Universalis IV: Cradle of Civilization announced
Paradox’s historical strategy Europa Universalis IV [official site] will expand once more later this year with Cradle of Civilization, the next paid expansion. Its main focus is Muslim empires,...
View Article40 people are playing Europa Universalis IV together in a real castle
[Update: the organisers have now set up a Twitch livestream for this, which you can see here] Hello from Poland, where I am currently living in a castle with forty angry strategy gamers. The castle is...
View ArticleKings of the castle: the forty-person strategy game of Europa Universalis IV...
We sent Brendan to a castle in Poland to witness a giant session of strategy game Europa Universalis IV [official site]. In the first of a two-part report, he tells us of war-hungry Germans, scheming...
View ArticleKings of the castle: the forty-person strategy game of Europa Universalis IV...
We sent Brendan to a castle in Poland to witness a giant session of strategy game Europa Universalis IV [official site]. In this final report, he tells us of the manipulative merchant kings of India,...
View ArticleSteam’s Halloween Sale is great for grand strategy
With Halloween fast approaching, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about typical spooky things: ghouls and ghosts, vampires and werewolves, marrying off my daughter to an appropriate suitor...
View ArticleIt’s grand strat-a-day: Crusader Kings II and EU IV both expand today
With this week’s release of Star Wars: Battlecrate 2 marking the end of big, noisy shooter silly season, there’s a whole lot more breathing space for a wider variety of games. Case in point, a...
View ArticleThese are the top 100 Steam games of 2017
Another year over, a new one just begun, which means, impossibly, even more games. But what about last year? Which were the games that most people were buying and, more importantly, playing? As is now...
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