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Get the X3 Reunion demo.

Yes, it is fun, Island Dog and thanks for the screenies. Even the Nintendo DS and Wii versions are getting good reviews. I only have the demo at the moment. Even though I like it, I will probably wait a long while before buying the game itself. Two reasons, first is the DRM and second is there seems to be some omissions at the moment. 1. The Tages DRM: is either a game breaker or an annoyance depending. At the moment, purchasers cannot activate the game they bought because the

Since we will be getting a huge flood of details, not to worry. I think what I and others had asked was for a simple news post weekly about what was going on. We got one! Yay! "changes to the Sins of a Solar Empire website so that players can participate with the development of it" -- lots of details then!

Here is the Ubisoft statement about Tages copy protection on Dawn of Discovery, aka Anno 1404. The official Anno 1404 forums in English are at this link. http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/5251042375 Do I need to be online to play the game? No. After the game is activated, the PC does no need to be online to play. Do I need to be online to activate my game? No, if you gaming PC is not online, you have the possibili

I will amend "I'm probably going to get it" to I might get it. Eventually. Sort of stream of consciousness of the moment. The DRM is annoying, but even three activations will probably last me until such time as the game has dropped in price to where it doesn't matter much; or Ubisoft has gone bankrupt. In the latter case, midnight requisition would seem to be in order. Then too, the game is good enough that it will get patches and perhaps an expansion pack down the line. Patience is a

Well, I'm probably going to get it. Hopefully, the following is helpful info on the game. 1. It is listed on Impulse for purchase. $49 and change. So you can buy it here; but, yes, the Impulse version does have the same DRM. As does the Steam version too I think. Why did they not just distribute via Impulse in the first place? Sigh. 2. There is a DEMO. I couldn't find the DEMO listed on Impulse, but it is available from various other sources. http://www

High-tech witches is what they are! Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live! ... And usually they don't.

At first, don't overstress the micro management of battles. The game philosophy is to let the AI take care of most of it. Later on, yes.

Rocky, I'm not in the beta. I've looked at the game videos and it is very visually impressive. No doubt of it. It looks wonderful! However ... just my reaction ... The game will retail for $49 and change. Then, best I can tell from web flogging, there will be a $15 per month fee to play. Just me, but with video game sales currently down 25% it seems like a poor time to introduce a new game with a monthly fee. Now if I were going to lay out that kind of money per month I would rather p

Bill Gates has put Richard Feynman's physics lectures videos online, at his own expense! Interview with Bill Gates here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10286732-56.html And you can find the online Feynman Lectures videos here: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html With an extended video interview with Bill Gates as well.

Well, based on Sins of a Solar Empire, Galactic Civilizations 2, and Master of Orion 2 and 3 ... Sins is going to be real hard to improve on as it continues to develop. Human-Computer VS Human-Human experience: Human vs computer is primary for me. Free content with paid extensions VS Paid to use: Pay once, pay for expansions. Paying for time, or nickel and dime formulas are going to get very few customers. You are not dealing with the Maple Story venue here. Reward sys

Kryo, Blair, thanks for responding. Weekly news, or weekly views, general chat; we just want to know someone's alive in 'thar! It really is true, ongoing communication from the developer olympus is key to maintaining enthusiasm in the player base. But now I wish to discuss some things that we players can do. If only we had a New Pilot or Beginners forum section, people new to the game would feel more at ease posting their questions. And we could respond. You can also drop in o

Since you are asking, the brief answer is, " Please! No Diplomacy Expansion! " Tedious diplomacy will detract from the dynamic flow of the game. Adding Diplomacy is a step backwards towards turn-based strategy that really doesn't fit what is essentially a smoothly flowing combat game. Then too, it would add nothing whatever to online play. Sure, you can add government types, you could throw in religion; but how many players really want to be anything other than an absol

Anagram. If you rearrange the letters of Barack Hussein Obama, you get: A Cabana Hubris Smoke and that's all you need to know.

I played the original Civ way back there, then Civ 2 which was really by Brian Reynolds who later started Big Huge Games that produced Rise of Nations. Civ 3 I really liked about up to the Enlightenment, then I usually restarted. Civ 4 with the expansions is a huge improvement, IMHO. Colonization is coming up to speed finally, I think. Might give it another whirl. But, check out civfanatics and you will see that Civ 3 and Civ 2 are still played by many. Rise of Nations seems t

You all make me feel inferior.

You might consider installing Firefox 3.5 in case there are problems in the future.

You drink too much green tea, and suddenly you are enlightened at once! But a good double scotch on the rocks will soon have you back to normal.

I don't know your network, but some things to try with IE 8. Make sure you really do have an internet connection. Start Sins or another browser, or some other game, see if it connects. If it doesn't, reboot. You rebooted at the install, but sometimes changes remain pending for some reason. Won't hurt to reboot again. If still no joy, you can then open a command prompt from Start, All Programs, Accessories. Type ipconfig in the mysterious land of command line darkness and hit R

Apologies if someone mentioned it, but "-" on your keyboard slows down the game in steps, while the "=" key beside it speeds it back up. And Pause key on your keyboard should pause the game.

The Robots remind me of Fred Saberhagen's Berserker stories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_%28Saberhagen%29 The Robots could be worked in. Or a Hive race maybe, like in Sword of the Stars.

Light of Altair has recently appeared on Impulse. There is also a Demo, but I did not find it on Impulse; it may be there and I just missed it. The developers published a very interesting PostMortem that provides a rare insight into how games really get put together. Worth reading if you are into the tech side. Note that this is a PostMortem for the development, hardly for the game itself which just went retail. http://uk.gamespot.com/users/SaintXi/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id

I never yet bought a game on Steam. I looked at the service, and at once it inspired a negative attitude. Impulse is good. www.gog.com has some interesting old games too, but I have yet to buy one.

Greek Mythology is just the starting area. Many other world mythologies after that. Can't tell much, sounds like gathering stones of power is the big excitement focus. You do level up. Microtransaction store will sell you xp multipliers for real world money, maybe other good stuff. Couldn't tell much more. Petroglyph was started by old Westwood Studios people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroglyph_Games I tried and tried to like Age of Mythology from the now sadly de

From the Gratuitous Space Battles home page, "simulation game that does away with all the base building and delays and gets straight to the meat and potatoes of science-fiction games : The big space battles fought by huge spaceships with tons of laser beams and things going 'zap!', 'ka-boom!' and 'ka-pow!'. In GSB you put your ships together from modular components, arrange them into fleets, give your ships orders of engagement and then hope they emerge victorious from battle (or at least blo