Mobile eXperience: Pocket City
As our beloved 4X Golden Age slowly sinks into the deeper oranges of sunset, it’s clear that the sun has risen on a new era of city builder games. While developers continue to iterate on the established norms of the genre, players have plenty of options when it comes to constructing the metropolis of their […]
Mobile eXperience: Civilization VI
For a game (and a series) that gets a ton of fanfare, the announcement and subsequent release of Civilization VI on the iPad (CSiP) has been relatively quiet. No months-long PR campaign full of developer diaries and pre-launch marketing blitzes. No hype train full of YouTube personalities panting breathlessly about the title’s amazing features. One […]
The Battle for Polytopia Review
Every so often a game comes along that reaffirms my belief that things can be done differently. When it comes to 4X, so many games try to follow in the footsteps of great titles that came before. Or they try to embrace the massive, epic scale and scope – and end up drowning in their […]
Mobile eXperience: Starbase Orion
While we are collectively abuzz with all things Master of Orion… You know, in light of MoO: Conquer the Stars’ recent release, it seems like a good time to talk about another Orion: Starbase Orion. Starbase Orion (henceforth Starbase) was released in October, 2011. We last talked about Starbase in our interview with solo developer […]
Mobile Experience: Planar Conquest
Editor’s Note: As a “Legacy Article”, this article does not have its original images (we migrated to a new URL in early 2020). Our sincere apologies. In 1994, Microprose released the all-important third leg of their Civilization stool: Master of Magic – complementing the previous year’s release, Master of Orion, and the original Civilization.I thought […]
Mobile eXperience: Eclipse Review
A Long and Winding Prologue: Space-based 4X games, if my ludological insight is correct, were born out of tabletop wargames of the 70’s and early 80’s with titles like Stellar Conquest (1975), Outreach (1976), Imperium (1977), and Starfall (1979). Master of Orion opened the floodgates for 4X space-based video games – and the genre has […]
