Podcast Episode #23: Huge News and a Planetfall Postmortem
Rob, Ben, and DasTactic sit down and discuss Age of Wonders: Planetfall at length after Triumph Studios declared that it would no longer be providing content updates for Planetfall. Before that, Rob delivers the latest in 4X news, and there are some BIG announcements. The eXplorminate News Network: https://www.reddit.com/r/eXNN The eXplorminate Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/eXplorminatepodcast News […]
Illwinter Game Design Announce Conquest of Elysium 5
In an exciting week for the 4X community with the announcement of both Stardock’s Galactic Civilizations 4 and Slitherine’s Master of Magic remake, strategy gaming auteurs Illwinter also announced the fifth iteration of their venerable fantasy 4X Conquest of Elysium (CoE) series on Monday. Rob is rather pleased with himself that he called GC4’s announcement […]
Interview with Chris McElligott Park on AI War 2 and More
Rob and Ben spoke with Chris on the huge new update for AI War 2, the upcoming DLCs, the intricacies of developing an AI and multiplayer, and much more. This is a great interview, even if you’re not quite sold on AI War 2, yet. YET. Outro music by Kasey at White Bat Audio
Episode #22: Multiplayer vs Single-Player Design Conflicts in Strategy Gaming
Ben, Drexy, DasTactic, and LucidTactics all sit down to discuss how the single-player and multiplayer aspects of strategy games affect the design of said games and how balance isn’t always a good thing.
eXNN Bi-Weekly: Mar 22 – Apr 4, 2021
Moving back to a twice-a-month format, as many weeks are a bit light on news. Plus, with Rob’s recent health issues (he’s just recently had cervical spine surgery), this has been a bit harder to keep up with. A Fortnight of News: Paradox Interactive announced a bevy of upcoming events related to the next Stellaris […]
Episode #21: The “Gears Tactics” Treatment
Please excuse Rob’s voice as he’s recovering from cervical spine surgery. Rob, Ben, Drexy, and Shaun discuss the recent news, and there’s a bit of it, and then discuss games that they’d like to see get the “Gears Tactics” treatment, aka game universes that are usually seen in a different genre, but are made into […]
eXNN Bi-Weekly: Mar 8 – Mar 22, 2021
Moving back to a twice-a-month format, as many weeks are a bit light on news. Plus, with Rob’s recent health issues, this has been a bit harder to keep up with. A Fortnight of News: Paradox Interactive announced the release date of their upcoming Stellaris DLC, “Nemesis”, giving it the go-ahead on April 15th, alongside […]
Episode #20: Our Most Wanted Sequels
Rob, Ben, Drexy, and Shaun all gather around to talk about the games they think are most deserving of sequels, whether they be 4X games (hint: most of them are), or strategy games of the past that have left an impression beyond most others. We’d love to hear which games you all think deserve a […]
eXNN Weekly: Mar 1 – Mar 8, 2021
Apologies for the delay, but Rob has been having some moderately serious health issues and has been in the hospital. Some of these posts might be a bit later than intended for the foreseeable future. There wasn’t much news to report this week, either… This Week’s News: Brad Wardell of Stardock pretty much confirmed what […]
eXNN Weekly: Feb 21 – Feb 28, 2021
This was a slower week in the 4X, strategy, and tactics gaming world, but here you go! This Week’s News: Paradox Interactive released Stellaris’ Dev Diary #202, “Nemesis Ship Set and Art Direction” and, you guessed it, it shows off the upcoming Nemesis ship set and art direction. We’re thinking that this expansion and patch […]