Podcast Episode #24: eXplorminate News Anchors
Rob, Ben, Drexy, and Shaun discuss all the latest news in the 4X and strategy world and there’s A LOT of it! From new announcements from Stardock to new footage of Distant Worlds 2 to the unveiling of new games from Slitherine, the eXplorminate gang discuss it all, just like your friendly Galactic News Network […]
Conquest of Elysium 5 Review
Conquest of Elysium 5 (CoE5) is the latest installment in a venerable series of adventure strategy games by Swedish developer Illwinter Game Design, a small team headed by Johan Karlsson (designer/programmer) and Kristoffer Osterman (designer/artist) with additional writing from Daniel Serra and music by Adrian von Zeigler. The first version was released way back in […]
Ben’s Top Games of 2021 and 2022
Happy New Year! 2021 wasn’t the best year for big, exciting releases with so many titles being set back until 2022. I mostly played Shadow Empire and Dominions 5, if truth be told. That said, for weirdo grognard gamers like myself, there were obvious highlights. I won’t bore you with my usual over-lengthy rambling nonsense, […]
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 […]
