The Inglorious State Of 4X Games: An eXposition

Greetings! If you haven’t listened to the 33rd Strategic Expanse – 4th Anniversary Hangout featuring all of the lesser (I’m jesting) eXplorminate staffers, then please stop reading this and go listen to that first. The rest of this little rant (thoughtful article?) will make a bit more sense with the proper context. With that out […]
Weekly eXchange #200 – 200… Already!

Join Nate and Troy as they bring you all the important information on all of your favorite 4X and strategy games! This week they talk about Endless Space 2, Stellaris, Dominus Galaxia, Children of the Galaxy, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Driftland: the Magic Revival, Aggressors: Ancient Rome, Oriental Empires and much much more. As well as continued […]
Weekly eXchange #198 -Into Space Once More…

Join Nate and Troy as they bring you all the important information on all of your favorite 4X and strategy games! This week they talk about Alliance of the Sacred Suns, Stellar Monarch, Interstellar Space: Genesis, Dominus Galaxia, Stellaris, Starsector, WH40K Gladius: Relics of War, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Aggressors: Ancient Rome and much much more. As […]
Nate Asked – Day 1

Troy’s Reflection on the Last Year Nate asked the staff to write about games we wanted to play from the last year but couldn’t for whatever reason. I told him, there were no such games. For me, the last 12 months have been a bit of a hangover from the previous 12. From late 2015 […]
Monday Modness – Pandora: Eclipse of the Nashira

Alexander “Ail” – Pandora: Complete Pandora: First Contact came out in November of 2013, almost a full year ahead of its terrestrial sci-fi cousin, Civilization: Beyond Earth. As a successor to the the classic 1999 hit Alpha Centauri, Pandora was not all that far off. The problem was the game had issues; most notably a […]