Tag: Endless Space
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Interstellar Space: Genesis Q&A
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Explorminate has made a conscious effort to reach out to as many of 4X studios as possible to find out more about their projects through a series of Q&A’s. That series continues today with Praxis Games and their upcoming title Interstellar Space: Genesis. Could you start by telling us about…
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Strategic eXpanse #33 – 4th Anniversary Hangout Session!
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eXplorminate turned four years old! So Nate, Troy, Joshua and Mark had a some fun hanging out and talking about 4X and gaming in general. They had A LOT of fun, so much so, that some strong language made it on the podcast. Listeners, beware!!! Thank you for following us…
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Crossing The Rubicon: Defining The 4X-like Genre
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Oliver delves into the challenges of classifying the 4X genre and presents a 6-criteria rubric for evaluating 4X-like games. These efforts are aimed at fostering broader genre inclusion and game diversity, or something like that.
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Endless Space 2 Review
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Back in 2012, Amplitude Studios almost single-handedly resurrected the Space 4X genre from a cryogenic sleep with Endless Space. While it was not a perfect game by any means, its revolutionary mechanics and fantastic storylines made it an instant hit with turn-based strategy fans. To date, ES has sold well…
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Stars In Shadow Review
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In the Shadow of Orion The original Master of Orion, published by MicroProse waaaaaaay back in 1993, is undoubtedly a classic. I know that’s like spouting “the sky is blue” or “water is wet” around these parts. MoO1 spawned a great sequel and an arguably not-so-great sequel to that sequel.…
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Amplitude Joins The SEGA Family Announcement
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Today, SEGA – makers of multiple hedgehog-based products – announced they have acquired Amplitude Studios, the developers of Endless Space, Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Legend, and the upcoming Endless Space 2. On the face of it, Amplitude may seem like a strange choice for SEGA, however it’s important to…
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The Harvester Heresy: An eXposition
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Master of Orion III had great ideas. There. I said it. Master of Orion III was justifiably trashed by critics and reviled by the strategy gaming community, but it did some wonderful things – it did most of these things very poorly, or cut them down to just a fraction…
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Stellaris Review
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Since humanity first looked up at the skies, we have been inspired by the great inky expanse that blankets us every evening as we close our eyes and dream. That’s what space is, really. A dream of everything that might be. In many ways, space 4X games are an attempt…
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Depth Charge: An eXposition
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Language is kind of a funny thing. If you stop and think about it for a moment, you start to see that language is entirely made up. Letters and words are really just symbols with agreed upon meanings that we humans have devised to make communication easier. It is an…
