Episode #269: Happy New Year!

Join Rob and Nate as they cover the small amount of news that popped up this past week and talk about the FREE release of Remnants of the Precursors, a Master of Orion 1 modernization. Outline: Lord of Rigel Update Master of Orion Steam Thread Remnants of the Precursors Steam Thread Stellaris Steam Thread What […]

Weekly eXchange #225 – Biff? It Is, What It Is!

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 Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Driftland the Magic Revival, Thea 2: the Shattering, Alliance of the Sacred Suns, Galactic Civilizations 3: Retribution, Endless Space 2, Stellaris, Europa Universalis and much much more. […]

Weekly eXchange #199 – Thanks For Trying!

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 Stellaris, Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, WH40k Gladius, Relics of War, Aggressors: Ancient Rome, Imperator: Rome, Total War: Warhammer 2 and much much more. As well […]

Strategic eXpanse #33 – 4th Anniversary Hangout Session!

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 for four years, because we […]

Weekly eXchange #207 – Updating Stuff…

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, Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars, Polaris Sector, Warhammer 40k Gladius: Relics of War, Age of Wonders: Planetfall and At the Gates and much much more. As well […]

Weekly eXchange #195 – Messenger!

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 Star Ruler 2, Endless Space 2, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, WH40k Gladius: Relics of War, Endless Legend, Aggressors: Ancient Rome and much much more. As well as continued coverage for your […]

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 […]

Nate Asked – Day 2

Greetings and Salutations eXplorminators, here is part two of the series. Enjoy   Joshua Why talk about the games I’m not playing? I guess it says as much about the state of gaming today as those that I do put time into. It’s been a heck of a year for our favorite hobby, but that […]

2017 End of Year Statistical eXamination Part 2

You can find part one of this article series and all associated charts HERE. eXplorminate is entering its fifth calendar year of existence, thus we now have four years of market data from our time to examine. It’s been a very exciting period for 4X. Some call it a Renaissance, others a Second Golden Age, […]

Weekly eXchange #130 – Show Notes?

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 Galactic Civilizations 3: Crusade, Dawn of Andromeda, Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars, Stellaris, Phoenix points and much much more. As well as continued coverage for your other favorite 4X and […]