Tag: rts

  • Cosmic Encounter

    Earlier this month I bough a highly recommended game called Cosmic Encounter. A classic of thirty years, Cosmic Encounter is a negotiation strategy game set in space. The game has apparently influenced games such as the Dune board game (which shares designers), and Magic The Gathering. In Cosmic Encounter, players choose a color with five planets […]

  • E3 Report 2009

    This is a week late due to studying for the GRE. I missed a whole lot of stuff due to preparing  the GRE: A-Kon, Isis, and E3. Now I’m free and ready to kick Dallass. Microsoft Conference Highlights: Project Natal – How are you supposed to play a FPS with this? I imagine one will […]

  • No time, the walls fall down

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FeY2_abM0&w=425&h=344] S.T.A.L.K.E.R build didn’t work,  so I bought Empire Total War which I am playing over the break. Empire is the most comprehensive and dense Total War game to date. The map is much bigger than past games and includes American and South Asian land theaters and 3-4 sea trade theaters. Territories are dotted with towns, […]

  • El futuro en sus manos

    I was both fascinated that CNN is using cutting-edge interface technology in their election coverage and repulsed that CNN is using cutting-edge interface technology. Their pandering to techies was just inane and a disservice to the technology they use If you don’t know what I am talking about. Jeff Han’s Multi-Touch Interface has been making […]

  • McKane Lives!!!

    I was in the Twin Cities area this weekend visiting friends and chilling before class starts. I managed to sneak a spycam into the Xcel Center got some telling footage of the Republican National Convention which you can see below(FB friends need to click view original post to see the videos). I also found some […]