Origins continues on its slow death spiral. Could it one day cease to exist? While it’s easy to think that the big cons are eternal if for no other reason than you grew up with them, let’s face it, how many other things in your life that you thought would perpetually be there for you still actually are?

This year’s Origins Awards have their share of whiskey tango foxtrot moments (Age of Empires III as Historical Board Game of the Year? Was Tropical a big sponsor this year?)...

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A sneak peek for all you blog readers. Dominions IV: The Profiteering will feature eighty playable nations, and since that's way too much game to fit on one disc it will be broken up into eighty full games. Furthermore, Dominions IV: The Profiteering will introduce the concept of the collectible manual! Each copy will feature ten pages of the manual. Collect all games to get the full manual!

Expect episode one, EA Ulm, to ship Q4 2009, with episode eighty, LA R'lyeh to hit the...

S.R. Krol

Funny how in the past two weeks we've seen wargaming mentioned more in the general news than we have in the past two years. Of course neither one of these articles is trying to put a positive spin on wargaming, but they do say any publicity is good publicity, right?

So the AP posted a story today about the upcoming (possibly; current pre-order count is at 382 with 560 needed to go to print.) consim King Philip's War from MMP. The game is about the rampage several Native American...

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The latest Call of Duty game, World At War, is enjoyable enough but does feel an awful lot like a total conversion mod of Call of Duty 4, right down to some of the same death animations. And I suppose it is pretty much a TC mod, just one with a multi-million dollar budget.

I have noticed a few visual elements that made me scratch my head:

• In Stalingrad there are wrecked King Tigers (or if you're British, Royal Tigers). The King Tiger wasn't even in production at that time.

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Tons of high explosives
Plastering the reefs
Amtracs approaching
Offloading LST's
Establishing the beachheads
Perimeter secured
Distant laying battleships
Roaring while harbored

Barbed wire and minefields
Concrete obstacles
Cautiously proceeding
Behind armored vehicles
Say farewell to their comrades
Left in blood red waves
A sudden hail of metal
From camouflaged caves

--"On...

S.R. Krol