StarCraft TBG Strategy: Protoss
Prelude – Orders – Protoss – Zerg – Terrans – Wrapup
This is the first out of three race-specific posts, going into how you can play a race if you want fun with the game. I’ll try to include pointers that help newbies as well as hints that might be new for veterans, let me know [...]
StarCraft TBG Strategy: Orders & Planning
Prelude – Orders – Protoss – Zerg – Terrans – Wrapup
The planning phase is the first of the three phases the game round consists of, and probably the most important one – as most decisions are made here. You decide where you go, where you build, and others decide where they want to screw with [...]
Being No One, First Main Argument
As you may know, I’m busy reading for my diploma thesis. If I manage to pull myself to it, that is, which is often not until noon, but regularly lasts to midnight and beyond. I happen to like reading at the office then, as that’s a way for me to switch context – “now I’m [...]
StarCraft TBG Strategy: Game Prelude
Prelude – Orders – Protoss – Zerg – Terrans – Wrapup
This is the first in a planned series of posts on StarCraft Boardgame strategy. In this first post, I’ll merely gloss over factions and races, and show up some general strategies that work with all races, and apply to all games. It will also mostly [...]
StarCraft TBG German Card Translations
I got the Brood War expansion for the great StarCraft board game for christmas from my beloved wife, how great is that. I’ll tell you: Totally awesome.
Whether you know the game or not, this FFG promo video is very well-made and worth watching either way:
Back when I got the original game, I invited some friends [...]
World of Goo has a Soundtrack
Well, it always had. But now the sountrack to World of Goo (which I reviewed earlier) is actually available online, too.
Get the soundtrack from here.
If all the raving reviews everywhere didn’t win you over, maybe this will And maybe you, just like me, merely appreciate that the independent developer that you already supported [...]
Dead Space: First Impressions
I had heard a lot of positive buzz about Dead Space, the new EA SciFi horror shooter, so my expectations were naturally high. When Steam finally had it (funny enough, I’m one of those odd folks who are up in arms against any form of too rigid DRM except when it’s Steam), and in English [...]
Quake Live Beta
I’m in the Quake Live Beta, yay!
If you haven’t heard of it … Quake Live is, basically, Quake III Arena with (very) slightly improved graphics as a browser plugin, plus online stats, plus automatic matchmaking (so lower skill levels find servers where they’re not annihilated, too – yay). And the best part, it’s absolutely, totally, [...]
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