To mark episode 90, Al, Joe, Adam, and Drexy trace strategy gaming’s defining decade, from Dune 2’s birth of the RTS and Games Workshop’s fateful rejection of Blizzard’s Warhammer license to the golden age of Caesar 3, Master of Orion, and the original XCOM trilogy. https://criticalmovespodcast.com/listen Marking their 90th episode with a fittingly themed retrospective, Al, Joe, Adam, and Drexy dive into strategy gaming’s most formative decade. The conversation traces the genre’s explosive diversification during the 1990s, from Westwood’s Dune...
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