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		<title>Poetical Cynicism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chewing Pixels&#8216; Simon Parkham on Game, Set, Watch has treated us to a wonderful little poem about the downward spiral of a prospective games journalist.

For a while
It worked out
Till he married and chose to breed:
Ten pence a word a family will not feed.
So he worked
Ten times harder,
So he aged
Ten times faster
And sooner or later the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2008/05/12/poetical-cynicism/</link>
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		<title>The Coming Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the posting delay. It has been one of those weekends where things pop-up that you need to deal with. Ongoing negotiations over new opportunities, meeting deadlines and having Bruce drop four turn summaries of the Making of the President Game that we completed months ago&#8230;nothing so tests the mind as trying to recall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2008/05/12/the-coming-week/</link>
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		<title>Sudden Strike 3 Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I liked it more than I thought I would. When you pull off an assault against an entrenched enemy with minor losses and combined arms, it really feels nice. It looks pretty good, too and the reinforcement based on objectives is a great way to encourage action and progress.
Ultimately, it comes apart because the interface [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2008/05/08/sudden-strike-3-review/</link>
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		<title>In Nomine News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the release of EU: Rome and all the fun I&#8217;m having with Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor, I missed a bunch of news and updates about the upcoming expansion pack for Europa Universalis III. There are some major changes on the way and I think I&#8217;m more excited about In Nomine than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2008/05/07/in-nomine-news/</link>
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		<title>A Matter of Literacy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This will probably be my only post about Grand Theft Auto IV, a game which has been dubbed not only &#8220;great&#8221;, but &#8220;important&#8221; by a number of very savvy critics. Seth Schiesel&#8217;s review in the New York Times epitomizes the form, being (as usual) well written enough to persuade my wife that GTA4 is something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2008/05/06/a-matter-of-literacy/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Johan Andersson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My interview with Paradox boss Johan Andersson is now up at CG.
I tend to like interviews where you give the subject enough room to just ramble, and Johan was happy to do that on this occasion. He took time to call Hearts of Iron a &#8220;buggy piece of shit&#8221; and to deem the development of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2008/05/03/interview-with-johan-andersson/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s luck and then there&#8217;s luck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Luck&#8221; is a very useful attribute in Galactic Civilizations II. You never know when you&#8217;ll stumble upon something useful in those anomalies or on a planet. I always take Luck for my race, because it&#8217;s cheap.
I&#8217;m in the middle of a campaign in the new GalCiv 2 expansion, Twilight of the Arnor. I&#8217;m in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2008/05/02/theres-luck-and-then-theres-luck/</link>
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		<title>Nobody Likes You When You&#8217;re Strange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RTS evangelist Tom Chick devoted his most recent column to a celebration of Rise of Legend&#8217;s second anniversary. He talked to Big Huge Games head honcho Brian Reynolds about the game - why it worked and why it wasn&#8217;t the huge success it deserved to be.
This exchange capsulizes the prevailing thinking on why the game [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2008/05/02/nobody-likes-you-when-youre-strange/</link>
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		<title>Developers On Notice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are 26 letters in the alphabet and ten numerals. So can you please stop using Os and zeroes in your registration codes? Or at least make it clear to me which is which? Use a font that puts a strike mark through the zero or makes the letter O really fat.
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		<link>http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2008/05/01/developers-on-notice/</link>
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		<title>No King But Caesar - An Epilogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I had time to dwell on all the dud Roman themed games that have passed in front of me. The half finished Pax Romana and Great Invasions, the laughable Legions, the boring Hannibal: Master of the Beast, Haemimont&#8217;s Roman city builders, Haemimont&#8217;s RTSes. Most of these games aren&#8217;t very interesting as reflections on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2008/04/30/no-king-but-caesar-an-epilogue/</link>
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