Books with Value
We Value our books and would like you to do so with us! We will hold our first book review on April 12th on stream and we invite anyone who is interested to read along with us!
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Civilized Barbarians in 0 A.D.
We all know and love our Barbarians and simply can’t get enough of them. Swaying their axes into history and chopping down civilizations wherever they set foot. Well, not in 0 A.D.!
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Return to the Interactive Past!
Today, our book Return to the Interactive Past was published through Sidestone Press!
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The Past-Present-Future Game Awards 2021!
It’s that time of year where we make lists of the brilliant games we’ve played. Last year, we made a VALUE Game of the Year, this year it’s time for The Past-Present-Future Game Awards 2021!
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Mod-ception – The Player developer in 0 A.D.
Part III of 0 A. D. A free open-source game of ancient warfare would not be open and free without a dedicated community. The community does not only play the game, but they can also tweak the game to their liking and they enthusiastically use this option!
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0 A.D. Part II: Bring in the Queens!
Today the second part of our 0 A.D. series! We take a look at a vital, but historically often overlooked, group of society: Women! Not only will we show some interesting historic characters, discuss the ‘standard’ citizen in this game, but also take a look at the limits of these ancient women.
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Heavy Rain: Revisited
Marcel recently revisited a game he had played seven years ago: Heavy Rain. Back then, it’s ability to have players choose how the story would unfold was very new and revolutionary. Skip to seven years later, and there have been more and more narrative driven games where the player gets to influence the narrative. How does Heavy Rain hold up to modern standards? Before you read: Heavy spoiler alert. We’ve tried to hide the biggest plot-twists, but we cannot hide them all. Don’t say you haven’t been warned!
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0 A.D. – The Renaissance of Ancient Video Games
Ever wanted to lay your eyes on a game in ‘Alpha Phase’? Ready for an RTS game that has the ambition to change the playing-field of historical games? Want to know what it looks like when Romans get ignored, but the Kush Empire and Mauryan Empire are cherished? In short, would you like to be surprised by a game that has been in development for over a decade? Read our series on this game now! Today: part I.
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Bulletin: Retro Gaming Scams, Civ VI in Minecraft and Age of Empires IV!
It’s been a while, but were back with a bulletin, albeit short! In this week’s bulletin, we discuss Retro Gaming Scams, The Dark Pictures Anthology, Civ VI wonders in Minecraft, Call of Duty: Vanguard’s heroes, Paradox troubles and Age of Empires IV attempts to help new players!
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Svoboda 1945: Liberation Review
Last year July, we played Attentat 1942 during one of our streams. Developed by a team of historians and game developers at Charles University in Prague, it revolved around a particularly dark moment in Czech history: the Second World War and the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (and subsequent retaliation by the Nazis). Svoboda 1945: Liberation, the second game made by Charles Games was released on August 3rd. It portrays the situation in the German-Czech border region of Sudetenland just after the war. Once again, Charles Games have managed to make an amazing game, which will not only give you new insights into this often overlooked part of the war, but will also make you think about how heritage is viewed through different personal lenses. Here’s a short review, trying to not spoil the game too much for you.
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