I've just purchased (from Best Buy) and installed 'The Settlers - Rise of an
Empire'. It was manually updated to v1.5. However, upon starting the game,
the little copy protection disk cursor comes on and the I am told to "Insert
the original DVD" even though it's already in the ...

Are there any new commercial turn-based, squad-based, sci-fi  releases upcoming
?
Also, are there any indie x-com clones even close to being released in a
decent, stable beta form ?

At least in the west (I don't think they ever left the PC in Japan/China)
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Hey guys, i was just thinking on investing in galactic civilisations 2
Can any body tell me how combat takes place in it? How does weapon
upgrades work out for example how different is laser iii from laser ii

Anyone tell me why after installing Beyond the Sword for Civ4 my Ottoman
leader portrait has gone completely bright red and my Korean leader protrait
has tunred into the invisible man with a moustache?

I was at Walmart last night and saw a game on the shelf called 'Imperivm
Romanvm'. I can't find any real info on it on the web. Even Game
Rankings shows nothing for this game. Any one here have it and have
opinions of it? If it is just the standard RTS fare then I am not

Matrix games has 2 Harpoon games for sale. Which is better. Which has
the potential of finding most opponents?

Anyone try this new one out? I remember the old Seven Kingdoms I & II
as being unplayable through either bugs or poor AI. It has been a long
time though and maybe they've made some big improvements.

<rant>
Good lord, these Timurids are truly men of steel.
My campaign was going well as England. All the lands west of Poland are
English -- only Rome remains untouched as a courtesy. North Africa is

Was in the Chaos campaign. Met Eldar for the first time. I annihilate
them and they keep sending troops. I've scanned the entire map fully
with aircraft and they have no buildings other than listening posts. I
see a walker vehicle pop into existence near a listening post. After

Who helps me to test my card game software?
I developed it by myself. If you are interested in it, please
download
and test it, find out any mistake and bug, tell me how to improve it.