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After taking over six months off from playing the game, I got dragged back into playing Sid Meier’s Civilization V by the announcement of the games first expansion, Gods & Kings. The reviews for the expansion are already out, even though us Mac users can only just download it. Not all the reviews are favourable, [...]

Civilization did not spring fully conceived from the mind of Sid Meier back in 1991. It was an extension of his previous work such as Pirates! and more directly Railroad Tycoon. It was also influenced by the board game Civilization, it’s successors such as Advanced Civilization and to a lessor extent History of the World. [...]

Update July 24th, 2012: not sure why, other than sheer stubbornness and a willingness to suffer and waste an uncountable number of evenings and weekends, but I did finally pass the CFA Level 1 exam. Below are some thoughts recorded the day after sitting the exam in June for the last time: If I have [...]

While I was trying to study, someone on Facebook posted a picture of what I thought was their friend dress as Chun Li from the video game Street Fighter 2. Turns out it was Yaya Han who appears to have made a career out of creating costumes and dressing up as characters from video games, [...]