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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, [...]

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 [...]

This post does well in Google, but the game has been patched many times and the first expansion just came out. My final thoughts on Civ V including tech priority prior to the expansion can be found here. I took a couple week’s break from Civ V, but I recently completed my most successful game [...]

Now that I’m an official beta tester of an iPhone game I thought I’d quickly list the games that I let dwell on my iPhone. Although I’m a life long gamer and a long time Mac fan, I was slow to join the iPhone revolution. I didn’t even have a cell phone until I moved [...]

For the record I’ve gone 4-1 with one NC. I lost Orleans and decided I’d be better off restarting only to learn Civ V no longer scores abandoned games. I could have perhaps rallied, but I had tried some different and apparently less effective things that game. Although I’ve been far from productive post return [...]