http://4xgamer.com/
For the record, I dislike the term and view it as yet another superfluous and dumb-sounding neologism. The name of the genre is simply grand strategy, and it comes in two varieties: turn-based and real-time. And these are the terms we will be using on this site.
Apart from that, the 4xgamer site seems really cool. A couple of minutes of skimming already yielded these two really cool soundbites (which I will be explaining at length in the corresponding reviews in Videogame Art: Volume I):
ben wrote:but short of Dwarf Fortress, I’ve never seen a game so openly hostile to allowing new players to play it
http://4xgamer.com/2012/12/22/spacesect ... a-new-one/
ben wrote:SMAC+AC is still revered as the best 4x game ever made by large swaths of the strategy gaming community
http://4xgamer.com/2012/12/20/gog-now-i ... with-smac/
His About page however does seem to imply that he's a Master of Orion fan, seeing as it has a MOO2 screenshot:
http://4xgamer.com/sample-page/
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It even implies that it's his favorite game, which would indicate that he has terrible taste... So we'll see I guess. At any rate the site should be a good source for news in this genre, which should be helpful.
