7213 noted that the Tradewars site has announced "Tradewars, Dark Millennium", which presumably will be a MMORPG ^[?] RTS based on the terrifyingly addictive game that I used to write scripts to play my turns for me in middle school. Screenshots and descriptions are available, but its gonna be vapor for a long time I'm sure. TW2002 is really where I met Hemos, Nate, and Kurt The Pope. God I loved that game.

rts writes "A well written article about how copyrights and patents are anti-free market is running in the Canadian paper "The National Post"." The backdrop to the story is, perhaps inevitably, the Napster case - but it's much better written then most of the other bazillion Napster editorials. Update: 01/28 04:48 PM by S :The article refered to this paper by Stephan Kinsella.

limpbizkit sent in a review of strategic commander, a new controller designed especially for real-time strategy games (StarCraft, Red Alert, etc). Yeah, it's made by Microsoft, but they have a history of making excellent input devices. The controller puts a lot of buttons on the mouse, and I gotta say I'm pretty curious. Wonder how long before we have X11 drivers ...

turpie writes "CNET's Gamecenter is running a story about dying game genres, their arguments seem valid for some genres like Flight Sims, and but are stretching it a bit for others like RTS (StarCraft) (they may not be too original anymore but I wouldn't say they're dying.) I'm also wondering what this leaves us apart First Person Shooters (ala Dooom & Quake)?" For that matter, since the first person shooter, I don't feel like a new genre has really appeared in awhile.

Winning one of the longer title awards, SEGV has returned with a review, this time of Mickey Kawick's Real Time Strategy Game Programming using MS DirectX 6. For those of you want to know how to program the next Warcraft or Age of Empires, click below.

An Anonymous Reader wrote in to say "Beograd.com is reporting that the US has ordered the shudown of satellite feeds into Yugoslavia. This may just be rumor, but I read www.rts.co.yu and www.serbia-info.com on a daily basis. As of this morning, both Serbia-based sites are now inaccessible. " I aso haven't managed to find confirmation of this, but I've heard it from several folks too. This is a scary form of warfare.

Andrew Walbert writes "Golgotha Forever has officially relaunched! Join forces with us as we endeavor to create the best RTS game ever on the most platforms ever! Read the Press Release and sign up! " Excellent base for what could be one of the most impressive Open Source games ever.