I've been tooling around the gaming industry for a lot of years
now and while the innovation and creativity in it never cease to
amaze me, there are certain things I believe to be unchangeably
true. Playing the next Peter Molyneux game will never be half as
entertaining as listening to Peter Molyneux talking about his
next game. Ms. Pac-Man will always be hotter than Lara Croft.
Fallout fans will always be the model for how to run a
restrained and intelligent Internet discussion forum, and Halo
Wars makes it clear that the PC desperately needs a good RTS
game. I'm beginning to wonder if it will ever get one, though.
This is not, I believe, the fault of the many talented
developers who toil away daily in the gaming ghetto that is the
PC. It's a combination of things that just make the console a
much better RTS experience than any that might be offered on a
beige box. There are technical issues such as Microsoft's
notorious lack of support for the platform. This makes sense
from a business perspective, of cour