  Thursday, June 26, 2008  History and Gaming  I'm sure this has
been all over the Net by now, but a short summary. In the early
90s, a spinoff from Civilization was made called Colonization.
Basically being the same game shrunk a bit to cover the
1500-1800s age where Europe had colonies all over the world.
Well, now they are using the Civilization 4 engine to make a new
Colonization. Its been known about for a little under a month
now.  This game blogger at Variety (
http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/06/civilization-
iv.html?cid=120259136#comment-120259136 ) took offense to it,
claiming it either glorifies the European atrocities that took
place, or whitewashes it if the player chooses to not kill
everyone in sight.  This is an incredibly stupid line of
thinking. Dare I say it? IT IS MADE OF FAIL. (For non Netspeak
people, this means it is incredibly wrong on so many levels as
to be an embarrassment not only to the writer, but to anyone
misfortunate enough to read it.)  While I am loathe to link t