As most of you know I have spent the last 2 years working on Galactic Civilizations II, and the last 8 months of that or so working on its Expansion Pack Dark Avatar. G4's X-Play, formerly TechTV's X-Play, just gave Dark Avatar the type of review that makes all the long hours and unused vacation days worth the effort. Check it out.

New Page 1 Damaging a perfectly good Battleship. Today I got to spend sometime making some damage decals for Galciv2. Using my old standby, CorelDraw. We came up with some nice looking stuff. With luck by the time the game goes gold we will have animated damage, with plasma venting and lots of fun stuff like that. Bang, your dead, or at least scorched a bit...