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GAME INFO publisher: Microsoft developer: Big Huge Games genre: Strategy MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS PII 500, 128MB RAM, 16MB video card, 800MB HDD	ESRB rating: T homepage: www.microsoft.com/games/PC/riseofnations.asp release date: May 20, 03 (released)

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DEMOS	size	date
demo	194.1MB	May 13, 03

PATCHES	size	date
v1.03 patch	10.6MB	Nov 14, 03

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»	May 20, 03 Rise of Nations review There's an old saying - "A man is only as old as he feels". Typically, the only people who tell you this are old farts, sitting on a park bench soiling their adult diapers... » MORE

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Previews

»	Feb 19, 03 Rise of Nations Hands-On Microsoft Game Studios and Big Huge Games were thoughtful enough to give us a peek at their latest beta build of Rise of Nations, a rather enjoyable combination of RTS and turn-based gameplay principles. Similar to Rick Goodman's Empire Earth... » MORE

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»	Jan 15, 2008 THQ Gets Rise of Nations Developer Publisher THQ reveals via Gamasutra that it has acquired Big Huge Games, best known for creating the strategy Rise of Nations and the sequel Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends. » MORE

»	Jul 18, 2006 Best-selling PC Games of June Thanks to VE3D.com for this rather interesting data: As you know, these lists of top-selling games don't mean much without some insight into the actual number of units sold. » MORE

»	Jun 12, 2006 Top-selling PC Games in May And here are some of the culprits for the drop in sales, so to speak. The top 20 best-selling PC games for the month of May: 1. Guild Wars Factions-NCSoft 2. » MORE

»	Jun 06, 2006 Top-selling PC Games in the US The gang at NPD Techworld sounds off with the list of the top 10 best-selling games in the US for the week ending May 27: 1. Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion - 2K Games 2. » MORE

»	May 10, 2006 Mornin' Today's the day, people. Today the gates of hell, err.... I mean the doors of the L.A. Convention Center will pry open to unveil the latest achievements in the video game industry, as well as a heap additional technical stuff (most of it junk, btw). » MORE

»	Apr 29, 2006 Updated Rise of Legends Demo Well this is sort of a good news, bad news situation. The good news is MS has released an updated demo of Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (one with far less bugs and even some added content). » MORE

»	Mar 31, 2006 Rise of Legends Demo Today Great (no seriously, great) news for RTS fans. Big Huge Games will be releasing a demo of their upcoming Rise of Nations sequel, Rise of Legends, at 9am PST today! The demo contains both campaign and skirmish modes and clocks in at around 600 Megs. » MORE

»	Mar 10, 2006 New Rise of Legends Screenshot Big Huge Games has released a new shot from their upcoming Rise of Nations "spiritual successor," Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends. Prolly my second most anticipated title after Elder Scrolls IV. » MORE

»	Mar 02, 2006 Rise of Legends Shot The official Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends website released a single screenshot from Microsoft's imminent real-time strategy. Hey, it's not much, but it looks sweet. » MORE

»	Feb 21, 2006 Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends Screen Check out the new Rise of Legends screen. It's not much, but it looks cool. After playing the latest build of the game, provided by MS, I can honestly say we're all looking forward to playing the full version. » MORE

»	Oct 24, 2005 New Rise of Legends Shot New Rise of Nations weekly high-res screenshot on the official site. This is the RTS to look out for, trust me on that. » MORE

»	Oct 11, 2005 Rise of Legends Screenshot(s) Big Huge Games has released new high-res screenshot(s) from their upcoming amazing-looking RTS sequel, Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends. Check it out. » MORE

»	May 11, 2005 Rise of Legends Screenshots VE3D has gotten some high-res screenshots from Big Huge Game's upcoming cyber-punk-themed Rise of Nations sequel, Rise of Legends. Itching to try this one. » MORE

»	May 09, 2005 Rise of Nations 2 to be... different... Rise of Nations 2 is going to come out, and apart from the fact that it will be a strategy game, and have the same name as Rise of Nations, not much else will be the same. » MORE

Oct 28, 2004

RoN: Thorns Thrones and Right Wing Lunatics Patriots Patch still coming
Big Huge Games would like for you to know that the Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots Patch is still on the way. They state the following: The release of patch 1 for Thrones & Patriots is still pending, despite the accidental posting of the download instructions on our site.

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»	Sep 08, 2004 Things Worse than deadly STDs: The Weekly Top Ten List In contrast to the last message, we've got this horrible, bloated piece of shit to discuss. Yes, you guessed it, the script to Attack of the Clones The Weekly Top Ten Best Sellers List. » MORE

»	Aug 26, 2004 Top-selling PC Games List These NPD top selling PC games lists are really fucking depressing. Here's the latest one for the week ending Aug 14: 1. Doom 3 (Activision) 2. The Sims Deluxe (Electronic Arts) 3. » MORE

»	Jun 30, 2004 Top 10 Best Selling PC Games The biblical apocalypse has been averted... for now. The Sims is back on the list and EA again has a number one selling PC game. This one for the week ending June 19th. » MORE

»	Jun 16, 2004 Weekly List of Top-selling PC Games Heralds the Coming of End Times You can't see me right now, but as I'm typing this post I'm yelling at the wife to pack our stuff as we're moving in an abandoned mine just outside the city. » MORE

»	Jun 14, 2004 Weekly PC Top Ten Here's another one of those NPD PC top-selling charts. This one indicates that City of Heroes was the most wanted PC game in the US during the week ending May 29th. » MORE

»	Jun 07, 2004 Top-selling PC Games Here we go, baby, the best selling PC games in the US for the week of May 22nd. Surprisingly enough, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is on top of the pile, which kind of makes very little sense. » MORE

Apr 23, 2004

Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots Demo
Awesome stuff! The folks at MS have released a trial version of their upcoming Rise of Nations expansion, Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots. The game is supposed to ship very soon now, so be sure to download the demo before you buy it.

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»	Apr 14, 2004 RoN: Thrones and Patriots Golden The folks at Microsoft send word that their expansion to Rise of Nations, Thrones and Patriots, has gone gold and should hit the stores on April 27th. » MORE

»	Feb 13, 2004 AIAS Nominees Announced Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has announced the finalists for their 7th annual Interactive Achievement Awards that'll take place at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas on March 4. » MORE

»	Nov 24, 2003 Rise of Nations: Throne and Patriots I managed to miss this announcement a couple of days ago, but I guess it's never too late to inform you that Big Huge Games is working on an expansion to their popular strategy games Rise of Nations called Fall of the United Nations. » MORE

»	Jul 31, 2003 NPD Top-Selling PC Games NPD Techworld has released a list of the top-selling PC games for the week of July 13 through July 19. 1. Warcraft III: Frozen Throne Expansion Pack 2. » MORE

Jul 02, 2003

Top 10 Games
And you thought that the recent departure of the co-founders of Blizzard North wasn't that big of a deal for Vivendi and Blizzard Entertainment... Well think again, buster! Diablo 2 is holding on to the 5th spot in the latest Top 10 list of best selling PC games in the US ending the week of June 21st.

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Mar 28, 2003

Do Cheaters Ever Prosper? Just Ask Them.
NY Times (free registration required) has published an article entitled Do Cheaters Ever Prosper? Just Ask Them. "The article starts by discussing the use of macros (bots) to automate tedious tasks in The Sims Online, and gets interesting as it discusses when designers feel the need to intervene.

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»	Jun 19, 2003 Top 10 Games of the Week NPDTechword has posted the top 10 best-selling PC games for the week ending June 7th. The Sims are smacking the charts around again. If the charts were Tina Turner than the Sims would unmistakably be her ex-husband Ike Turner. » MORE

»	Jun 16, 2003 Big Huge Patch for Rise of Nations It seems that Big Huge Games made a big huge cock-up with the latest auto-patcher for Rise of Nations. Hence, a new patch for the game has been released, updating Big Huge Games' RTS game to version 1. » MORE

Jun 12, 2003

US Weekly Top-Selling PC Games
The randy-dandy folks at NPD Group/NPDTechworld have made a midget porn movie. Nope, but they came close, because, in my book, releasing a list of top-selling games in the US for the week ending May 31st is very much similar to producing a midget porn movie.

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»	May 20, 2003 Rise of Nations Ships to Stores Microsoft sends word that their strategy game Rise of Nations has shipped to stores across the North American continent. We've gotten our press copy of the game from the boys at MS about a week ago, and were able to publish our review today. » MORE

»	May 13, 2003 Rise of Nations Demo is Here Microsoft unleashed a 194 MB demo of Big Huge Games' strategy game, Rise of Nations (our recent impressions of the game's last beta build can be found over this way). » MORE

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