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 Send to email | Off the Grid reviews Power Grid in off-the-gridoffthegridpower-grid |  By Scott Jon Siegel
el 20-Jun-2008 | Filed under: Reviews, Strategy
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Every other week Scott Jon Siegel contributes Off the Grid, a column about card games, board games, and everything else non-digital.
In real life, scarcity isn't fun. Scarcity is the rising price of gas, or the difficulty of finding a job. In a game, however, scarcity can be incredibly compelling, and make for a very unique play experience. Enter Power Grid, a board game by German designer Friedemann Friese which uses scarcity at every level of its design to produce one helluva strategy title.
The player's task in the game is to power as much of the country as possible (United States on one side of the board, or alternatively Germany on the other). As heads of various power companies (think Montgomery Burns or whoever runs PG&E), your tasks are to buy power plants, purchase resources, and allocate those resources to control as many houses in as many cities as possible. Money's not the deciding factor here; players will be judged and ranked solely on the amount of power they're pushing.Continue reading Off the Grid reviews Power Grid Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| GRID getting new cars, events later this year |  Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Driving
Codemasters has dropped word that new racing machines will be pulling up to GRID's starting line later this year. The game will be getting a new DLC pack, [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Sep-2008 by Jason Dobson in carscodemastersdlcdownloadabledownloadable-contentgridrace-driver-grid
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| Race Driver: GRID demo races to a million downloads |  Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Driving
With the latest in Codemasters' Race Driver series, GRID, expected to roll up to the starting line next week, the company has announced that t [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-May-2008 by Jason Dobson in codemastersdemogridrace-driverrace-driver-gridracedriverracedrivergrid
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| Off the Grid + Joyswag: Donkey Kong Jenga |  Filed under: Culture, Features, Retro, Puzzle, Strategy, Joyswag, Competitive Gaming
It's been awhile since we've brought you an Off the Grid post, and we're returning with a special edition where you can actually win the game we're talk [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Nov-2008 by Kevin Kelly in Board-GamesDonkey-KongJengaJoyswagOff-The-Gridretro
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| Codemasters Races GRID To Japan [Big In Japan] | | UK developer Codemasters have set their sights on Japan, announcing a fully localized version of the recently released Race Driver: GRID heading to to Japanese shores this winter. While the game in it's current form already boasts a series of Japa [..] Read complete article | | Published 06-Jun-2008 by Mike Fahey in CodemastersColin McCrae: DirtNewsPS3Race Driver: GridXbox 360
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| UK electricity crisis over - for now | | Power rationing started this week
Analysis The UK electricity market has recovered from a troublesome shortage of supply on Tuesday, according to network operator National Grid. However, some analysts are seeing the problems - which included power cuts and reduced supply voltages - as a warning sign of more trouble to come.
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| SUNN : Solar powered car | | At least this vehicle will not cause a debate about the source of the electrical power. You know, the one about electric cars still getting their energy from the grid. The SUNN is completely solar powered, and as the inventor states; “You get infinity miles per gallon”. Now, if it only had the styling of [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Apr-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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