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Kriegspiel

By Tim Stone on March 8th, 2008.

In between annoying booksellers and creating a philosophical justification for urban rambling French Situationist Guy Debord did a spot of wargame design. His chess-like Kriegspiel is now available in a free Java form thanks to experimental software collective RSG. There’s no AI, which is sad, but those in the market for a cerebral two-player TBS with stylish art direction, a slick interface, and a lovely logistics mechanism, should download at the double.

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