In case you missed it first time around in March 2010, this epic space conflict AAR is about as required-reading as this site has to offer.

Neptune’s Pride is a slow-form multiplayer Strategy game. We got together with our friends from PC Gamer to play. Weeks of bloodthirst, treachery and violence on a galactic scale later, we stopped. Then took a few weeks to recover. And then we wrote about it. The results follow. They say more about the players than anyone would like to admit.



The combatants:

Phill Cameron aka Poisoned Sponge, writer

Tom Francis, PC Gamer

Kieron Gillen, Rock Paper Shotgun

Hentzau, writer.

Chris Pelling aka Crispy, Inventive Dingo Games

Quintin Smith, Rock Paper Shotgun

Jim Rossignol, Rock Paper Shotgun

Graham Smith, PC Gamer

Here’s where, roughly, they all began:

And here’s how it all turned out:

Good times. Treacherous times.