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As I settle comfortably into my Unc arc, I've found myself spending more and more time with military simulations. Yes, I still enjoy the chaos and ridiculousness of modern Call of Duty, but I find myself drawn more and more to more thoughtful approaches to warfare. The WW1 series is arguably the most "realistic" approach to the first-person war-shooter genre in the market today, and WW1 Gallipoli, coming out sometime this summer, is the next entry in that long-running franchise. From my all-too-brief time with it on the show floor at PAX East, it might be the best WW1 game so far. I bet you could ask anyone in the US to name the major powers involved in the second World War and they'd easily list off the Axis and Allied powers. If you changed it up, though, to ask about the first World War, plenty of Americans would have a much harder time. Personally, I didn't learn much about World War 1 in school other than the United States swooped in near the end and helped save the world from ruin. The reality of World War 1 is so much more interesting and complex: in short, the entire system of human civilization at the time was completely upended. These weren't just countries fighting other

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