Myth: teenager gets accepted to college, buys a new computer, packs things up, and flies out to start a new life. Fact: teenager gets accepted to college, buys a new computer armed with an atrocious amount of processing power, RAM, and graphics card, packs things up, and flies out to start a new life. Today we'll focus on the issue of the vastly overpowered PC that has become commonplace by industry standards. Let’s face it, how many of us actually looked at the tech specs on our computers before coming to Cornell? Don’t answer, it’s a rhetorical question.

When you walk into a video game store, you know what you're going to get: a lot of first person shooters, sports games and fantasy RPGs. Very little variety. If these kinds of games appeal to you, great. If they don't, chances are you won't find something different for a very long time.

Sins of a Solar Empire is 2008's award winning 4xRTS title from Ironclad Games, with multiple game of the year awards in an assortment of categories. I bought it late last semester and started playing it online with a few friends. We were hooked.