Supreme Commander 2, which dropped on store shelves March 2, 2010, is a great real-time strategy game. I like the scroll-out full battlefield view – which I think the C&C team should think about incorporating in to their own game, at least for solo campaigns and skirmishes. I also like the scavenging ability and field commander. There’s one “research” I found that I think is either bugged, or they just laughed as they added it. The Cybron faction has a research under the Structure tab, which allows you to convert energy in to mass. My opinion – don’t research it, unless you have a mass amount of energy stations built. It *will* drain your energy, and very quickly. You will struggle to keep unit production up, and you can forget about having your experimental units on queue re-cycle.

I’ve had Supreme Commander 2 installed for a little over 2 days now, and have already completed 9/10 of the full campaign on hard. I do enjoy the “experimental” units for each faction, and how the tie the storyline together throughout the campaign. I feel the campaigns for each faction could have been longer, as I don’t plan on playing multiplayer, and I foresee the skirmishes becoming less and less enjoyable as the time goes on. Don’t get me wrong, the AI is written excellent (during campaign), but it’s sort of like the C&C Generals AI, where it becomes extremely predictable (perhaps a patch will come out for that).

I do think this is a game that was creatively written, and I look forward to any expansions, or future SC games that may come out, but my opinion on replay value for Supreme Commander 2 is moderate. This is due to poor Skirmish AI, and a very small campaign mode. Your best bet for skirmishes would be through Steam, where you can play against other players.

G.ho.st – Global Hosting System – announced in the beginning of the month that it will be shutting its services down to its extensive community on March 15, 2010. This comes right after a switch to a new domain located at ghost.cc, and promises of new features. Any where you look, you will find the following message to its users.

Dear Ghost User,

We hope you have been enjoying our free Ghost service. Regrettably changes in the marketplace mean that it is no longer economical for us to host the Ghost service and we will be closing down the service on or around March 15. We will instead be focusing on licensing or selling our technology to larger companies.

We advise you to migrate ALL important folders, files and emails to another secure place before March 15. You might like to consider Google Docs or Microsoft SkyDrive for files and services such as Gmail or Yahoo! Mail for email. Some instructions for migrating data are included below.

We are really sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you and are very grateful for the fantastic support we had from our community.

For those unfamiliar with the G.ho.st service, it was an extensive free Web OS. You were granted larger storage space based on referrals – 1GB per successful referred sign up. Being a Web OS, they offered an integrated messenger, email client, mp3 player, office applications (spread sheets, etc.) and many other features that made this the worlds most versatile Web OS.

Reading the G.ho.st forums, you can see that many of the G.ho.st users are unhappy with the decision to shut its services down. Many of whom state that they would gladly pay a premium fee for the service. G.ho.st won’t state whether or not they have already found a buyer for their service, or if it will be permanently commercial. They’ve also started a petition which can be found at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ghostpersonal/

I know that all of the continual users will miss this service, and I hope that when it’s sold, the new owner releases it as a public service – even if it is a paid service.