There's an interview with Bruce Shelley on GameZone talks with the Ensemble Studios and MicroProse veteran about his new role consulting with Ubisoft's Blue Byte studio on The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom, the next installment in this strategy/management series. They learn how he got involved, his role in the project, the ups and downs of working on an existing franchise, interesting North Americans in the series, the current state of the strategy genre, and more.