Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games have come a long way towards challenging today's armchair generals, transforming the genre into various contests of resource control, environmental tactics, and intricate unit management. "Space War Commander," a new RTS from Dreamspike Studios, is a game which cuts out the complexity and takes a retro approach, looking and playing like [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 24, 2009
Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 exclusive "Halo Wars" has gone gold, which means the version that gets on retail shelves is complete and ready for mass production. The game will ship in two editions, one standard and one special which will include bonuses like the last "Halo 3" map pack, a new vehicle, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
If you're a PS3 owner without a good gaming PC and you've been waiting to try "Red Alert 3," now's your chance as EA has announced that this March, they'll be bringing "Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Ultimate Edition" to the PS3 in mid-March. The "Ultimate Edition" version of the game will include everything from [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
Already done with “Command & Conquer Red Alert 3?” No worries, because today EA has announced that the game’s first expansion, the standalone title “Red Alert 3: Uprising,” will be coming to PCs this March.
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
When they released the system requirements, THQ said to keep an eye open Thursday for "Dawn of War 2" beta news. Well, it’s Thursday, and the news is here. Starting January 21, the Dawn of War 2 multiplayer beta will release exclusively on Steam to owners of "Dawn of War: Soulstorm". On January 28, the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 7, 2009
THQ revealed the system requirements for their upcoming RTS, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2. The system requirements aren’t onerous, so that’s good news. The original Dawn of War ran pretty well on rigs that couldn’t run other new releases without frequent chugging, so chances are the minimum requirements on Dawn of War 2 are [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
When a game is released touting a unique method of gameplay, one's natural inclination is to be skeptical. Gamers have been promised a number of revolutions in control mechanics as of late, and far too often, what we ultimately receive are poorly-used motion controls, poorly-used touch controls, or pointless and gimmicky butt controls. Ubisoft set [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
Last month's live preview of Empire: Total War involved quite a number of new features, not including the live sailing lessons -- as cool as they were, the final release of Empire will not allow you to sail around the San Franciso Bay with a bunch of game journalists. You'll have to wait for the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 27, 2008
Three months ago, we met the gentlemen from The Creative Assembly and Sega at E3, a group of folks who happened to be working on a game called Empire: Total War. As the latest game in the Total War series, Empire takes the franchise's mix of turn-based army management and real-time strategy, and washes it [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Poor, poor Mr. Hollister. Once again, your enthusiasm for PC gaming will see you waiting patiently while console gamers get to play hotly-anticipated games first. PC Gamers already suffered a blow from the Mirror's Edge PC delay, and now they have to sustain another: Ubisoft has stepped up and declared that EndWar, their voice-controlled RTS [...]
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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