Some strategy games derive their challenge from their broad features, allowing one to craft a master plan involving dozens of different units and unique abilities. Others take the opposite approach, like Inventive Dingo's "Mayhem Intergalactic," a game which has only two possible moves yet dozens of potential strategies.
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 20, 2009
"PoxNora", a hybrid online turn-based strategy and collectible card game by Octopi, got Sony Online Entertainment very, very interested as they have now acquired the studio and its assets, baptising it Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), Tucson. With the constantly shrinking industry, no thanks to the infamous recession, it's always good to see large corporations decide to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Jaded gamers looking for their turn-based war-gaming fix, might be pleased to hear of Matrix Games' Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge. Developed by Games Factory Inc, it is, for all intents and purposes, a 3D re-imagining of the classic Jagged Alliance titles. While the official Jagged Alliance 3 is -- slowly -- coming our way [...]
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, September 17, 2008
Last night, the very last match in the Reset Generation Invitational finally arrived. GameCyte, having battled its way past highly respected journalists Evan van Zelfden, Brandon Boyer, and Joe Blancato, stood battered, bruised, and rescue-weary on one side of the battlefield. On the other side loomed the mighty Chris Hudak of Evergeek Media, still bloodied [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Update: WE'RE WINNER!!! It's been a while, folks, but we haven't gone soft -- we've been rescuing the hell out of any princess we could get our hands on while we waited to compete in the final round of Nokia's Reset Generation Invitational. Now, the long wait is over, and the final round is at hand. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Last month, we had a chance to offer a preview of Yggdra Union, a PSP remake of the GBA strategy-RPG of the same name. Developed in Japan by Sting Entertainment and put through Atlus' localization process, the game tells the story of an epic, nation-spanning war across the realms of Fantasinia, featuring clashing armies, magic, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 26, 2008
I had the chance recently to spend some time with Yggdra Union, a colorful fantasy strategy-RPG from Atlus and Sting Entertainment. The game, a quirky, card-based, semi-real-time tactical JRPG, is actually a PSP remake of a GBA title which was released in 2006. I never had the opportunity to try the original, but according to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 15, 2008
GameCyte has advanced to the semifinal round of the Reset Generation Invitational, a grueling series of Reset Generation matches between the best writers and personalities in the games industry (and us too). Against all odds, we have rescued four princesses so far, leaving our opponents' castles lonely and depressing, and bringing ourselves inexplicably closer to [...]
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Friday, January 23, 2009
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