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Sengoku (PC)

Give a Western gamer a strategy map and the option to recruit armies and he will go on a killing spree and try to fight his way to domination. Paradox Interactive, through its grand strategy game like Europa Universalis and Victoria, has sought to take the focus away from pure warfare and move it towards economy, dip...

14 October 2011
07:26 GMT

Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece Delivers Diplomacy, More Tactical Options

Hegemony: Philip of Macedon was one of the small but interesting real-time strategy titles of 2010 and managed to be a finalist in the PAX 2010 video game competition and now the development team at Longbow Games has announced that it has released Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece, a game which uses the foundatio...

24 February 2011
13:31 GMT

Victoria II: Take Your Diplomatic Hands Off My Sphere

Victoria II is the latest grand strategy title launched by Paradox Interactive, aiming to simulate the complex mix of diplomacy, wars and social upheaval that characterized the period between 1836 and 1936.There's a lot to like in how Paradox Interactive managed to simulate the XIX century and the beginning of t...

26 August 2010
18:41 GMT

Victoria II: Declare War Early and Advance Decisively

Victoria II is the latest grand strategy title launched by Paradox Interactive, aiming to simulate the complex mix of diplomacy, wars and social upheaval that characterized the period between 1836 and 1936.I've played four long games of Victoria II until now (blame me going to Gamescom for the limited play time,...

24 August 2010
18:41 GMT

Diplomacy Is All About War in Sins of a Solar Empire

Ironclad and Stardock seem to have finally declared the features included in their real-time strategy Sins of a Solar Empire complete. The game, initially released in 2008, has come a long way with Entrenchment and Diplomacy, becoming even more complex with the addition of more options for a sturdy defense and the in...

17 February 2010
16:41 GMT

Sins of a Solar Empire Trinity Announced by Stardock

Stardock has announced that it plans to release a new bundle called Sins of a Solar Empire Trinity, which will allow players who have enjoyed one of the best strategy titles of 2008 to get the most out of it by packing together the original release with the two micro expansions, Entrenchment, which has been available...

10 December 2009
15:21 GMT

Sins of a Solar Empire Gets Game of the Year Edition

Stardock and Ironclad Games have announced that they are set to release a Game of the Year Edition version of Sins of a Solar Empire, one of the best real time strategy games of 2008. The new pack should arrive on October 30, just in time for Christmas and will be integrating all of the patches launched for the game,...

29 October 2009
04:44 GMT

New Sins of a Solar Empire Patch Aims to Rebalance the Game

Sins of a Solar Empire was a surprise hit and one of the best strategy titles of 2008. It managed to blend the familiar mechanics of exploration, expansion and extermination with a 3D engine capable of nicely rendering space battles that involved hundreds of fighters and dozens of capital ships.The game also offered ...

1 October 2009
14:01 GMT

More Diplomacy Coming to Sins of a Solar Empire

Sins of a Solar Empire has been one of the surprise hits of last year. It was a real-time strategy title in the 4X mold, which allowed players to create a space empire and then engage in warfare, trade and diplomacy with their rivals in order to achieve domination of the galaxy. It was notable for its huge space batt...

17 September 2009
16:41 GMT

Hearts of Iron 3: Why Diplomacy and Intelligence Matter

Hearts of Iron 3 arrived at the end of last week and since then much of my day has been taken up by extended playtime and by anxiously checking the official forums of the game looking for opinions, improvement ideas, reactions and, of course, the inevitable bug reports. And they all came fast and furious, with some p...

11 August 2009
17:51 GMT

Russia Denies Possibility of Conflict in the Arctic

With recent discoveries in the Arctic regions and the North Pole, the potential for a military confrontation between regional powers increased significantly, military analysts warned at the time. Norway, Denmark, the US, Canada and the Russian Federation all claimed areas of influence over rich oil and natural gas fi...

11 June 2009
17:01 GMT

Russia to Establish Military Presence in the Arctic

According to a new strategic plan currently under consideration in the Kremlin, the Russian Federation now plans to create a new strategic task force that would serve the sole purpose of protecting the nation's interests in the disputed Arctic region. Over the years, the country has made it pretty clear that it ...

28 March 2009
06:03 GMT

Empire Total War: Missing My Princesses

One of the biggest changes that Creative Assembly has made in Empire: Total War is related to agents. In the previous games in the series, the player had the command of diplomats, who were needed to contact other nations; spies, who were handy in scouting ahead of the army; assassins, who were good at taking out gene...

13 March 2009
19:41 GMT

Taiwan Officials Blackmailed into Becoming Chinese Spies

The Taiwanese Justice Ministry announced on Thursday that four of its officials had been arrested under accusations of being spies for mainland China. A spokesperson for the Ministry said in a press conference that the four had been filmed by Chinese authorities while entertaining themselves in several hostess lounge...

12 February 2009
10:13 GMT

Pandas Warm China-Taiwan Diplomatic Relations

The significance of the gift that China made Taiwan is very high, analysts say, as the two giant pandas that are to be taken to the Taiwanese capital of Taipei tomorrow represent just the latest in a string of good-will gestures that the mainland engaged in over the past few months. The animals can only be found in t...

22 December 2008
04:45 GMT

Former FBI Agent Proposes Second Internet

In an article addressing Internet security in general and cyber crime and criminals in particular, Patrick J. Dempsey, Chief Information Security Officer for Janney Montgomery Scott, and former FBI agent, had an interesting and yet disturbing solution to the problem. He proposed creating a second Internet, one for wh...

28 February 2008
16:06 GMT


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