PC gaming hasn't been going through the best times in recent years, and, at least according to some analysts, it will be dying out in a matter of months or possibly years, succumbing to the popularity of consoles, which are more user friendly to gamers and, in some cases, piracy free. But the platform is still ... |
21 April 2009
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I love Total War games. I did so from the moment I first saw Shogun and understood the beauty of marrying tactical battles, which looked and moved gorgeous for the time when the game was released, with the management options of the strategic level.I questioned the move to 3D strategic maps in Rome, but eventually I u... |
21 March 2009
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PC gaming has suffered from quite a lot of hate and disinterest from some developers and publishers due to the high piracy rate and the fact that normal retail sales aren't always as high as expected, compared to the ones from the online content distribution services. But things are still going well for the com... |
18 March 2009
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This week, my playing time has been totally taken over by Empire: Total War, the newest combination of real time battles and turn based strategy from Creative Assembly and SEGA. But there has been other news we talked about and here's a handy round up.Monday saw at least one analyst overestimate the power of DLC... |
14 March 2009
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The United Kingdom has fallen and the United States (or should I say the Thirteen Colonies?) are next in line for Empire: Total War, the strategy game developed by Creative Assembly and published by SEGA.In its first week on sale, the title sits atop the UK videogame chart, managing to take last week's number on... |
12 March 2009
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Game development isn't easy, especially when you make a game for the PC platform, which is as varied as possible due to different configurations and runtime environments. That is why a lot of games receive patches from time to time, as testers don't have enough time to find out all the bugs present in one t... |
12 March 2009
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When Empire: Total War was initially announced by Creative Assembly, die hard fans of the series were glad and threads on fan sites like Total War Center asked two things from the developer: better Artificial Intelligence in the battles and better diplomacy. In fact, since Shogun, the game has been affected by variou... |
10 March 2009
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The PC platform has its own particular needs and specific titles, as a lot of PC gamers find it handier to play complex games by using the keyboard and a mouse. Strategy games are among the aforementioned titles, which, although they have appeared on consoles, are better played with mappable keyboard filled with keys... |
10 March 2009
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PC gaming has been subject to quite a lot of controversy in recent months, as piracy has been on the lips of quite a few developers and other industry analysts, as they released lists of countries that indulge piracy and where the most users who tend to pirate new video games or software releases are found. But that... |
3 March 2009
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What better way to make sure that your game gets interest from hardcore players than to hire a hardcore player to look at the game and then say something nice about it? That's the approach that SEGA and Creative Assembly have recently used at the Leipzig Games Convention as they brought in Sanatana Mishra, who h... |
26 August 2008
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Not much of Empire: Total War has been showed until now. Creative Assembly was more keen on talking about its new project Stormrise at E3, but some people got to see the next Total War in action. In an interesting twist, the developers have so far refused to show any footage detailing the ground combat in the game, d... |
22 July 2008
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SEGA is delivering news that developer Creative Assembly is working on a strategy title for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The game, which is developed by the Australian studio of CA, is called Stormrise and will be set in a post-apocalyptic future where two factions need to fight for resources.The console-focus... |
14 July 2008
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I must confess to harboring a deep love for all things related to Total War. From Shogun to Medieval 2 I've played them all, I've suffered until the patches brought out the potential of the games and played some extraordinary mods coming out of the community. So, no game of 2008 (begone, Starcraft II and GT... |
23 April 2008
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