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Generals 2 Returns to the Roots of the Command & Conquer Series, Gets New Details

We were quite surprised with the announcement of Command & Conquer: Generals 2 over the weekend during the 2011 Spike TV Video Game Awards, largely because it’s a real time strategy title that will be exclusive to the PC, a niche that isn’t that profitable and not usually promoted during such events.Still...

13 December 2011
17:21 GMT

Warzone 2100 2.3.9 Officialy Released

Warzone 2100, a game that was initially launched in 1999 by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive, has now reached version 2.3.9. We reviewed Warzone 2100 a while back and found it lacking in several departments, mainly because it was rather uninteresting to play.Anyway, the developers have released a sw...

28 November 2011
10:40 GMT

Origin PC Millennium RTS Desktop Locked and Loaded

The Millennium RTS (Ready-To-Ship) desktop is the new computer that showed up on Origin's website, a big, solid creature of steel and other materials that costs $1,799 (1,337.04 Euro). The new machine that Origin has put together has all the performance and design people have come to expect from high-end pre-c...

21 November 2011
10:01 GMT

Download StarCraft II Patch 1.4.0 for Mac OS X

Blizzard Entertainment has released StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty version 1.4.0, a downloadable patch containing minor cosmetic alterations and a bunch of fixes.Patch 1.4.0 may not be one of the most highly anticipated of updates, but it does deliver a considerable amount of general changes, such as a new Career pag...

22 September 2011
10:59 GMT

Mac OS X Version of League Of Legends Officially Scrubbed

Riot Games is “regretfully” canceling the League of Legends Mac beta client developed in partnership with TransGaming, citing issues with maintaining consistent parity between Mac and Windows PC versions in a rapid update cycle.Announced last year, League of Legends is regarded as a DOTA clone - an action...

6 September 2011
11:01 GMT

Anomaly Warzone Earth Review

Tower defense games are to the independent gaming scene what military first-person shooters are to the triple-AAA part of the industry, largely because lots of small developers are trying their hands on making titles in the genre in order to get their name out there. While this has caused almost the whole genre to...

19 April 2011
07:15 GMT

StarCraft II Cheat Codes Revealed by Blizzard

Blizzard decided to encourage StarCraft II players to stop using third party hacking tools or game trainers, which results in the company banning or suspending their account, and has finally released the complete list of cheats that were implemented by the development team in the best selling real time strategy title...

3 December 2010
04:15 GMT

Next Command & Conquer Game Will Be Developed by EALA, Not Visceral

At the beginning of the week Command & Conquer fans were pretty shocked to hear that Visceral Games is the new studio in charge of developing the series, but it seems that the rumor was false, as EALA is still in control of the real time strategy franchise.Last week we heard that Visceral Games, a development studio ...

21 October 2010
02:27 GMT

StarCraft II's Next Patch Already Detailed

StarCraft II, the year's biggest real time strategy title, has already received its first patch last week, but that hasn't stopped Blizzard's' Chris Sigaty from talking about the next patch, which he hopes will be launched before the end of the year.The previous StarCraft II patch has been reveale...

28 September 2010
03:41 GMT

Virtual Programming Launches Supreme Commander 2 for Mac OS X

Virtual Programming has released an official report announcing the immediate availability of Supreme Commander 2 for Mac OS X. The real time strategy game drops players in the middle of a war between three galactic empires where they command huge armies with customizable units.Virtual Programming kicks off the announ...

27 September 2010
09:21 GMT

Secure Your Copy of Starcraft II for Mac OS X Now

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the sequel to the original 1998 video game by Blizzard Entertainment, is coming on July 27 for Mac OS X, the creators of the game have confirmed. Developed for concurrent release on Windows and Mac OS X, StarCraft II is split into three installments: the base game with the subtitle Win...

22 July 2010
05:18 GMT

EndWeekGame: April 16

Andrei Dumitrescu: I've never played Warhammer 40,000 with the painted figurines and the landscapes, mostly because I only discovered their existence a few years ago, and the costs for a country which is just emerging from Communism are rather prohibitive. But I loved playing around with the first Warhammer 40,0...

16 April 2010
18:21 GMT

Royal Envoy - Rebuild Your Kingdom

I'm convinced that by now, most of you have heard about Playrix Entertainment or at least have played some of their amazing games. From trademark names such as Fishdom or Call of Atlantis, many of you have become fans of these types of time management and puzzle games. So, here I stand giving you a small sneak p...

16 April 2010
03:56 GMT

EndWeekGame: April 9

The first few months of 2010 have been pretty busy in terms of quality videogame releases due mainly to publishers being scared (with good reason, it seems) to actually put their titles up against behemoth Modern Warfare 2. And there are quite a bit of games that I still need to play more of, like The Awakening expan...

9 April 2010
17:51 GMT

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight Will Expand the RTS Audience

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is now out worldwide and a lot of people are playing a real time strategy title that has changed fundamentally since the launch of Tiberium Wars, in 2007.The game has no actual resource gathering and the overall gameplay is now based on classes and on crawlers, rather than the b...

24 March 2010
15:11 GMT

Gas Powered Games Announces Kings and Castles

Gas Powered Games has announced its next project and it seems that the company is aiming to create a whole new fantasy universe. It will be called Kings and Castles and will tell the story of a battle between three kings who are aiming to control an entire universe. The title will be offered for both the PC and home ...

16 February 2010
14:11 GMT

Sword of Stars 2 Will Be a Revolution in 4X Gaming

Paradox Interactive held its own convention last week and announced quite a few new projects it intends to publish. One of them is Sword of the Stars II, a sequel to the 4X space strategy title set to be released on the PC at some point in 2011. And now both the developers at Kerberos Productions and the publishers a...

29 January 2010
14:51 GMT

Command & Conquer 4 Beta Will Soon Be Open to All

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is set to be the last videogame in the long running series featuring iconic character Kane, so a lot of interest on the part of real-time fans is justified.One of the best ways to evaluate where the developers at EA Los Angeles are taking the game is an open beta period, which a...

28 January 2010
08:05 GMT

Achron: RTS Time Travel Is Engaging and Scary

Achron is the sort of brain bending experience that managed to make a title like Portal a success. Actually, Achron is closer to Braid in that it allows players to control their units not only in the three dimensions of physical space but also in the flow of time. But where Braid only tasked you with controlling one ...

22 January 2010
18:01 GMT

Download Warcraft III 1.24d for Mac OS X

A revision to Patch 1.24 for Warcraft III is now available for free download, Blizzard Entertainment has announced. The new update is available for Warcraft III and its two installments, Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne. Bringing the fantasy real-time strategy game to version 1.24d, the recent release fixes an ex...

22 January 2010
06:45 GMT

Time Traveling RTS Achron Ready for Preorder

Hazardous Software has announced that Achron, a title billed as “the world’s first meta-time strategy game,” is available for preorder starting with January 1, 2010 for all those who are interested in the idea and are ready to contribute to the further development of the concept. Achron is being dis...

5 January 2010
15:21 GMT

RTS of the Year: Dawn of War II

Usually, Game of the Year nominations and awards are given out to titles released in the last half of the year, mainly because that's when publishers put out the biggest videogames and because gamers have rather short attention spans.Thankfully, there were not that many real time strategy titles outed in 2009 an...

28 December 2009
17:51 GMT

King Arthur – The Role Playing Wargame

King Arthur – The Role Playing Wargame is one of the nicest surprises of the later half of the year. Sure, we've reviewed a lot of good games lately but most of them, like Modern Warfare 2, Uncharted 2 or Dragon Age: Origins, were known quantities when they finally arrived, after months of hype, media pres...

8 December 2009
08:32 GMT

King Arthur – Magic, Knights and Britain

For about a week now, I've been playing King Arthur – the Role Playing Wargame, a title created by Neocore Games, which has also made Crusader - Thy Kingdom Come. And, despite some flaws, the game offers quite a unique and engaging experience that, as the name implies, uses a base structure similar to that...

2 December 2009
18:11 GMT

The Next Command & Conquer Will Be a Far More Social Experience

The RTS genre became what it is today sometime around the early 1990's, with Dune II in 1992, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994 and the 1995 Command & Conquer, as the fathers of the genre. The games have evolved a lot since the beginning of their franchise, and at least one of them plans to make a radical change t...

30 November 2009
06:03 GMT

Supreme Commander 2 Coming in Spring 2010

Square Enix is continuing its push to conquer the Western gaming market by announcing that it will be releasing Supreme Commander 2, the real time strategy videogame from Gas Powered Games, during the spring of 2010 on the PC and the Xbox 360 home gaming console. The sequel is set to take place 25 years after the...

24 November 2009
03:15 GMT

Command & Conquer 4 Arrives on March 16

Electronic Arts has announced that Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is set to be released in stores on March 16 in North America and three days later in Europe. The real time strategy title should be the last outed in the Tiberium universe by the publisher and aims to provide a fitting end to the struggle among...

16 November 2009
08:04 GMT

Starcraft II Beta Coming in Early 2010

Starcraft II just might be the biggest videogame slated to be released in late 2009, but pushed back into 2010. Activision Blizzard was surely concerned about the fact that the real time strategy sequel, which has been expected by gamers for the better part of a decade, would compete directly for the money of the pla...

13 November 2009
04:33 GMT

Infinity Ward Might Work on New IP

Infinity Ward has become a development studio associated with the Call of Duty brand and the Modern Warfare series. Their collaboration with Activision goes back a lot and players are already talking about Modern Warfare 2 and its 2011 release date. But it seems that the developers themselves might actually be intere...

5 November 2009
18:01 GMT

Internet Evolved Enough for Starcraft II Authentication to Work

Blizzard has announced that Starcraft II will need an Internet connection in order to allow even single player games to be launched and that all the multiplayer action will go through the infrastructure of Battle.net. A lot of players were up in arms over the measures, saying that they would limit access to the game ...

29 October 2009
16:11 GMT

King Arthur Arrives on November 12

NeocoreGames has announced that it plans to release the English version of its King Arthur video game on November 12 through a variety of yet-unnamed digital-distribution channels. A boxed copy of the title is set to arrive in stores later in the year. It's interesting to see the developer offering the title as ...

27 October 2009
14:31 GMT

Dawn of War II Is a Serious Influence on Starcraft II

Starcraft II is the biggest video-game release of the fall of 2009, which has been pushed into early 2010. And the extra time, while probably annoying those gamers who have been eagerly waiting for the sequel for the better part of the decade, has allowed the team to take an extra look at the title and see how recent...

27 October 2009
06:34 GMT

Command & Conquer: Red Alert for iPhone Screenshots

Earlier this year, video-game publishing label Electronic Arts confirmed that work had commenced on Command & Conquer: Red Alert for iPhone and iPod touch. The game seems to be coming along, with EA now offering a sneak peek at its visuals, gameplay style and other elements that fanatics will surely spot in the rece...

13 October 2009
06:45 GMT

Square Enix RTS Order of War Arrives on September 22

Square Enix has announced that Order of War, its Western style real time strategy title part of the company's campaign of enlarging its audience, should be released on September 22 for the PC.The game is set in World War II during the year of 1944 and will allow strategy fans to play two single player campaigns,...

3 September 2009
03:20 GMT

LAN-Like Internet-Based Play Mode Possible for Starcraft II

It has been known for quite a bit of time that Starcraft II will not be featuring pure Local Area Network multiplayer games, with Blizzard saying that it aims to eliminate LAN play, thus routing all the multiplayer gaming through a beefed up Battle.net.But now, several statements from Blizzard people point the way to...

25 August 2009
05:42 GMT

Tricia Helfer Will Provide the Voice for Kerrigan in Starcraft II

At BlizzCon, the developers working on Starcraft II at Blizzard announced that Tricia Helfer, who provided the voice for the Cylon model Number Six in the recently concluded Battlestar Galactica revival, was set to star as Kerrigan in the real time strategy that should be released in 2010. She joins a cast that alrea...

24 August 2009
05:44 GMT

Command & Conquer 4 Is a Risk, Developer Says

The Command & Conquer RTS franchise from EA Los Angeles has been a staple of a classic strategy series for quite some time. Even in the most recent iterations from various franchises like Tiberium Wars or Red Alert 3, the mechanics weren't drastically different than the ones featured in the first titles, which a...

24 August 2009
02:42 GMT

Download Warcraft III Patch 1.24a for Mac OS X

On the heels of releasing World of Warcraft Patch 3.2.0 yesterday, Blizard Entertainment has released separate patch versions for Warcraft III: Reign Of Chaos and Warcraft III: Frozen Throne, addressing two issues recently found with the popular RTS title available for Mac OS X and Windows platforms. Both the Warcra...

5 August 2009
05:02 GMT

Halo Wars Leaderboards and Matchmaking Data Reset

Halo Wars is now a new game. Not because a major DLC pack or an update has modified its variables radically but because of the fact that leaderboards and matchmaking rankings are reset to the date when the title was released following a problem related to Xbox Live.A brief post on the official forum now maintained by...

30 July 2009
07:50 GMT

EndWar Gets Story-Driven Sequel

EndWar was one of the innovative games of the last year. The Shanghai developed and Ubisoft published real time strategy title paired voice commands with a focus on small unit tactics and a super weapon system that always gives the losing player a chance to catch up and turn the tide of battle.Still, the game lacked ...

28 July 2009
13:41 GMT

Fight Historic Battles in Halo Wars

Microsoft has announced that Halo Wars, the real time strategy game set in the universe symbolized by Master Chief, is set to get another downloadable content pack. It will be called Historic Battles and will be delivered via Xbox Live for the price of 800 Microsoft Points, which is the equivalent of 10 dollars in re...

15 July 2009
05:19 GMT

Halo Wars Update Coming with Balance Fixes

Robot Entertainment, the company which is made up of veterans of the now defunct Ensemble Studios and handles support work for Halo Wars, has announced that it intends to release a new patch for the game, offering some balance changes, most of them suggested by players and a slew of bug fixes. Title Update 3 has no c...

14 July 2009
16:01 GMT

StarCraft II Will Get Delayed, Says Analyst

StarCraft II is one of the biggest games that are set to appear at the end of this year, promising to take players on a new adventure based on one of the most successful Real Time Strategy titles ever made. But don't forget that Blizzard, the company that is making it, has a habit of not releasing a game if it ...

14 July 2009
03:54 GMT

Command & Conquer 4 Officially Unveiled by EA, Here Are the First Details

We have been talking about the fourth installment in the Command & Conquer franchise Tiberium storyline a lot in these past few weeks. As we found out a survey in which players were asked what kind of features they would like to see in a new C&C game, it seemed that the new game might be announced quite soon. Yesterd...

10 July 2009
03:58 GMT

Command & Conquer 4 Accidentally Announced by Electronic Arts

The video game industry is constantly changing, not only in terms of the development tools that creators have at their disposal, but also as regards communicating with the target audience. New ways of socialization, like online networks such as Twitter, have revolutionized how average gamers can get their information...

9 July 2009
03:51 GMT

Blizzard Reveals Details About StarCraft II's Missions

There has been a lot of talk about StarCraft II recently, largely because the development team at Blizzard announced that LAN support for the multiplayer would not be included in the game. Even though fans made a lot of petitions backing up the need for LAN support, as we reported yesterday, the corporation defends i...

3 July 2009
03:39 GMT

New Survey Shows Details About Command & Conquer 4

There are certainly many video game series out there, a lot tackling different styles or genres. But an extremely important one is the Command & Conquer franchise or real time strategy games, developed by EA Los Angeles, former Westwood Studios, and published by Electronic Arts.In this franchise, there are several ot...

23 June 2009
16:51 GMT

StarCraft II Will Arrive This Year If It Will Be Finished

Blizzard is one of the biggest video game developers in the world, owning some hugely popular franchises like Diablo, StarCraft or World of Warcarft, the latter being the most popular MMORPG in the world, boasting over 11,5 million subscribers. The company has already announced a lot of projects, including Diablo II...

19 June 2009
16:21 GMT

E3: Ubisoft Lays Out R.U.S.E.

One of the games that Ubisoft recently announced but failed to elaborate upon was R.U.S.E., a strategy title that is being developed by Eugen Systems, team that has also delivered Act of War: Direct Action, a competent RTS but lacking innovation.At the E3 industry trade show, the publisher offered more information on...

3 June 2009
04:48 GMT

Argos Naval Yard Added to Sword of the Stars

Publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Kerberos Productions have announced that they plan to release a new expansion pack for their space-based real time strategy title Sword of the Stars. The new content pack is called Argos Naval Yard and is set to arrive on June 17. Gamers who are interested in it will have t...

27 May 2009
02:34 GMT


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