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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 |
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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
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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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It's always nice to see a developer that admits its mistakes and makes amends with players. Stardock is the latest example, as the company has begun sending out coupons for all those players who bought and registered Demigod, the Gas Powered Games developed multiplayer-oriented videogame.Given the problems that ... |
26 May 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has just released the first piece of downloadable content for Halo Wars, the last game developed by Ensemble Studios. It's called the Strategic Options pack and adds three entirely new game modes to the real time strategy title. It costs 800 Microsoft Points, or 10 dollars if you are interested in real... |
20 May 2009
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Blizzard is one of the biggest and most popular video game companies around the world, largely due to the fact that it listened to its user base and tried to deliver the most solid and interesting titles on the market, even though these games were often delayed and released “when they're done.”Now, t... |
7 May 2009
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Blizzard Entertainment has released two new patches for players of its still-popular, real-time-strategy game, Warcraft III. Both Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne fans can download the new patches for free, right here on our website. With the 1.23a release for both Warcraft III games, Blizzard has addressed a few is... |
17 April 2009
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Halo Wars is quite the surprise. It is a real time strategy title shipped exclusively for the Xbox 360 gaming console from Microsoft. It is based on the popular Halo franchise that has only featured shooters until now. It managed to sell no less than 1 million units pretty quickly, making it a success. Unfortunately,... |
16 April 2009
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Mezmer Games, a subdivision of Paradox Interactive, is announcing that its debut title, Stalin vs. Martians, is set to be released world wide to gamers on April 20. The title has been developed by three studios, Black Wing Foundation, Dreamlore and N-Game, and should be offered through digital distribution services, ... |
10 April 2009
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When people think of strategy games, they think of stuff like Red Alert 3, the Command & Conquer series, or, if they are more niche, of Empire: Total War from Creative Assembly or Europa Universalis from Paradox Interactive.But in a few years, when talking about strategy, we might not be able to approach the subject ... |
3 April 2009
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The first Majesty game had quite an interesting concept at its heart. The game was real time strategy but one of the most important resources that players could use, heroes, were not directly controlled. Once spawned, they wandered around doing their own thing and players could only indirectly influence their objecti... |
31 March 2009
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Red Alert 3 was one of the most expected titles of last year's holiday season, as fans were eager to see where one of the most beloved series in the Command & Conquer series would take the story. The hype campaign surrounding it was unprecedented, with the team at EA Los Angeles pulling out all the stops to prom... |
27 March 2009
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Ubisoft is announcing that it aims to launch a new intellectual property, called R.U.S.E. The game will be a real time strategy, with development duties handled by Eugen Systems, known for creating Act of War: Direct Action in 2005. R.U.S.E. is set to arrive on the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC at the end of... |
26 March 2009
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Electronic Arts (Los Angeles) has announced the release of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 for Macintosh, the third installment in the popular RTS series. The game adds a fresh story, new units, breathtaking cutscenes using real actors, an emphasis on Co-Op and a well-balanced multiplayer experience. Every faction is ... |
24 March 2009
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Red Alert 3 was one of the most anticipated titles of last year, being the latest installment in the critically acclaimed Red Alert segment of the historical Command & Conquer franchise. It brought with it a star-studded cast, the classic live action cutscenes and a completely new story to tell players. Sadly, it di... |
21 March 2009
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Ubisoft is announcing that it has released the first patch for the PC version of EndWar, the real strategy title set in the Tom Clancy universe. There are quite a few changes in the patch, the most important one being listed below. You can use this link to get the EndWar patch 1.1 from Softpedia.Ubisoft is saying tha... |
20 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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Strategy games are a very special genre in the industry, as they usually address a niche audience, but, with the right marketing, can also appeal to a broader one. However, once they release a successful title, their developers are usually only classified by specialists as Real Time Strategy experts, and when they co... |
12 March 2009
13:21 GMT |
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In about one day, the players who have been enjoying Red Alert 3 on the PC will have the chance to download and play Uprising, the PC-only digitally distributed mini expansion that Electronic Arts has created.The new content is set to be made up of four different campaigns, one for each side of the original game and ... |
11 March 2009
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Ubisoft said that it had canceled all plans to release World in Conflict: Soviet Assault for the Xbox 360 gaming console from Microsoft and for the PlayStation 3 platform from Sony. This comes just as the company confirmed that the release for the PC was in no way affected and would go through in the final days of Ma... |
4 March 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Piracy has and will be a very hot topic for the gaming industry. Despite the big number of measures that developers and publishers resort to in order to keep their titles away from the hands of pirates, sooner or later things go out of their reach and into the large file sharing networks across the world, where every... |
2 March 2009
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You have to appreciate Relic’s guts. In the original Dawn of War, it had a beautiful game, which generated three successful expansion packs, played nice in multiplayer, provided epic battles and was quickly enshrined in the Hall of Fame of RTS games. It had it all: base building, teching up, a lot of unit types... |
27 February 2009
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The StarCraft franchise has been one of the most successful ones from Blizzard, which has released a variety of add-ons and expansions for the original game. Now, as the large company is slowly but surely letting out tidbits of information about the second title, it seems that some things won't stay the same as ... |
26 February 2009
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Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad are announcing that they have released Entrenchment, the first mini expansion for the RTS Sins of a Solar Empire. You can get it through the Impulse digital delivery system from Stardock for the low price of 9.95 dollars.As the name implies, Entrenchment is based on the idea of giv... |
26 February 2009
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Blizzard is one of the most popular video game developers out there, largely due to the attention it directs to its games, and to the great experiences that titles such as Diablo, StarCraft or World of Warcraft offer to players. But although fans are extremely loyal to the company, the outsatndingly long and secre... |
18 February 2009
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Console strategy games seem to be the next best thing on which developers and publishers are betting they'll make a few bucks. One of the biggest strategy titles of last year, Red Alert 3, from Electronic Arts, is available on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and is also set to go on the PlayStation 3 later in 2009, ... |
6 February 2009
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The Halo franchise is an extremely popular one, as it has single handedly shaped how people play and are attracted to console shooters. While the first two games really helped Microsoft with its first ever gaming console, the Xbox, when Halo 3 appeared, for the next generation Xbox 360, people were already hooked on ... |
4 February 2009
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Electronic Arts announced its plan to charge gamers just 19.99 dollars for the upcoming Uprising, the expansion pack for Red Alert 3 that has been officially unveiled and set to arrive in March. It's a good price for the expansion and we're hoping that the content delivered will make up for the slight disap... |
29 January 2009
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Blizzard Entertainment has released an update for the Mac version of StarCraft and its expansion Broodwar. Version 1.16.1 introduces an Enable CPU Throttling option for limiting CPU cycles, a fix for the recently added "/reply" command, and various other fixes and tweaks. Head over below for the full scoop, and the d... |
23 January 2009
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Sony Online Entertainment announces having acquired PoxNora, a collectible card strategy game played online. The press release states that other “key assets” that might be required for a future project have also been bought from Octopi LLC, the developer based in Tucson.Not only digital elements were acqu... |
21 January 2009
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Relic Entertainment, the developer of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, has really outdone itself. The guys worked on the game with such vigor that THQ, the publisher, has just announced that it plans to release the strategy title one week earlier, on February 19. The initial release date was February 26. The ti... |
20 January 2009
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EndWar could be the future of real time strategy on consoles. Or it could be just a dead end in the evolution of console videogaming. I believe the fate of EndWar could be decided by the way reviewers and gamers approach it in the long term. Tom Chick seemed to like it. Others noted that the game was limite... |
16 January 2009
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Electronic Arts is well known for claiming to be console neutral, which means that it will aim to bring its most important releases on all the current gaming platforms, the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PC, with the Wii being targeted when the game suits the audience of that console. Re... |
15 January 2009
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2008 was riddled with discussions related to DRM and especially to its heinous SecuRom incarnation. Spore, the big release from Electronic Arts, was especially attacked for implementing a security solution meant to combat pirates but ended up annoying the common gamer. Other developers implemented similar solutions f... |
14 January 2009
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Who said PlayStation 2 gaming was all but dead? The console, which is old and yet still sells pretty well, is continuing to get its share of videogame releases, even if the real big titles have long moved on to the next gen PlayStation 3 or the rival Xbox 360 from Microsoft. Thus, the older console is getting a bigge... |
13 January 2009
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Blizzard has been on a very high ascending trend in the last few years. However, although the hugely popular World of Warcraft MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) has risen to new heights in terms of paying subscribers, 11,5 million, it seems that the company isn't resting on its laurels, as ... |
13 January 2009
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Electronic Arts has officially unveiled the Uprising expansion for Red Alert 3, which is set to be released in March and pick up from where the single player campaign left off. And now it seems that the publisher is also picking up the habit of introducing very attractive ladies for the full motion videos that will b... |
12 January 2009
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Azeroth Goldrush is a Hero Arena map for the Warcraft 3 expansion pack. The Frozen Throne modified it so that it would offer a more competitive team play. The map includes many custom-made heroes with exciting new spells that are unlike any other ones. Gamers can choose to play the title in three styles: conquest, ex... |
10 January 2009
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When Creative Assembly announced its plans to create a console real time strategy title called Stormrise, a lot of people were skeptical. After all, the developer has a lot of experience with creating the Total War series, but until now, no one has been able to deliver a console RTS as popular as those on the PC... |
9 January 2009
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Relic is announcing that Dawn of War II will be getting an open multiplayer beta set to begin on January 28. The beta files will be delivered to those interested via the Steam digital distribution service as offered by Valve. Those who have bought and played Warhammer 40,000: Soulstorm, the latest incarnation of the ... |
9 January 2009
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Element TD is an eight-player Warcraft 3 custom map. Just like others Tower Defense maps, invading hordes of creeps follows a specific path, from the spawning point to the finish. In order to complete the map, you must build towers that will kill the creeps and bring you victory! The map has 60 levels, and you start... |
9 January 2009
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Ubisoft can be a pretty weird publisher at times. With no prior announcement, the French company has released a new add on for its console real time strategy title Tom Clancy's EndWar. It's called the Faction Elite Pack and it’s a piece of downloadable content that can be obtained from the Xbox Live M... |
9 January 2009
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I think most of those who call themselves gamers know this word or at least know someone who knows it. For those of you who have no idea what DotA means I will try to make a brief presentation. DotA is a map created for Warcraft 3, but based on the Aeon of Strife map for Starcraft. It is basically a RTS map, but it&r... |
8 January 2009
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The RTS (Real Time Strategy) genre is one of most popular ones on the PC gaming market. It has evolved since the first titles and now some franchises have come out on top and they are here to stay. Series like Blizzard's StarCraft or Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer will entertain PC gamers for quite some... |
7 January 2009
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We all know that we are supposed to be having fun as 2008 turns into 2009. Lavish parties, outdoor concerts or intimate get togethers with friends should be the way to welcome the new year but sometimes we just need a bit of gaming in our lives.If you think you're going to need something to play on New Year'... |
30 December 2008
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In a way, it’s unfair to compare Sins of a Solar Empire, from Ironclad Games and Stardock, with the biggest real time strategy title released this year, Red Alert 3, from Electronic Arts and its Los Angeles Studios. They are very different games, with far apart settings, and target audiences that rarely mix. Bu... |
28 December 2008
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Touted as one of the best-selling Mac games of all time, Black & White is a real-time strategy title where players become a young god. The sequel to the highly-acclaimed game has now been confirmed for a January 6 release, coinciding with the opening of exhibits at Macworld 2009 in San Francisco, where attendees can ... |
23 December 2008
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Blizzard is certainly a game developer very popular with the gamer community, largely because it delivers great titles, such as WarCraft, Diablo or the massively successful World of Warcraft MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), which has over 11 million paying subscribers. But, although all of th... |
22 December 2008
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Electronic Arts has declined to confirm various rumors that the studio it has in Los Angeles is currently working on an expansion for this year's real time strategy title Red Alert 3. French site Jeuxvideo has been reporting that the expansion is called Uprising and that it would be launched in 2009. Meanwhile, ... |
19 December 2008
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Most of the gamers who like RTS (Real Time Strategy) games remember Ensemble Studios as responsible for the very solid and popular Age of Empires franchise. But, as the franchise was considered by Microsoft, the owners of Ensemble, not very profitable in the long term, the team was informed that the studio would clos... |
16 December 2008
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