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Indie development micro studio 3 Sprockets is releasing a fast-paced 3D Tower Defense game called Cubemen in the iTunes App Store for iPad.
Already available for Mac OS X, Cubemen promises to put a new spin on the tower defense genre. The game mixes classic real-time strategy tactics with multiple game modes and mul... |
29 March 2012
13:11 GMT |
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The developers at Cyanide and the publishers at Focus Home Interactive have announced that Game of Thrones – Genesis, the real time strategy based on the A Song of Ice and Fire series from R.R. Martin, is now available both in digital stores and at retail.Th game takes place well before the events shown in the ... |
29 September 2011
09:07 GMT |
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Publisher Trion Worlds and developer Petroglyph have announced that their MMO End of Nations has been pushed back to 2012, although neither company is willing to further narrow down the launch window.Trion Worlds was initially aiming to release End of Nations during the fall of this year but at the moment the develop... |
27 September 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Warzone 2100 is an open source real time strategy game, with a long history. There aren't many RTS games on the Linux platform and you might think that any title would fill this void. Unfortunately, just because this type of games are few and far between, it's not a guaranty that any of them will be any goo... |
23 September 2011
10:40 GMT |
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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 |
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A new patch specifically targeting Mac gamers has been released for Age of Empires III, the third installment in the popular real-time-strategy (RTS) franchise, portraying the colonization of the Americas by the Europeans.
The Mac version of Age of Empires III, released on November 21, 2006 in North America and on... |
24 August 2011
10:16 GMT |
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We already know that Blizzard is aiming to launch its own version of DOTA for the Starcraft II real time strategy game at some point during 2012, close to the launch date for the Heart of the Swarm expansion, but we know little about the experience that the mod will be offering. Two leading developers at Blizzard ha... |
23 August 2011
18:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft seems to be planning to launch yet another free-to-play video game, called Castle Empire, which will have a medieval theme and will apparently fill another niche in the line up of the publisher.
It seems that Castle Empire will be played entirely in a browser and will not require gamer... |
11 July 2011
03:27 GMT |
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Video game publisher THQ has confirmed that a new Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War III title is under development, saying that the team working on it aims to preserve some of the elements from the two already launched installments while adding new elements that will surprise the player base.Danny Bilson, who is an execut... |
15 June 2011
18:41 GMT |
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A new experiment that has been published in the medical journal Brain and Cognition shows that having specific regions of the brain bigger than normal might be an advantage when learning and playing real time strategy games.
The experiment was conducted by Doctor Chandramallika Basak from Rice University and he wo... |
19 May 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Developer Blizzard Entertainment has announced that on March 29 it will begin a beta testing phase for the Chinese version of its real-time strategy hit Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, with the plan being to launch the game during this year on the Chinese market.The beta test period will allow players to create an ac... |
21 March 2011
06:51 GMT |
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One of the most interesting fantasy-based video gaming projects of 2011 is A Game of Thrones: Genesis, a strategy game that includes role-playing aspects and aims to bring gamers up to speed with the history of the land of Westeros, the setting for the well-known series of books created by author George R.R. Martin.
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14 March 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Retribution is the third expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, the strategy game from developer Relic and publisher THQ that gave a hugely needed shot in the arm to the strategy genre way back in 2009.
The big addition coming in the standalone release is the fact that six whole races (Space Marines, Chao... |
7 March 2011
18:21 GMT |
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Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty has been launched during the summer of 2010 and went on to be a hit when it comes to a PC-only strategy game, managing to quickly take the place of the original game in the series in the e-sports world, specifically South Korea.
But the process of creating the game was hard and Dusti... |
7 March 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Developer Ironclad Games and publisher Stardock have announced that they are working on a new game in the Sins of a Solar Empire series, called Rebellion, which is set to be delivered this year and will be stand alone, playable without requiring the player to own the original game or any of its two mini expansions.
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2 March 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Warhammer 40,000 has never been better represented in a video game than in the Dawn of War strategy series, and, when developer Relic and publisher THQ announced that the second expansion, Retribution, would be receiving a beta stage, a lot of people jumped at the chance to see how the game plays now, how the Imperia... |
28 February 2011
18:41 GMT |
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A new Command & Conquer game has been officially confirmed by Electronic Arts, the franchise owner, and is currently in development at the newly-formed Victory Games studio.
At the beginning of the week, a new Command & Conquer website was leaked before its official release, complete with details about an all-new ... |
25 February 2011
13:01 GMT |
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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 |
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Turbo Tape Games, as the developer, and Paradox Interactive, the publisher, have offered more information on Naval War: Arctic Circle, the real-time strategy game that focuses on naval battles and will allow players to command some of the most powerful naval task forces in the world.
The game has been officially u... |
18 February 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Danny Bilson, who is the executive vice president of core games at publisher THQ, has announced that the developers at Relic are working on a new real-time strategy title and that an official announcement about it will be made at some point during August.
A Twitter message from the executive says, “@gogators... |
17 February 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Ironclad Games, as the developer, and Stardock Entertainment, as the publisher, have announced that the Trinity version for Sins of a Solar Empire, the space-based real-time strategy title, is being prepared for the release of patch 1.2, which is currently available for beta testing for all those who own the game. T... |
14 February 2011
05:19 GMT |
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Video game publisher 505 Games and Reverie World Studios, as the developer, have announced that they are working together to bring to the market the MMO Dawn of Fantasy, which will focus on delivering a massive multiplayer experience based around a real time strategy scaffolding, with an in-game universe that uses cl... |
24 January 2011
03:10 GMT |
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Developer Blizzard has released a demo version of its hit real-time strategy-title Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, available on both the PC and the Mac for all those who are interested in seeing how the game plays out.The initial release of Starcraft 2 happened on July 27, 2010, which means that the demo is about 5 mo... |
22 December 2010
05:15 GMT |
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This was the year when Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty showed what a real time strategy could deliver in terms of experience when it’s polished close to perfection and plays it traditional, while Relic continues to redefine the tactical level by incorporating even more role playing elements and diverging paths in the C... |
17 December 2010
17:51 GMT |
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I spent more time playing Neptune's Pride this year than I've spent playing any other game, with the possible exception of Football Manager 2011, but the free browser based strategy title never took more than 10 consecutive minutes out of my gaming life.
And the game created by Iron Helmet deserves a lot... |
16 December 2010
18:41 GMT |
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Frank Pearce, who is an executive at and also one of the co-founders of developer Blizzard, has said that the release during the same calendar year of both Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty and the Cataclysm expansion for the MMO World of Warcraft is just a coincidence and not a sign of a new approach from Blizzard when ... |
10 December 2010
03:31 GMT |
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It seems that Blizzard will not be working on a true strategy based installment for the Warcraft series any time soon despite fans asking for it for quite some time, as it simply lacks the manpower and the talent to take on another big franchise at the moment.Greg Street, who is the systems designer for the Cataclysm... |
9 December 2010
10:33 GMT |
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343 Industry and Microsoft have decided that they will continue to offer online stat tracking for those who are still playing Halo Wars, despite an initial announcement that said integration with the Halo Waypoint forum would mean that stats would be wiped out and that tracking would no longer be offered.
An offic... |
9 December 2010
04:51 GMT |
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An analyst has said that Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, the real time strategy blockbuster from Blizzard, could be officially launched in China during next year, with the developer and its Chinese partner NetEase now working with the Communist government to gain approval for the game.Doug Creutz, who is an analyst fo... |
23 November 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Here we are having a first look at the new Men of War: Assault Squad Beta, which has just been released by Digitalmindsoft. Although they are still in the process of tweaking the game here and there, the online multiplayer mode seems to be more than operational as you will see from our own gameplay footage. With ... |
18 November 2010
05:18 GMT |
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A report from TorrentFreak cites, amongst other statistics, the fact that the torrent file for the real time strategy Starcraft 2: The Wings of Liberty has been downloaded more than 2.3 million times since the game has been released in July of this year, leading to a total of 15.77 Petabytes of data downloaded.This m... |
17 November 2010
17:51 GMT |
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At the recent BlizzCon event the developers at Blizzard have talked about Heart of the Swarm, the next installment in the Starcraft 2 trilogy, saying that players will not get their eager hands on it before the end of next year but also suggesting that the new game might answer some of the questions which have been l... |
25 October 2010
18:01 GMT |
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The developers at Relic have officially confirmed that the third playable race in the upcoming Retribution expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II will be the dreaded Tyranids, the alien menace which threatens to destroy all sentient life in the known universe.The biological warriors, who rely on both close qu... |
19 October 2010
05:13 GMT |
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Lionheart: King's Cruade is a real time strategy title developed by Neocore Games and published by Paradox Interactive, allowing gamers to take on the role of the famous English crusader as he aims to conquer the Holy Land and beat back the Saracens or take the opposing side and push the Cruaders into the sea.Th... |
8 October 2010
16:41 GMT |
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A executive at developer Blizzard has stated that the next chapter in the Starcraft 2 saga will not come earlier than 18 months from now, justifying the decision of his company not too talk about the Heart of the Swarm episode too much at the upcoming BlizzCon event.Speaking at the GDC Online conference in Texas Crai... |
8 October 2010
03:48 GMT |
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Zynga, the well known social video game developer, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Bonfire Studios, which is based in Dallas and is lead by developers who have previously worked for real time strategy developer Ensemble Studios, which was closed down last year.The founders of the company are Da... |
8 October 2010
03:34 GMT |
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This week I've been partly enjoying and partly hating R.U.S.E., the real time strategy game based in World War II created by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft, for reasons which are more thoroughly described in my review.One of the undeniable strong points of the R.U.S.E. experience has been the way it mana... |
18 September 2010
08:31 GMT |
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R.U.S.E. is a World War II real time strategy title developed by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft which aims to shake up the reliable formula of Allies versus Axis by introducing ruses, special powers that can alter the way the battlefield is laid out and offer an advantage to the one who plays them.I quite lik... |
17 September 2010
18:31 GMT |
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R.U.S.E. is a World War II real time strategy title developed by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft which aims to shake up the reliable formula of Allies versus Axis by introducing ruses, special powers that can alter the way the battlefield is laid out and offer an advantage to the one who plays them.I have alre... |
16 September 2010
18:21 GMT |
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R.U.S.E. is a World War II real time strategy title developed by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft which aims to shake up the reliable formula of Allies versus Axis by introducing ruses, special powers that can alter the way the battlefield is laid out and offer an advantage to the one who plays them.R.U.S.E. se... |
14 September 2010
18:31 GMT |
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R.U.S.E. is a real time strategy title developed by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft that aims to portray the familiar (to gamers) battlefields of World War II, allowing players to mix things up by using a variety of ruses that change the familiar combat patterns.I have enjoyed R.U.S.E. when it was in open beta... |
10 September 2010
17:41 GMT |
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A recent interview with Rob Pardo, executive vice president of game design at Blizzard Entertainment, revealed that StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm's development is full steam ahead, with the Wings of Liberty successful launch. Speaking to MTV, via VG47, Pardo said that, “Now that we’ve shipped [Win... |
24 August 2010
08:01 GMT |
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Yesterday, Blizzard released information about the sales performance of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty in the first two days of availability. While initial estimates were stating that there were 1.8 million copies sold in Europe and the two Americas alone on day one, Blizzard's data showed that StarCraft II sold... |
4 August 2010
08:01 GMT |
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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty is without question the biggest video game launch of the moment and after getting to grips with both the single player and the multiplayer element of the title some players are now looking to Blizzard, the developers of the real time strategy title, to talk about the enhancements that th... |
3 August 2010
06:16 GMT |
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Starcraft is back and it's as better as it was ten years. The overall world of real time strategy might have morphed, taking on a more tactical and role playing shift in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 and a previously lost grandeur in Supreme Commander 2. But Starcraft 2 is not a game that innovation lovers wil... |
30 July 2010
05:45 GMT |
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Creative Assembly has released a new trailer for its next installment in the Total War franchise, Shogun 2: Total War. This new footage is meant to show off the developer's latest graphic engine, as it acts like cinematic trailer, but it was achieved in using the in-game visuals. If the game does look like this ... |
29 July 2010
15:51 GMT |
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty may have just achieved the most successful game launch of the year, becoming the fastest-selling title of 2010. An estimate states that 1.8 million copies were sold on the first day in the Americas and Europe, including both digital and physical sales. This figure does not include playe... |
29 July 2010
08:01 GMT |
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Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is set to launch tomorrow and a lot of people are wondering whether the new game set in the Blizzard created universe will manage to be as successful as its predecessor. And the launch is one occasion for video games to break into the mainstream media, with the Wall Street Journal, a we... |
26 July 2010
06:12 GMT |
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Blizzard has made the install client available for download to the customers that purchased or will purchase StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty to have it ready for the much awaited launch of the strategy game on the 27th of July 2010. This is only for those who bought a digital copy of Blizzard's latest outing, not... |
16 July 2010
04:57 GMT |
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Ubisoft has announced that R.U.S.E., the real time strategy game that is being developed by Eugen Systems, will be getting a free “preview” weekend through the digital distribution platform Steam. The video game will be playable starting with 2 PM East Standard Time on Friday, July 15 and all those who ar... |
14 July 2010
18:01 GMT |
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