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Paradox Interactive has launched the first expansion for Elven Legacy. Set to be one out of a set of three, Elven Legacy: Ranger is available as a downloadable content only, as the other two expansions will probably be as well. The DLC brings two new heroes, 16 new campaign missions, new artifacts and spells and new ... |
22 October 2009
05:28 GMT |
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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 |
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Staying in the weight-loss game can be quite a tricky and, at times, downright difficult thing to do, if efficient strategies are not employed. However, this may be something that not all of us are aware of, which is why Men’s Health came up with the idea of gathering advice from the best experts on the ten mos... |
8 September 2009
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Dell announced improved financial results for 2009's second-quarter. Revenue, operating income, product shipment, gross margin and earnings were all above the first quarter's levels, and the company continues to reduce operating expenses. As Brian Gladden, Dell’s chief financial officer, stated, &ldqu... |
29 August 2009
07:51 GMT |
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Strategy games are quite numerous these days, but only some of them go on and achieve critical and fan acclaim. One such franchise is Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer, which has given birth to many separate universes like Red Alert or Generals. But the most iconic one is without a doubt Tiberium, which ... |
24 July 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Team17 Software Ltd. has released iPhone and iPod touch versions of Worms, one of the world's best known strategy video games. The title is touted as being the first mobile Worms game developed at Team17’s studio “for ultimate authenticity.” “Bringing a zany mix of iconic, crazy weapons a... |
16 July 2009
06:57 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Rondo of Swords, or as it is known in Japan, Rondo of Deception, is a role playing game with strategy elements developed by Success and published by Atlus for Nintendo's hugely successful DS handheld console. Released in Japan on August 9, 2007 and in North America on April 15 the following year, the game went o... |
5 May 2009
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Rondo of Swords, or as it is known in Japan, Rondo of Deception, is a role playing game with strategy elements developed by Success and published by Atlus for Nintendo's hugely successful DS handheld console. Released in Japan on August 9, 2007 and in North America on April 15 the following year, the game went o... |
4 May 2009
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Rondo of Swords, or as it is known in Japan, Rondo of Deception, is a role playing game with strategy elements developed by Success and published by Atlus for Nintendo's hugely successful DS handheld console. Released in Japan on August 9, 2007 and in North America on April 15 the following year, the game went o... |
30 April 2009
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Rondo of Swords, or as it is known in Japan, Rondo of Deception, is a role playing game with strategy elements developed by Success and published by Atlus for Nintendo's hugely successful DS handheld console. Released in Japan on August 9, 2007 and in North America on April 15 the following year, the game went o... |
29 April 2009
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Halo Wars was one of the most anticipated Xbox 360 titles at the beginning of the year, largely because it was the first new take on the Halo universe, setting it in a Real Time Strategy world, but also because it was the last project for veteran developer Ensemble Studios. Now, after the title has become the best-s... |
23 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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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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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week. These past 7 days have been really hectic in terms of gaming, as a lot of companies have brought forth details about their upcoming games and, as usual, various market research firms, like the NPD Group, have shown the hardware and software charts. Without ... |
21 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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Strategy titles have had a bad reputation lately, as they cater to a niche audience, as opposed to first-person shooters, which are targeted to a broader segment of the public. This is a very sad thing, but, thanks to the newer titles, its seems that Real Time Strategy (RTS) games are beginning to become as popular a... |
9 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
16:51 GMT |
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The Halo franchise is one of the most popular ones to date, despite the fact that it hasn't been out for a very long time, like other iconic series as Mario or Zelda. That hasn't stopped a lot of people from eagerly anticipating anything remotely connected to the futuristic shooters set in the Halo universe... |
28 January 2009
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All grand strategy players in the world became a bit worried when, in December, Creative Assembly announced that it would delay the release of Empire: Total War to March, the game being expected to arrive in February. Games in the Total War series have a nasty history of shipping with bugs (although they are usually ... |
28 January 2009
04:19 GMT |
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The Halo universe is one of the most popular and best-selling franchises in Microsoft's portfolio. It made the first Xbox a pretty successful console but pushed the Xbox 360 to new heights when the third iteration in the shooter series appeared, a game that is still being played quite heavily on the Xbox Live on... |
16 January 2009
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Some people watching the videogames industry say that 2008 was not a great year, certainly not on par with 2007 and its late year releases of Portal, BioShock and Call of Duty: Modern War. And to some, 2009 seems even bleaker, with less than usual high profile titles announced and with an outlook threatened by the wo... |
9 January 2009
18:21 GMT |
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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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SEGA, the publisher, and Creative Assembly, the developer, say that Empire: Total War will not be released on the initially announced date of February 3, 2009. Due to unknown reasons, the strategy title has been pushed back at least a month to sometime in March 2009. The delay will probably be exactly one month but t... |
29 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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Blizzard Entertainment has released an update for Mac users and fans of the world's most popular RTS title, StarCraft. The update brings StarCraft to version 1.16 on Mac, and includes new / changed features, bug fixes, as well as exploit fixes. Particularly, feature changes include: in-game chat is now saved in ... |
28 November 2008
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Starcraft II is among the most expected titles coming next year, partly because it is the sequel to one of the most successful RTS (Real Time Strategy) titles out there, Starcraft, which is still played on a worldwide level.We recently learned that, because of the huge storylines this title would include, t... |
31 October 2008
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Microsoft has decided to close down Ensemble Studios and, although this piece of news is a bit old now, we have just received an official statement from Bruce Shelley, the boss of Ensemble, via the studio's blog. Even if a lot of people frowned upon Microsoft's decision of closing the studio that was respon... |
23 September 2008
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Matrix Games, the company that apparently has no other goal than to develop super hardcore strategy games, has just announced that, together with IQ Software, it released the first official update for World War II: Road to Victory, bringing the game to the 1.201 version and adding a bunch of new features, as well as ... |
22 August 2008
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Every now and then, Gameinvest, the Portuguese game developer, manages to come up with a really interesting game concept that could, given a big enough financial investment, become a true hit. However, that financial investment usually does not arrive to the developers, so the games remain in the more underground are... |
20 August 2008
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Good news for strategy and city building sim fans! Imperium Romanum, one of the most appreciated titles of its kind, will receive a sequel in March 2009, exclusively for the PC systems. With improved visuals and game mechanics, this new title from Kalypso will offer everybody a chance to write a bit of Roman history ... |
18 August 2008
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Fans of the strategy genre or the Strategic Command franchise will be delighted to hear that Battlefront and Fury Software have just announced a brand new title in the series, Pacific Theater. The game will offer the same complexity we were used to, without requiring a previous installation of any other product, whic... |
15 August 2008
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Turn-based strategies are not exactly best sellers, but well-done ones definitely manage to skyrocket and make a handful of people very happy. Such is probably the case with Elven Legacy, a TBS game under development at 1C:Ino-Co, set for release sometime in the first quarter of 2009 for PC systems.Elven Legacy promi... |
14 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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It's been a while since we last heard about the development of a game for the PlayStation Portable, so it was time somebody did something on that matter. The company that decided to solve all the problems is Deep Silver and they announced Mytran Wars, a real time strategy developed by Budapest-based Stormregion ... |
14 August 2008
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If you are a fan of turn based science fiction trading games, you will be really pleased to find out that Niels Bauer Games has just released Smugglers 4, which promises to solve some of the most annoying problems brought by similar titles. And they seem to be pretty sure their game is really a great one, since they&... |
12 August 2008
14:26 GMT |
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AGEOD, a company focusing on the development of hardcore strategy games, seems to be ready to take over the world with some quality titles since, following the announcement of Birth of America II, it went public with the development of World War One, a historically accurate TBS (turn based strategy) game for PC only.... |
8 August 2008
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Fans of the RTS genre were pleased with the first Theatre of War game developed by 1C Company, especially because the game brought an unprecedented detail level to the entire game mechanics. It seems only natural to hear now that the company is working on a new title in the series, one that will take the action back ... |
7 August 2008
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Matrix Games' catalog is slowly turning into the biggest, most complete game inventory for the most hardcore fans of them all. The list of available products keeps growing and we are really happy to see that until now they have never changed their path and only kept to true quality titles. The latest game added ... |
6 August 2008
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European fans should be really excited since Koei has just announced that the highly anticipated PC game Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI will be released on the 5th of September this year. The game combines political maneuvering with city building and tactical warfare, offering a truly unique experience to players o... |
5 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Although the turn based strategy genre has never been too popular, it has its hardcore fans and developers who are striving to create the ultimate, perfect experience. Ascaron is the company that has just joined the ranks and it will try to revolutionize the genre with Birth of America II: Wars in America 1750-1815, ... |
30 July 2008
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There are many people who prefer to lose a few hours trying to find out the best strategy to attack a bridge in a hexagonal turn based strategy game. There are others who would do nothing but keep their red plumber jumping on the screen, collecting stars and eating mushrooms. The title we're talking about now is... |
23 July 2008
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You are probably tired of getting the same WWII games over and over again, but the developers certainly enjoy producing such titles. For example, Matrix Games will probably create one for every major battle in the war, then spin offs from them and, eventually, remakes. The good thing about the company, though, is tha... |
21 July 2008
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If you are a fan of innovative, truly unique real time strategy games, it means that you have already played the first Perimeter game developed by KDV and enjoyed its terraforming, customization and concept. Unfortunately, if you have played the game, you already know that, despite the great idea behind the product, ... |
11 July 2008
02:48 GMT |
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Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath has just got patched to version 1.01 and, strangely, Electronic Arts feels like celebrating. I call this strange because, in my humble opinion, no game should require patching and, if it does, there would be no reason for celebrations to be held, since it is only common sense to... |
10 July 2008
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Four years ago, the fans of the real time strategy genre first enjoyed the Perimeter universe and were left asking for more. Developers KD Vision Games have decided it is the right time to deliver a sequel and some episodic content, since that's the trend today. But we don't mind because Perimeter 2: New Ea... |
7 July 2008
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If you were starting to have the feeling that turn based strategy games need to be reinvigorated somehow, developer Ndoors Interactive might have the answer: Atlantica, a MMOG that promises to bring back to life the ancient legend of Atlantis, launches the closed beta in July (which means that most of us won't g... |
19 June 2008
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If you have ever wanted to know whether you have all it takes to become the supreme ruler, Paradox Interactive is offering you the means to find out the answer when it releases the geopolitical wargame Supreme Ruler 2020. And the game will finally be released for a suggested retail price of $39.99 on the 17th of June... |
27 May 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Every now and then, a company decides it is time to create something new and never seen before and we, gamers, can only be really happy with their decision and everything left for us to do is hope that they will manage to produce a great title that will rise up to the promises. That is the same situation we have with... |
30 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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