Tag Archives: Strategy

You know how PSN games have that little trailer in the XMB? I still find myself lingering over the icon for Age of Booty, just to hear that wonderful, piratey music loop. I love it. But I almost didn’t love the game. Oh, sure, I wanted it to be great–after …

Electronic Arts has shuttered the studio behind the SpellForce series and the browser-based Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances, according to GamesIndustry International sources. The publisher didn’t comment on the fate of EA Phenomic specifically, but did acknowledge some layoffs in a statement. “As part of EA’s realignment in recent weeks, …

After the crazy number of releases during the last week of June, as well as the insanity of E3, the game’s industry seems to be taking a short break before things heat up again in the fall. But even though July’s new release slate doesn’t look all that impressive at …

Summer is on our doorsteps, which means it’s time to shutter the windows and lock ourselves in our living rooms to play some of the hottest new releases of the season. Need a few suggestions? Here’s a rundown of the adventures, infections, battles, and mind-trips heading to a console and …

If Vikings are attacking your kingdom, what else can you do but strap on a sheep to a catapult and send it flying their way? Part Angry Birds, part real-time strategy game, CastleStorm lets you take control of a ballista and an army of soldiers to destroy your enemy’s castle …

The only thing more soul crushing than losing all your best soldiers in XCOM: Enemy Unknown (which we praised in our review), is when all of the nations you’ve sworn to protect go into panic mode and abandon the project all together. The result? The XCOM organization, starved for resources, …

By this point, it’s beginning to feel like there are as many Worms games as there are actual worms in existence. In the seventeen years since developer Team17 made people realize that there’s a sizable market out there for homicidal invertebrates, almost twenty entries in the series have been released. …

Gotta catch ’em all! Its been more than 15 years since Pokmon took Japans islands by storm, and since then the numerous species of portable critters have become beloved across the globe. The RPG is a monster of its own, laden with copious product tie-ins and spin-offs. Pokmon Black/White 2 …

TheMajor League Gaming StarCraft 2 Summer Arena (opens in new tab)wrapped up this weekend with a hefty $10,000 purse going to Team Liquid’sYoon “TaeJa” Young Suh, a South Korean Terran player who took down team SlayerS’ Protoss player Alicia in convincing fashion, winning 4 out of 6 games. The finals …

“Epic” feels too inadequate a word to describe the massive space battles that pulse like lifeblood through the heart of Sins of a Solar Empire. Panning the camera around for an intimate view of the mayhem yields breathtaking scenes of destruction as huge fleets of lumbering star cruisers clash amidst …