Tag Archives: Strategy

(opens in new tab) A price drophas been announcedfor two of the best games in the Xbox Live Arcade library today, as Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and Toy Soldiers get sliced 33% to 800 MSP or $10. The drop comes right in the middle of Microsoft’s “Arcade Next” program which …

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When the (so far) Japanese-only Pokemon + Nobunaga’s Ambition was announced (opens in new tab) we were initially confused by the new Pokemon game before us. Not only was it a strategy RPG teaming pocket monsters with Japanese history, it was coming to the nearly dead DS. Now we know …

Total War developer The Creative Assembly has announced a new expansion for Shogun: Total War 2, entitled Fall of the Samurai. Containing enough new content to warrant a standalone release, the title documents the clash between the Shogunate and a Japanese Imperial throne backed by Western military tactics and technology. …

Blizzard Entertainment boss Mike Morhaime has been named the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Foundation’s 2011 Champion Honoree. The award recognizes Morhaime and Blizzard’s ongoing fundraising efforts for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for sick children. That’s good for at least few thousand …

Apparently Riot’s beta testing went better than expected – the developer announced today that the Dominion game mode and Crystal Scar map are now completely, totally available, with no more restrictions or limited-time windows to worry about. This new game mode is easily the largest update to League of Legends …

Above: Without this parental loan, we wouldn’t have World of Warcraft, Diablo, or StarCraft! The note sits in a place of prominence in front of a wall of game awards and its glass case has a plus 10 resistance to camera flash We already shared a bunch ofphotosof the Blizzard …

The console version of the very well-received RPG, which came out for PC (opens in new tab) back in May, has been pushed back to Q1 of 2012. The official story is vague. CEO Adam Kicinski in a press release he had this to say: “The extra time will allow …

“There are two sides to me today,” Shigeru Miyamoto told attendants to Nintendo’s E3 roundtable: “The corporate side that wants to follow the precedent we set for E3 of not announcing any titles, and the creative side of me.” That second side prevailed, however, and the producer couldn’t resist namedropping …