Real-Time Strategy Games

E3 2017: Frostpunk Preview
E3 2017: Frostpunk Preview
E3 2017: Frostpunk Preview
11 Bit Studios caught the attention of the gaming masses a few years ago with the release of This War of Mine. The survival sim tasked players with setting up shop in a war-torn Sarajevo, trying to stay alive as long as possible and managing whatever it took to do so. The complexities and moral quandaries raised by This War of Mine are what helped set the game apart from a deluge of survival sims, and its those same societal challenges that 11 Bit hopes will aid its upcoming city-management sim Frostpunk stand out from the competition.
10 Best Tom Clancy Video Games
10 Best Tom Clancy Video Games
10 Best Tom Clancy Video Games
Clancy had a hand in creating several prolific video game series that explore controversial and intense topics regarding the sociopolitical tensions of today and tomorrow. These are the 10 Best Tom Clancy Video Games.
Crush Your Enemies Review
Crush Your Enemies Review
Crush Your Enemies Review
I’ve always been fascinated by strategy games. I’ve never been particularly good at them, enough to get by, but I’ve enjoyed my time with older titles like Command and Conquer, Starcraft, and Age of Empires II. Crush Your Enemies claims to harken back to the time when these games were more popular but misses the mark on many levels. There’s no base building, no expansive maps, and no real strategy from what I can see. In fact, it’s more of a barbarian themed puzzle game.
The History of Blizzard: Vikings, Crafts, and One Mad Gorilla
The History of Blizzard: Vikings, Crafts, and One Mad Gorilla
The History of Blizzard: Vikings, Crafts, and One Mad Gorilla
Blizzard's name is an aptly-chosen one; this titanic game company is famous for its glacial development pace. New Blizzard projects usually have lengthy gaps between them, with release dates rarely getting mentioned until the product is finished and ready to ship. While it can be frustrating for fans to have to wait interminably long, this relaxed speed brings with it a creative atmosphere and quality games— as Shigeru Miyamoto so famously said, "A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever." Overwatch marks the newest entry in the Blizzard library (and their first all-new intellectual property in over a decade), so let's take a moment to go back through the brightest points in the history of these legendary game-makers to better understand why their newest game garners such eager anticipation.
10 Best XCOM 2 Mods
10 Best XCOM 2 Mods
10 Best XCOM 2 Mods
Interested in boosting your squad with new perks or even bringing enemy units into your ranks? You’ve come to the right place. Want to change way the world in XCOM 2 works or even add to the battlefield? You get the idea. Back up your save files and ready up some new campaigns. These are the best mods out there for XCOM 2.
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void Review
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void Review
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void Review
What began in 1998 as a space-themed variant on the sword-and-sorcery of Warcraft has become a gaming phenomenon, with a successful sequel and more expansion packs and gaming tournaments than you can shake a pylon at. Now, Legacy of the Void, the final expansion pack to Starcraft II, closes out the story which began nearly two decades ago, forcing players to push their actions-per-minute to the brink if they want to save the universe from the looming threat annihilating everything in its path (and pwn every Zerg-rushing noob this side of Korhal).
10 Best Real-Time Strategy Games
10 Best Real-Time Strategy Games
10 Best Real-Time Strategy Games
The term real-time strategy may have spawn from Dune II, but this genre of games has multiplied and evolved to become a big cornerstone of the video game industry, especially when it comes to PC gaming. RTS games take a lot of previous stategy game tropes and mechanics, focusing on unit, building and resource management, usually during times of warfare. For most games of the genre, you generally have to generate resources (usually by having a unit farm them somehow), use those resources to create buildings and have the buildings spawn additional units. Units usually consist of different builder/farmer and combat-oriented types. Proper time management and intuitive use of your forces and capabilities are a must as you continuously try upgrading and increasing your bases and forces while putting pressure on the enemies, who are trying to do the same thing.
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide Review
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide Review
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide Review
It’s not often that I stare at a game’s menu screen for a few moments just because it looks so good. That’s exactly what I caught myself doing the first time I loaded up Civilization: Beyond Earth with the Rising Tide expansion installed. The way light reflected off the rippling waves of the vast ocean was beautiful and soothing; what I didn’t know from those first few moments was how that body of water would change Beyond Earth for the better.

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