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How The Devs Behind The Age Of Mythology Remake Are Bringing It Into The Modern Era
30.8.2024
Releasing September 4, Age of Mythology: Retold is the fourth and final remake of Assemble’s classic early 2000s Age Of… RTS series, following on from the legendary Age of Empires III. Released at a time when strategy games ruled PC gaming, all four games have remained well loved over...
2024’s Best Tactical RPG Is A Steal During PlayStation’s Summer Sale
5.8.2024
With the seemingly endless deluge of amazing game releases in 2023, many assumed that 2024 would pale in comparison. Now it’s August and we can confidently say that has not been the case. It seems like good games just keep releasing and overshadowing one another, making it hard to even remember...
Unicorn Overlord: The Kotaku Review
7.3.2024
There is a satisfaction that comes from being told you are too weak to face a challenge and then quickly handing your enemy their defeat on a silver platter regardless. Being the David to your enemy’s Goliath and leveraging not just physical but strategic power to overcome the odds is a thrill that...
Everything We Know About Vanillaware’s Epic RPG Unicorn Overlord
18.1.2024
When Japanese developers Vanillaware announce they’re releasing a new game, you sit up and take notice. The team, started in 2002 by Capcom and Atlus vet George Kamitani, most recently brought us 2020’s adored 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, and soon returns with Unicorn Overlord, due out March 2024....
9 PC Games You Need To Play During Steam’s Latest Strategy Fest Sale
29.8.2023
Steam’s latest sale event is its Strategy Fest which is offering discounts on some of the best strategic PC games around. If you need a meaty campaign full of tactics to devise and menus to tinker with, look no further than these excellent PC games.Read more
I Wish I Loved This Final Fantasy Tactics-Inspired SRPG 7 Years In The Making
31.7.2023
Final Fantasy Tactics nailed so many things so exquisitely that, despite plenty of sequels, spiritual successors, and fan homages, there’s never been anything quite like it since. Arcadian Atlas is the latest indie strategy RPG to try and channel its greatness into something familiar but new,...
One Year In, Arknights’ Bonkers Gameplay Finally Makes Sense To Me
24.2.2022
When I first started writing about Arknights last year, I had completed three-fourths of its main storyline. For all intents and purposes, I considered myself a bit of an expert of this gacha tower defense game, thinking of it as basically real-time chess with anime catgirls. Many months later,...
Broken Arrow Is Trying The Whole Modern RTS Thing Again
15.12.2021
The RTS genre as we know it, or at least the popular perception of it, is dominated by its most traditional efforts, the kind of base-building-then-rush approach seen in everything from Command & Conquer to StarCraft. That’s not the only way to play an RTS, though.Read more
The Best Strategy Games On PC
24.8.2021
The PC is home to just about every type of video game under the sun, but few are as quintessentially PC as strategy games.Read more
The Half-Life 2 RTS Is Finally "Out" After 13 Years Of Development
23.2.2021
For over a decade now, a group of fans have been working on Lambda Wars, a real-time strategy game set in the Half-Life universe. Originally a Half-Life 2 mod, and later a standalone beta, the thing is now finished, or as finished as a game ever gets these days, anyway.Read more
Real-Time Strategy Game for Mining ‘Crypto Gold’ Launches on WAX
21.9.2019
Blockchain-based decentralized strategy game, Prospectors, will launch on WAX