Tag Archives: Strategy

If you want to get into competitive StarCraft II, just roll through single-player so you can learn up real quick, right? Ahahahahahaha. No. Blizzard is looking to undo at least a few of those “ha’s” by adding a training mode to StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. Polygon reports the …

The 1988 3D classic Carrier Command is returning in a current-gen action strategy outing and we’ve seen a new, almost-finished version running on Xbox 360. As we detailed in our last preview (opens in new tab), Bohemia Interactive’s new take on the seminal strategy game can be played like a …

Alone they would be the tiny, lonely booths in the dark corners of the convention hall that nobody visited. However, with their powers combined they form the PAX Indie Megabooth, a collaboration between thirty independent developers working toward the cause of increasing their visibility, and not getting drowned out behind …

Reports are circulating today that say thatPlants vs Zombies (opens in new tab)creator George Fan may have been among the 50 or so PopCap employees who were fired in yesterday’s layoffs. The rumor began with a report at Gamasutra (opens in new tab) which cited a PR representative who confirmed …

Have you ever leaned back in your chair at a laser light show, the music swelling as the Crab Nebula forms above you and thought, “man, if only I could play a video game on this thing?” Well, Amplitude Studios has a game for you. Endless Space (opens in new …

StarCraft II: Heart of Swarm still doesn’t have a release date and neither does its “sometime in summer” beta, but Blizzard was eager to demo the expansion’s new multiplayer units in Anaheim, CA. There, thousands of MLG players were able to build and take command of these new units, while …

In anticipation of the upcoming Gods and Kings expansion pack, 2K Games has announced that they’ll be holding a Civilization V sale on Steam, along with a promotion that will make Civ V completely free for just this weekend. Until the end of the weekend, Civilization V is 75% off …

We already reported that Nintendo/Miyamoto confirm new Mario game for E3 reveal (opens in new tab), but it turns out Mario wasn’t the only new game that Miyamoto said would be shown at E3 this year. Now, normally we’d take any story sourced as ‘Google Translate’ as a pinch of …

Playing Armored Core V, the latest in From Software’s cultish series of rock ‘em, sock ‘em giant AC (mecha) simulators, was something of an emotional journey. After the dust cleared, our therapist (a former Nintendo gameplay counselor, now in private practice) helped us identify four distinct phases: confusion, excitement, disillusionment, …

When 2K Games revealed they were rebooting XCOM, fans of the classic tactical strategy title rejoiced…until the other shoe dropped. Developed by BioShock 2-maker 2K Marin, it turned out the game was actually a story-driven FPS sharing little with the turn-based title that spawned it. But then the publisher pulled …