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Gratuitous Space Battles gets monster 75% sale, drops to $5
Gratuitous Space Battles, a space battle simulator where you command an armada of spaceships but don’t actively control individual units, just got a huge discount on Steam, dropping the game from $20...
View ArticleFirst details of Starcraft II 1.1 patch announced
With millions of players beating on the decade-in-the-making space RTS StarCraft II, Blizzard was bound to find some exploits that needed patching and some class unbalances that needed some tweaking....
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Learn important professional skills at the University of Florida… by playing...
Look, no one’s going to deny that Blizzard’s popular space RTS Starcraft II has some skills it can teach you. How to zerg rush. How to manage the economy of a group of […]
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Blizzard: Cheat in Starcraft II and we will find you and perma-ban you
Blizzard has long been serious about stamping out cheating in its online games. It has to be: World of Warcraft is a gaming industry in its own right, and Starcraft is so huge […]
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Valve is making Dota 2
After a number of Valve-Dota stories, such as Ice Frog joining Valve and Valve filing a trademark application for the term “Dota”, the news is finally official. Game Informer has reported that Valve […]
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Despite Stacraft’s status as a national sport, Koreans are not playing...
It’s common knowledge that Blizzard‘s extraterrestrial warfare RTS Starcraft is popular in Korea: heck, since the game came out in 1998, it has sparked not only a multi-million dollar local industry,...
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Starcraft II played head-to-head on multitouch displays
The interface of most real-time strategy games is the biggest barrier of entry for new players. Because the game genre requires managing hundreds of units and structures at once, without any way to […]
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Starcraft II gets a proper demo, five months after release
It’s certainly taken a fair bit of time — five months, to be exact — but Blizzard‘s space warfare RTS Starcraft II has finally gotten a proper demo. That’s not to say you […]
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Dota 2 vs League of Legends – An action RTS showdown
I don’t think I will ever forget the hours of my life that I willfully handed to Blizzard when Warcraft 3 came out. In many ways, the game stands out as the pinnacle […]
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EA releases 17-game Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection
The Command & Conquer franchise has long been a staple in the RTS gaming world. Variants of the game have been around for years, constantly trying to find new ways for friends to […]
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Review: Cortex Command tries hard but falls short
Cortex Command was released this month, but I purchased it in November of 2008, almost four years ago. That might seem like a long time to wait, but the indie game has been […]
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Play Command and Conquer in your browser, multiplayer included
Back in the deep dark days of 1995, computer gaming was very different from what we know today. It was slower, blockier, and everything was a pain to install. Still, many gamers of […]
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Battlecode is a competition where AIs fight each other in an RTS
Game design courses that have actual video games listed on their syllabi and classes that teach real-world problem-solving using in-game tactics are cool enough, but MIT has them beat. Course number...
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Epic was developing a Gears of War RTS for Kinect
Regardless of whether you are playing a first or third-person shooter on your games console, motion controls are not the best fit. You want a physical controller in your hands and to be […]
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Games like Clash of Clans: A mobile strategy showdown
Most mobile games are successful because they deliver a quick, fun experience. You can walk away from the game whenever you want, or you can dedicate an entire weekend to getting the highest […]
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Rymdkapsel is minimalistic space bliss, here are some tips to succeed
Rymdkapsel, a minimalist space base-building RTS recently released on iOS, Android, and the PlayStation Vita. If you're into any of those combination of things, playing Rymdkapsel will be a bright part...
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Civilization finally becomes a true MMO with Civilization Online
At long last, the Civilization series will become an MMO -- not like that failed Facebook iteration, Civ World, but a true MMO. An interview with the game's executive producer sheds light on what the...
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Science says playing StarCraft makes you smarter, so stop wasting your time...
A new study suggests that you have been wasting your time getting a “proper” education, doing homework, and taking tests, when you should’ve been playing real-time strategy games instead. Researchers...
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Universum: War Front is a game you won’t believe was created by one man
Take a quick look at the gallery of images above, and then take the time to watch the Kickstarter video below. I think you’ll agree that as a game, Universum: War Front looks […]
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Awesome mod lets you play the final Mass Effect 3 Reaper space battle
There was plenty of anger over the last few minutes of Mass Effect 3, but no one can deny that massive space battle with the Reapers was a sight to behold. Of course, […]
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