After almost three after being released Civilization V still has content being released for it. Even after the excellent Brave New World, Firaxis is still finding ways to draw us back in. The first of two planned map packs has already been released, titled "Scrambled Continents". Both map packs take…

Many people have found issue with Total War: Rome II, mainly with how the AI fails to pose much of a challenge. Almost all Total War games have a bumpy start however, and The Creative Assembly always does their best to fix their games as quickly as possible. The released…

A few weeks ago, we were given the chance to play around with the new XCOM expansion, XCOM Enemy Within. While we were there, we had a few questions about what we can expect from the expansion, so we caught up with XCOM: Enemy Within Lead Designer, Ananda Gupta to…

In XCOM: Enemy Unknown humanity martialled itself under one flag, the banner of the XCOM initiative and the protection it provided. While that protective sheildmay have occasionally yielded, unleashing a horror of Greys and Mutons upon the unprepared world, the aliens were pushed back and Earth breathed a sigh of…

Civilization V: Brave New World      Players: 1 - 8 Genre: Turn-Based Strategy Platform: Windows Developer: Firaxis Games After Gods and Kings release last year Civilization V hit its stride. Although the initial release of Civilization V was seen as a downgrade by some fans, Firaxis have been toiling…

Stardock have just announced that they have secured the rights to the classic PC franchise Star Control. They're wasting no time on this one as they are looking to start development on a new game in the series  this year. “We expect the new Star Control to come in the…

  The Last of Us      Players: 4 Genre: Strategy Platform: PSN, XBLA, Windows, Mac Developer: Team 17  The Worms series by Team 17 has been ever present in gaming hive-mind since the original release in 1995. Slowly adding new weapons and mechanics, the series has slowly evolved the simple little creatures…

Skyward Collapse      Players 8 Turn-Based Strategy Windows | Mac Skyward Collapse isn't like many strategy games that immediately spring to mind. Instead of taking one group and dominating the world, Skyward Collapse asks you to take two factions and play them off one another. Akin to playing chess…

Firaxis Games already made a great game when Civilization V was released in 2010, an experience they built upon to make their first expansion "Gods & Kings" which came out Summer last year. Civilization V: Brave New World will hopefully turn this already amazing game, into one of the best…

Endless Space players will see their universe extend massively with the Endless Space: Disharmony expansion pack, which will be released on Steam later today. Developer Amplitude Studios is very pleased to enrich its 4x space strategy universe and give the community a new level of complexity. “I’m very excited to…

It was this time last year Civilization fans got their hands on the first expansion to the 2010 strategy masterpiece. Where Gods & Kings further developed on combat and added spies and religion, Civilization V: Brave New World revamps how culture and deplomacy acts upon the world. Brave New World…

Bohemia Interactive have released a turn-based, close-combat strategy game for NVIDIA Tergra-Powered devices, Arma Tactics THD. Bohemia boasts that Arma Tactics THD takes the best of the strategy genre and goes mobile using the finest assets at their disposal which helped create the critically acclaimed Arma series. They call it…

The first three factions have been revealed for Cyanide’s strategy game, Dogs of War Online. These three factions will be available at the launch of the multiplayer free-to-play game. These three factions are the Lion army, the Wolf army and the Ram army. Each faction offers a different style and…

 Sins of a Solar Empire is a popular stratergy game from Galactic Civilizations creator Stardock. This year the game is getting it's first DLC content titled "Forbidden worlds" to be released on June 5th. Forbidden Worlds adds new planet types, planet specializations, technologies, planetary bounaries and more Steam achievements all…

TeamPixel, the indie team who wanted to buy the rights to the Homeworld IP, have failed to secure the ability to continue the series their way. Having raised $58,644 through kickstarter, $13,675 though Indiegogo and an unknown amount through PayPal, they stood a chance to buy the rights from THQ.…

Maxis is dropping what seems to be a fairly hefty patch for SimCity Monday, April 22nd. Adding "Mayors Mansion" features that allow mayors to drive limos and helicopters, the patch will also be fixing a fair number of issues in the game. Here is a full run-down of the fixes…

SEGA of America, Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd. yesterday announced that customers who pre-order Company of Heroes 2, the eagerly anticipated strategy game from Relic Entertainment, Inc., from participating retailers will receive additional in-game bonus content for free. Eligible customers will get access to a ‘Theatre of War’ mini-campaign when…

Matrix Games are proud to announce that Distant Worlds will be getting a new expansion pack very soon. The highly anticipated third expansion pack, called Distant Worlds: Shadows, adds new gameplay to the Distant Worlds universe and is set in a new era called the Age of Shadows. Planetary civilizations have…

Labeled as a social-strategy game, Hardware is coming from many of the minds behind the well received RTS series Homeworld. While Blackbird Interactive aren't giving away many details, or even any gameplay footage, the talent behind the game should be a good indicator of where the game could go. Well…

Firaxis have been constantly hammering away at Civilization V since its release, making sure all the kinks are worked out, balancing and working on their first expansion "Gods and Kings". Firaxis haven't stopped there though, recently announcing "Civilization V:Brave New World". The expansion intends to expand on the way culture…

Impire is a dungeon master strategy game for PC, only playable on steam from Paradox Interactive and developed by Cyanide Montreal. On first appearances Impire looks like your standard dungeon master game with slightly prettier artwork and design. However, having played the game for a while it actually pleasantly surprises…