Strategy

Mobile

Little Empire Is A Massively Multiplayer Backstabbing Simulator

1:30AM January 18, 2012 | Mike Fahey

Camel Games’ high-polished “massively multiplayer online” empire building game Little Empires neatly demonstrates why we should never open ourselves up to the inevitable pain that friendship brings. Pretty heavy for a game with cartoon elves, right? More »


Nintendo

Paper-Rock-Scissors Tactics Spring To Life In Fire Emblem 3DS

7:00AM December 29, 2011 | Mike Fahey

This spring in Japan the swords, axes, and spears of Fire Emblem spring forth from the 3DS screen to pierce your eyeballs with varying degrees of severity depending on which sort of weapon you’re holding at the time. Check out the live stream of the game from the Nintendo Direct presser. More »


PC

League Of Legends Players Will Understand These T-Shirts

8:20AM December 22, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Gamer clothing creators Jinx have teamed up with Riot Games competitive PC gaming sensation League of Legends to create a set of shirts that I do not understand. Do you? More »


PC

Limbs And Heads Fly Free In Total War: Shogun 2′s Rating-Changing Blood Pack

10:20AM December 1, 2011 | Mike Fahey

While Total War: Shogun 2 does an excellent job of depicting the titanic clash between two warring factions, it’s always been missing a little something to make the experience complete: Majestic arcs of spurting crimson lifeblood, and the odd severed head. All this and more can be yours for $US1.59. More »


PC

Free Of Impulse, Stardock Visits The Sins Of A Solar Empire On Steam

7:20AM November 17, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Now that they’ve offloaded that pesky digital distribution platform, Stardock is free to spread its catalogue to greener pastures, starting with today’s release of Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity on Steam. More »


PC

End Of Nations Won’t Release Until 2012

6:00AM September 26, 2011 | Owen Good

Though no official release date had been given for the free-to-play MMORTS End of Nations, 2011 had not been ruled out for the game’s launch. Developer Trion took that off the table today at the Eurogamer Expo, saying the game will in fact arrive in 2012 and not sooner. More »


PC

Water, Water Everywhere, So Let’s Go Fight A War

8:30PM July 29, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

If you’ve ever wanted to play a video game based on Kevin Costner’s Waterworld, only without Kevin Costner being anywhere near it, you should check out upcoming strategy title Oil Rush. More »


Mobile

How A Wish And A Nine-Year-Old Led To A Great Game

9:30AM July 22, 2011 | Max Abrams

Tanks and Hovercrafts rage against the evil purple Flamions. Shots are fired on both sides as the player attempts to subdue the oncoming hoard of enemies. Sounds like a fun game, if not a little common in it’s setting. But Allied Star Police, and how it came into being, is anything but typical. More »


News

Evony Awarded $US300K From Hacker Who Probably Can’t Pay It

8:41AM April 2, 2011 | Owen Good

That Evony hacker who showed up to federal court in sweat pants will likely be wearing them a lot longer – if not a barrel. A judge rather quickly ruled against him, finding that selling auto-playing bots and game maps violated Evony’s copyrights, and awarded the game’s owners $US300,000. More »


PC

Sins Of A Solar Empire Spurs A Rebellious Expansion

7:30AM March 2, 2011 | Mike Fahey

The intergalactic war of Ironclad Games’ real-time strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire has gone on too long, prompting the game’s third expansion, Rebellion, packed with new tech and ships capable of destroying entire fleets all by their lonesome. More »