Dark Reign Redux, a remake of 1997’s Dark Reign: The Future of War, a real-time strategy game for PC, was just published on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel yesterday, without Activision so much as stapling a flyer to a telephone pole for its marketing.
Dark Reign Redux costs $US5 (400 Microsoft Points) and was developed by Magnetar Games, which is also handling a browser-based version. This version supports two to eight players, either online or through system link. Everything else appears to be a faithful port of the original game. Armless Octopus assures us that it runs at 1024×768 resolution and has widescreen support, so it’s not totally kicking it old-school.
This isn’t Activision’s only foray into indie territory, of course. It also runs the Activision Independent Games Competition, whose submission period just closed.
Activision Clandestinely Releases Dark Reign Redux on Xbox Live Indie Games [Armless Octopus]
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