Category Archives: Strategy

Major League Gaming has backed out of an agreement to host Blizzard’s North American StarCraft 2 World Championship Series, amid talk of a lack of support from the developer.

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SEGA and Relic have extended the Company of Heroes 2 beta to June 23. The extension will add multiplayer maps into the rotation as well as double XP this weekend in auto match multiplayer modes, reports Joystiq. All general experience will transfer over to the game when it launches June 25. Players will need to purchase the game within 60 days of launch to keep their experience.

World of Tanks Update 8.6 is now available in Europe and will roll out to the rest of the world later this month. Southeast Asia will see the update go live on June 20, while American and South Korean players will get the update on June 25 and July 4, respectively. The latest update brings further changes and balance to the in-game economy, as well as adds new SPGs to Tier X. Along with the new artillery units, Update 8.6 also adds a new premium British tank, the A33 Excelsior, as well as a new battle arena-Sacred Valley, based on a Korean setting. A video is below.

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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified publisher 2K Games has confirmed that the title’s first DLC pack is coming exclusively to Xbox 360 if you pre-order the game. We’ve also got a new ‘Battle Focus’ trailer that shows the game’s strategic play at work.

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Gunpoint developer Tom Francis has quit his job because he suddenly has an enormous pile of money and plenty of ideas of what to do with it.

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Loading Studios has released an early demo of its in-development, first-person tower defence effort, Space Nomads. You can download the demo from the game’s newly launched Indiegogo campaign, which is after CAD $60,000. Be aware that it is probably far from representative of the finished product, but if it takes your fancy the indie is offering a number of incentives to help out with the Linux, Mac and PC title.

Arcen Games is celebrating the fourth anniversay of its cult classic AI War: Fleet Command with an all-new DLC expansion and a special bundle edition with all the content release to date.

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Nintendo’s very first free-to-play title will be a multiplayer affair based on Steel Diver, the 3DS submarine sim.

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17-BIT has announced Skulls of the Shogun for non-Windows 8 users called Skulls of the Shogun: Bone-A-Fide Edition. It will be released on Steam and includes all the content from the original, along with a four-chapter episode taking place after the original’s ending. It also comes a new character, the Tanuki, which uses taunts and teleportation skills. The game will release on Steam in July and it is now available for pre-order for $11.99. After the game launches it will run you $14.99.

Amplitude Studios has entered the final stage of development for Disharmony, the first official expansion to Endless Space. To celebrate, the developer has released some screenshots for the content.

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Space Hulk developer Full Control is bringing its PC, Mac and iOS strategy game to Rezzed 2013 this weekend. The indie and PC gaming expo will give gamers a chance to play the title’s alpha build and meet with the team behind it. We’ve got two new screens of the Warhammer 40K adaptation here.

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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified has strategy fans in a cold sweat over whether or not 2K Marin can deliver a tactical experience. VG247′s Dave Cook talks with the studio to get some clear answers.

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Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014 comes with sealed play mode, allowing players to craft their own deck from random booster packs and use it to fight against their opponent. It’s the first time sealed play has appeared in the series.

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Crysis developer Crytek seems set to make another foray onto iOS with a tactics title called The Collectibles.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown has been dated for an iOS release on June 20. It’ll cost $20 in the States, £13.99 in the UK & 17.99 Euros across Europe, and while that’s a lot of money bear in mind the game is almost a direct port of the console and PC game that launched last year.

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As we all know, ancient Rome had more than its share of political infighting, or backstabbing, if you will. Famously, between 235 and 284 AD there were 21 ‘official’ emperors, of whom all but one died of unnatural causes.

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Civilization 5: Brave New World has a new video available from E3, which focuses diplomacy which is apparently a big deal in the game as in life. I’d fail miserably and just launch an all out war with my neighbors. This is why I don’t play strategy games: I am horrible at them. Anyway, watch the trailer below. Brave New World is expected in North America on July 9 and elsewhere on July 12.

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SEGA has released the Company of Heroes 2 demo on show at E3 through Steam.

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As promised, Planetary Annihilation has opened itself to Steam Early Access – but at what cost? Actually, I’ll just tell you what cost: $90.

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This week’s Humble Bundle sale stars 11 bit Studios, developer of Anomaly Warzone Earth, which also happens to be the headline game. The DRM-free, cross-platform, pay-what-you-want package also includes Anomaly Warzone Earth: Mobile Campaign, Sleepwalker’s Journey, Funky Smugglers and – for those who pay more than average – a bonus copy of Anomaly Korea and a pile of digital content. As ever, you decide where you money goes – charities, indie devs, the organisers or a split between all three.