Slitherine has really established itself as the premier developer/ publisher of serious strategy games on iPad. It is releasing games at a rapid rate, and from titles such as Pike & Shot and Battle Academy 2 through to the likes of Commander: The Great War and Panzer Corps, the quality…
Read MoreI really didn’t know what to expect going into War of the Human Tanks – Alter, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it’s a rather enjoyable experience. It is a sequel, but having never played the first I cannot say how it stacks up compared to its predecessor,…
Read MoreOf all the Dynasty Warriors games, the Empires series is the most complex and involved, and is also the least renowned. These games generally come last in a release cycle for the Warriors franchise (and come immediately before the next numbered game in the series), and that trend would also…
Read MoreThe Total War series has always been known for mixing accessibility and A-grade production values with a surprisingly deep level of strategy. These games might not quite reach the strategic standard of a title like Europa Universalis, but while is not hard to pick one of these titles up and…
Read MoreAfter the first competent, but otherwise unremarkable take on Monopoly, Ubisoft has continued its new partnership with Hasbro with a new edition of Risk. This classic strategy board game is arguably a more timeless formula than the one about making money, but it is still a game that has aged,…
Read MoreWar: The Game is a new global-scale wargame that is being pitched as a budget-priced multiplayer game of grand scale. Because it looks a little basic in static screenshots, we’ve decided to instead do a video review of this one. Rob delves into the way the game is balanced, the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Too many modern strategy games are focused on the World Wars or, if we’re lucky, a couple of centuries previous to that, such as the Napoleonic era. Occasionally we get a big leap backwards in time to ancient wars, but that’s becoming a rare event. How…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Heroes of Might & Magic III HD is not a game I believe many people were asking for, yet it is such an amazingly well-balanced tactical experience that it should be appreciated by people who missed their chance in the past. There are newer iterations in…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I never owned a Heroes of Might & Magic PC game when I was a child. But I was a massive fan of the franchise from the moment I played it for the first time on the computer of a good friend of mine (the first…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Almost a decade ago (eight years to be precise), Koei Tecmo launched a new IP on the then-fledgling PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Coming around two years after the Xbox 360 launch and just a year after the PlayStation 3, Bladestorm: The Hundred Year’s War didn’t…
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