ANNOUNCEMENT 02 Apr 2016­ by Stephen Haselden

Starpoint Gemini Warlords – Revisiting an Old Favourite

Little Green Men Games (LGMG), the developers behind the Starpoint Gemini series have announced that the third game in their series - Warlords, will be released on Steam Early Access, from the 14th of April. The game is taking an evolutionary step up from the previous games in the series. The developers have been listening…
ANNOUNCEMENT 02 Apr 2016­ by Stephen Haselden

Ashes of the Singularity Is Out of Early Access

The ultra-modern ultra-hardcore RTS from Stardock has just finished Early Access and hit full release. Ashes of the Singularity is an uncompromising venture into making RTS’s mainstream again. I dubbed 2015 the year of that RTS returns because we saw many RTS released, from old classics like Homeworld returning in its remastered form, to some…
ANNOUNCEMENT 25 Mar 2016­ by Stephen Haselden

Armada Gets a Release Delay and Extra Races

Due to balancing issues and player feedback Tindalos have just pushed back the release date for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada from the end of March to the 21st of April. So far Beta players for BFG: Armada have been enjoying putting the Imperium and the Chaos races through their paces. To make up for the slight…
ANNOUNCEMENT 24 Mar 2016­ by Stephen Haselden

TW: Warhammer Now With Bad Case of Necromancers

Do you find yourself digging up grave late at night? Do you get sunburns from 60 Watt light bulbs? And do those worthless bags of skin called people call you names like Necky McNecro or skeleton breath behind your back? Then you might have a bad case of Necromancer going on. The bad news is,…
ANNOUNCEMENT 12 Mar 2016­ by Stephen Haselden

Lords of Rigel Announced

Another day another challenger to Master of Orion title, as king of the 4X’s. This time the challenger is Lords of Rigel, a title from Rhombus Studios. The Rhombus team is comprised of a spread of modders, up and coming programmers, and even a racoon rehabilitation specialist (no I didn’t make that up). Rhombus as…
ANNOUNCEMENT 11 Mar 2016­ by Stephen Haselden

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada Beta Testing Begins

For any heretics out there who are unaware of the glorious upcoming space RTS Battlefleet Armada: Gothic, let me enlighten you! Gothic is the much anticipated W40K game of space combat, there have been many great (and some not so great) W40K games over the years but this is the first one centered around battles…
ARTICLES 10 Mar 2016­ by Stephen Haselden

An Unlikely Inspiration

Wargaming are a big company who’ve made a lot of money on their freemium third person simulations so it came as a real shock when they took on an utterly alien project to their usual games and bought the rights to Master of Orion. Wargaming then declared that they would remake the classic in modern…
ANNOUNCEMENT 09 Mar 2016­ by Stephen Haselden

StarDrive 2 Upgrades to Turn Based in the New DLC

StarDrive 2, the 4X that pits Space Bears against Cthulhu worshipping Squids, has just had a new piece of DLC released: Sector Zero. It enables players to embark on their voyage of empire building using turn based mechanics instead of real time simultaneous simulation. Along with tb strategy, Sector Zero adds a number of other…
ANNOUNCEMENT 04 Mar 2016­ by Stephen Haselden

Total War: Warhammer – Time to Sharpen That Axe

Do you find other people ignorant and obnoxiously tall? Do you have a dozen or more hidden caches of your gold? Do you still have a grudge to settles with the stinky foot tribe for setting your great great great great grandfather’s beard on fire? Do you find the most attractive women to be those…
ANNOUNCEMENT 02 Mar 2016­ by Stephen Haselden

DoW II: Retribution Gets Necron Overlord

Dawn of War II: Retribution is five years old now and still a very popular game. As a thank you to fans, Relic are about to release a new hero for the game’s “Last Stand” mode. At long last we can now play as the Necron Lord (oh yeah)! He resurrects stuff, it his thing,…