August 8, 2011
Here’s something you don’t see every day – a competent, multiplayer strategy game that plays nice with all three major operating systems… for free! Heroes of Newerth is the name, and team-based Warcraft-esque online strategy is the game. Originally released as a full-price game in May 2010, Heroes of Newerth has just gone free to play
January 6, 2011
Spawned off the back of popular real-time strategy (RTS) game Total Annihilation, Spring is an open source freeware strategy game engine designed to run on Windows and Linux, with a Mac version still under development. Developers can take the engine and use it as they please, without having to pay the creators any money for [...]
October 7, 2010
Real-time strategy games are the sort that draw you in and hold you enthralled for many hours. The most popular of these include games like EA’s Command and Conquer, or Warzone 2100 by Eidos Interactive. In these games, you build, fortify, scout, and attack in order to build up your own resources and defenses, and [...]
May 31, 2009
These days, flash games still make up the major part of in-browser gaming. True, there are some real beauties here, but the platform has known its golden years. The dawn is breaking. We’ve seen upcoming services that allow high-end 3D gaming from within your browser. In the past, we took a look at the Unity [...]
May 29, 2009
In March of this year, Electronic Arts released BattleForge, which mixed real-time strategy (RTS) with a card-based gameplay. This unique debut didn’t get the media attention it deserved, but it was well loved by the consumers. The game, which has been lying in stores for two months, has now been released for free. This might [...]
May 10, 2009
Nearly all real-time strategy, or RTS games are built on the same principles. Veni, vidi, vici, the famous quote of Julius Caesar, translating to I came, I saw, I conquered. Most of us will have had their hands on at least some of the major real-time strategy games, and everyone recognizes names like Age of [...]
