New trailer for Game of Thrones: War for Westeros reveals Arya Stark and The Mountain
PlaySide Studios released a hero reveal trailer for the PC strategy game Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, this time putting Arya Stark in the spotlight. The clip shows off the deadly assassin skills she...
Age of Empires 2 fan revives debate on building rotation and shows mirrored structures
A veteran Age of Empires 2 player going by CrazyYETEE posted a series of mockups showing what buildings would look like in the Definitive Edition remaster if mirrored horizontally. The idea boils down to letting...
Crusader Kings 3 fan spent a whole hour creating an exact copy of herself in the game, and she's already ready to seduce the Pope
Character creators have basically become the unofficial exam for any game with a portrait system: shape up some nameless barbarian and everything looks fine, but try to recreate your own face, and the whole thing...
Red Alert 2 fan created a 6-minute AI short film — even a former developer praised it
A six-minute AI short film that transplants the world of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 into reality dropped on August 20 and has already racked up around 13,000 views. The video comes from the...
Old age in Crusader Kings 3 has become too harsh after recent patches – just like in real life
Reaching old age in Crusader Kings 3 is a questionable pleasure. One moment your character is winning tournaments, weaving plots, and building an empire, and the next you open the character sheet and spot the...
Stellaris fans joke that the patch adding the ability to center the emblem on their empire's flag has finally made the strategy game playable
Sometimes real happiness for strategy fans doesn't come from a new ship class or an overhaul of an entire game system – it comes from finally being able to center an emblem on your empire...
New Total War: Warhammer 40,000 gameplay showcases an extended battle between Orks and the Imperium
IGN published an extensive gameplay video for Total War: Warhammer 40,000, currently in development by Creative Assembly. In the video, developers walk through a full battle between Orks and Astra Militarum forces, showing off several...
A Crusader Kings 3 player raised such a greedy character that a request to lend five coins could give him a heart attack
In Crusader Kings 3 you can die from poisoned wine, a dagger in the back, or a lost war, but sometimes the deadliest weapon turns out to be a request to borrow a couple of...
Repterra is a base-building survival RTS where you fight dinosaur hordes – demo out now on Steam
Chute Apps and publisher MicroProse Software are gearing up to launch Repterra – a real-time strategy game with survival and base-building elements set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. The story of Repterra drops players...
Dust Front developer shares details on unit placement, squad mechanics, and vehicle armor
The solo developer behind Dust Front has shared a fresh batch of details about the game. In a February post, they showed off the system for placing starting units in RTS mode – before a...
Steampunk tactics game Veil of Ashes ditched Unreal's default tone mapping and finally nailed its gloomy atmosphere
Indie studio Greifenmaer is still hard at work on Veil of Ashes – a real-time tactics game set in a dark steampunk world. Recent weeks of development brought some visible visual and gameplay improvements, with...
Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition gets a massive naval overhaul with new warships and Inca rework
Forgotten Empires released another major patch for Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition – update 169123, which brings sweeping changes to naval gameplay, new ship types, and a full rework of the Inca civilization. The...
Dawn of War 4 developers introduce multi-attack system to reduce clicks
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 launches later this year as a return to the best RTS in the Warhammer 40K universe. Alongside reviving the fan-favorite Sync-Kill system, KingArt Games developed a new multi-attack system...
Age of Empires 2 fan presents AI-generated concept for post-apocalyptic Fallout mod
An Age of Empires fan known as SuperDomeDome shared concept art for a desired Fallout-themed mod for Age of Empires 2 – though the art is clearly AI-generated, it provides a rough idea of what...
Indie RTS D.O.R.F. gets Command & Conquer-style physics – motorcycles fly over hills
A three-person indie studio unveiled a major update for their real-time strategy game D.O.R.F. Real-Time Strategic Conflict. The developers completely overhauled the unit movement system, implementing a physics engine instead of grid-based pathfinding. The result...
