The year comes to a close with a bit of a whimper, most of the big seasonal titles having already come out. There is no late flurry of releases at all. Gamespot has a single firm date for a strategy title.

December 8 – State of War: Warmonger (Alten8/Cypron)

Seven Kingdoms: Conquest (CDV/Enlight) and Spellforce 2 (Aspyr/JoWood) are both listed by Gamespy as “Holiday 2006” releases, whatever that means. Sparta: Ancient Wars (Playlogic/World Forge) is listed in some places as a late December release, but there hasn’t been a Gold announcement yet, as far as I know.

So the year of strategy gaming is pretty much done. I have a bunch of games to play from the last month, though. Yet another Euro-RTS arrived today, and I still want to get my review of Dominions 3 out there. Warhammer: Mark of Chaos is on its way, too. Plus all these hex wargames. And Forge of Freedom.