If you have any interest in EA’s upcoming Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, you should read Chris Remo’s interview with Amer Ajami and Greg Kasavin over at Game, Set, Watch. On the separation between the Red Alert and Tiberium branches of the Command and Conquer franchise: AA: Red Alert 2 was the game that […]
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Starcraft II: A Trilogy
October 12th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Blizzard, Industry, RTS
I’ll be heading out on a short road trip to LA tomorrow morning, but I thought I should comment on the big RTS news of the week. Blizzard is doing three long form campaigns for the upcoming Starcraft II, and each one will be packaged separately. So, if you want to play all three campaigns, […]
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Mark Noseworthy Points Out the Obvious
August 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Consoles, Design, RTS
PC real time strategy games don’t work so well when ported to console platforms. So don’t expect to see Company of Heroes on your 360 any time soon. But Dawn of War II isn’t a traditional RTS, so it might work.
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Stormrise Coming to PC
August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Consoles, RTS
Creative Assembly’s console RTS Stormrise will eventually make it to the PC. I saw the game at E3 and wasn’t really impressed. The controls looked fine, but the demo was so staged – an assault on a seemingly immobile defensive army – that I got a poor feel for how it worked in real time. […]
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Hearts of Iron 3
August 20th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Paradox, RTS, WW2
It’s their best selling series, so why not? In other Paradox news, a new trailer for Majesty 2.
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Red Alert 3 Faction Preview
August 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Red Alert 3 Faction Preview · Electronic Arts, Preview, RTS
Tom Chick at Fidigt has published the first installment of a series about the upcoming Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. He starts with the Allies. I was never a big Command & Conquer person until C&C 3 came along, so I can’t be certain how many of the units and descriptions radically deviate from […]
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