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First look: Command & Conquer 4’s offline mode
When you boot up Command & Conquer 4 , it starts a front end from which you have to log in, much like you would get for an MMO. But then you're in the game and it's mostly like any other real time strategy game. You can play the campaign, a skirmish, or... »
If you didn’t get into the Starcraft II beta, there’s always this
Since there are so few real time strategy games available right now, you might be interested in the beta for Ruse , which will give you an advance peek at Ubisoft's upcoming game about WWII, deception, and maintaining an online connection while you play single-player. It's open to the public and available on... »
Mafia II to include quaint porn
Just because a game is set in the 1940s doesn't mean there's no room for product placement! 2K Games will be including Playboy branded collectibles in Mafia II , the open world game coming out this fall. Mafia II will enable players to collect virtual copies of the iconic magazine, which has served... »
The Big Three of indie startegy games on sale as a set
Through March 9th, you can get a great three-fer deal on a set of wonderful innovative strategy games. Fifty dollars buys you Solium Infernum (pictured), AI War , and Gratuitous Space Battles , all pretty much one-man operations, all very different from each other, and all well worth playing. You can go here... »
SimCity has a starring role in Grand Rapids development scam
A real estate developer has submitted a fishy development plan for Grand Rapids, Michigan that includes a hydrogen power plant, represented by a screenshot from SimCity 4 . As you can see, the proposed hydrogen power plant will be built at the edge of the map so that it won't mess up any... »
Ambitious new career opportunities coming to The Sims 3
Although The Sims 3 opened up the lives of your sims considerably by dropping them into a wide-open town, the career stuff was mostly offscreen. When your sim went to work, she just disappeared into a building. You could choose from a menu how hard your sim would work, and from time to... »
Silent Hunter 5 features pants wetting realism
The naval simulation site Subsim has posted an extended hands-on preview with Silent Hunter 5 , Ubisoft's upcoming World War II U-boat game. The preview has a lot of the exhaustive detail-oriented fussing that only a hardcore simulation nerd would appreciate. But it's also got some good stuff about the new approach to... »
Take Supreme Commander 2 for a spin in the driveway
The Supreme Commander 2 demo is available on Steam. However, I'm afraid it's not going to be a very good representation of the full game. The full game is based on using a tech tree to unlock the various massive robots and giant artillery guns and nuclear strikes that make Supreme Commander Supreme... »
Terrans get down and get funky in Starcraft 2 battle dancing video
It was Blizzard who rewarded us with funny unit responses in Warcraft if we poked our units long enough. And they popularized the /dance emote in MMOs with World of Warcraft . So, of course, leave it to Blizzard to combine the two and advance videogaming to new heights in Starcraft 2 »
Piracy problems get worse for Sins of a Solar Empire
The new Diplomacy expansion pack for sci-fi strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire adds a new layer of interaction among the players. It doesn't do a lot for smaller head-to-head games. But it works wonders for anything with, say, four or more factions vying for control of the galaxy »