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StarCraft II PSA: Don’t forget you need WoL installed for HotS
Today sees the release of the long awaited second instalment in the StarCraft II saga. The Zerg focussed chapter, Heart of the Swarm, follows Kerrigan’s revenge-fuelled campaign of destruction, but...
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Review: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
It’s weird to think that Wings of Liberty came out nearly three years ago. The first chapter in Blizzard’s StarCraft II trilogy certainly left things hanging, but it doesn’t really feel as if the wait...
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Heart of the Swarm sells over 1 million in 48 hours
Activision Blizzard has announced that StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, the expansion to 2010’s Wings of Liberty, has sold 1.1 million copies worldwide in the first two days of release. This figure...
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Impressions: Company of Heroes 2 multiplayer beta
The original Company of Heroes was a favourite among real-time strategy fans during a time when the genre was arguably in a slump which left many gamers questioning its future. It managed to achieve...
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teamPixel didn’t win the Homeworld bid
About three months ago, this tiny software development company called teamPixel, announced to the world that they were going to save the Homeworld IP. Homeworld, of course, was one of the IPs in...
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Ogle 20 minutes of Planetary Annihilation gameplay
Planetary Annihilation! You will have heard of it if you’re partial to games of the RTS persuasion. I was convinced that we’d written about it before but that doesn’t seem to be the case. For that...
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Homeworld IP acquired by Gearbox Software
Well now, can’t say this was entirely expected. Gearbox Software has revealed that they were the highest bidder for the Homeworld IP during a recent bid held on 15 April 2013; the same bid at which...
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Relic could still be making Dawn of War 3
Relic held the license from Games Workshop to develop the incredibly good Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War series of RTS games. That deal was alive and kicking when Relic was still owned by THQ; they were...
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It’s like the Dune RTS and Homeworld had a baby
Hardware: Shipbreakers has my undivided attention for three reasons: first of all it’s a new real-time strategy IP and we sorely need more of those; second it’s being put together by a bunch of people...
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Miss Homeworld? Look at Void Destroyer
Developer Paul Zakrzewski is making a game called Void Destroyer. It’s described as a “space combat simulator and real time strategy hybrid”. The single-player only game sees you taking on the role of...
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Review: Company of Heroes 2
2006 seems like a very long time ago. Seven years is a long time to be AWOL for a gaming series that boasts the accolade of “the highest rated strategy game”. Yes there were two standalone expansions...
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Sega files claim for nearly $1 million from THQ
In January this year, Sega bought Relic and its Company of Heroes IP from the rotting corpse of THQ. By that stage, THQ the publisher had been dead for quite a while, and the choice morsels of...
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New Pikmin 3 trailer shows off protagonists
Good news all you Wii U faithfuls: Nintendo has released a new trailer for Pikmin 3. That on its own wouldn’t be remarkable, but couple in the fact that we’ve been starved for Wii U games over the...
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Gearbox announces remakes of Homeworld and Homeworld 2
This weekend saw Australians getting to revel in all things gaming as the Penny Arcade Expo invaded Melbourne. During PAX Australia, Gearbox revealed that they will be releasing high definition...
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Wargaming.net now owns Total Annihilation
In my mind, there are only three real-time strategy franchises. Age of Empires, Total Annihilation, and StarCraft. Yes yes, I know I just summed up an entire complex and long-standing video game genre...
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This ambitious RTS is being developed by one man
A guy called Ede Tarsoly has released a trailer for what looks like a rather promising real-time strategy game called Meridian: New World. Tarsoly has been working on the project on his own for a...
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Russian distributor halts sales of Company of Heroes 2
Company of Heroes 2 has been the source of much resentment in the Motherland. Those of you who have played through the game’s single-player campaign might have noticed that the Russian leadership...
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Hands-on with Command & Conquer
The moment that EA announced the new C&C would be free-to-play, interest for the game took a dive. We all sat around the office grimacing at each other. It was a sad day, and that’s been the...
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Gearbox shares Homeworld IP with Hardware: Shipbreakers devs
Remember Hardware: Shipbreakers? We first learnt about the RTS game from Blackbird Interactive earlier this year; it’s the game being developed by a team that’s largely made up of the guys behind the...
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Is this HD enough for you, Homeworld fans?
Gearbox is busy putting together HD re-releases of Homeworld and Homeworld 2. Both games have a vociferous fan base that has been largely neglected for nearly 10 years now. In a way, I kind of feel...
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