Your family is dead, and the buildings in your once-peaceful town have been reduced to smoking piles of rubble. The townsfolk are looking to you to help rebuild, yet all that's on your mind is revenge. That may sound like the set-up for any number of old Western movies, but it's also the starting point for your character in Gangs of Boomtown, the action/town-building hybrid by Digital Chocolate.
It's always the case, isn't it? You're on holiday, trying to enjoy yourself and forget all the responsibilities you have waiting for you back at home, and then you go and get hit by a freak bolt of lightning and wind up back in the days of King Arthur, with more responsibility than you can handle! I hate it when holidays take that turn.
Gangs of Boomtown is a social game developed by Digital Chocolate that challenges you to rebuild your town in the dangerous old West. Gamezebo's Gangs of Boomtown strategy guide and walkthrough will provide you with a quick start guide, tips and tricks, hints and cheats to help you manage your life in Gangs of Boomtown.
For those of us who go back a long way with PC gaming, you won't get far into reminiscing conversations about favorites before someone brings up Populous. The thrill of playing as a deity "influencing" your civilization by changing the world that surrounded them took many an hour away from many a gamer. This pixelated nirvana also captured the attention of a young Jon Caplin, so much so that he is now developing Reprisal, a browser Flash game inspired by and in homage to Bullfrog's 1990 classic.
Ninjas are meant to be stealthy dealers of silent death. However, if they're anything like the characters in Shinobi ZIN then you can likely see them coming a mile away and dispatch them with minimal difficulty. What starts off as a promising action-puzzler quickly collapses under its own weight as it tries to be too clever for its own good.
The new RTS Plants War is an intense action-strategy game pitting you, at the head of the Plants, against the computer-controlled forces of the Beasts in a struggle for dominance of a post-human world. The basics of battle are simple enough to grasp in this fast-paced free-to-play game, but unless you're willing to sink money or some serious grinding time into it, you can expect to have a very tough row to hoe.
Heads up, strategy fans! Outwitters, the upcoming game from Tilt to Live studio One Man Left, isn't quite ready for prime time, but it's already looking pretty good. The studio describes it as a "multiplayer strategy/board game" that will offer pass 'n' play action, unranked online pickup matches and, most important of all, ranked online league games. "The meat of the action is in the leagues, where a whole world of blood-thirsty strangers will be clawing their way to fortune and glory," One Man Left says. "Mostly just glory."
One of the coolest things about working in the gaming industry is that you get to see and hear about a whole lot of games way before they launch. The downside is that there's so much info and noise constantly coming your way that it's easy to get cynical and jaded and hard to get really excited about stuff. That's how I know The Banner Saga is going to be special, because after watching the announcement trailer and getting a bit of info about the title, I absolutely cannot wait to play it.