Things are kind of rough for Thomas Blood right now. After shattering his family's reputation and generations of service to the British Crown - by attempting to kill Queen Victoria no less - Blood has been picked up by the Royal Navy, chained, and shipped off to a mining colony. What's worse is that he was only trying to kill the Queen because she asked him too. Still, there's always a good pirate like Captain Blackheart just waiting to free such a scoundrel and add him to her band of renegades.
The universe is filled to the gills with celestial bodies. And, let's face it—someone's got to conquer them all in the name of humankind, right? Well, such an esteemed galactic commander happens to be you in Galcon Fusion, the most recent installment in the popular Galcon series.
Although The Settlers games are usually considered "core games," ever since the first game released back in 1993, the series has always had a very casual appeal. At the gamescom in Germany, we were given the opportunity to test Ubisoft's upcoming free-to-play version of the series: The Settlers Online, or Castle Empire as the game is called in North America.
Imagine how effective military commanders could be if they had the ability to travel through time and change the past, issuing new commands to influence the future of the battle. In the upcoming real-time strategy gameAchronyou'll get the chance to do just that.
With its next game Kabam, the developer behind social strategy games like Global Warfare and Edgeworld, will be tackling its very first licensed project … and it's a big one. The Godfather: Five Families will take the same in-depth strategy that the developer is known for, add in a few improvements, and apply it to the world of the classic Godfather films.
There's a real time strategy game in the works for the iPad that combines that equally awesome worlds of steampunk and pirates. I know, I know - your head is ready to burst with excitement already - but I promise, there's even more reason to get excited than the combination of clockwork and the high seas.
As the Internet reckons time, 2008 was an exceedingly long time ago. On Facebook, it was an eternity. Still, one of the most popular social games of 2008 was Parking Wars, a promotional title launched as viral advertising for the A&E reality TV series of the same name. Parking Wars was an exceptionally simple game in which the player tries to park cars for a certain period of time on a friend's street without being ticketed. It was a game that encouraged office workers who logged into Facebook to relieve boredom to check back several times per day, both to move their cars and to ticket their friends.Parking Wars 2 is essentially the same game after a much-needed dose of modernization.
If you've found yourself disillusioned by recent ambitious releases such as Civilization World, take heart--King's Bounty: Legions is a game that proves you can adapt a beloved classic title for Facebook without sacrificing quality. And in this case, it's tempting to call the Facebook version every bit as good as the original. Here is a game that demands the right level of strategic competence while sporting beautifully rendered character animations and textures. It doesn't nickel-and-dime you, it offers satisfying battles every time you play, and it never shies from throwing down the gauntlet of challenge. Hardcore gamers, this may be the game you've been waiting for.