Ashes of the Singularity allows players to use as many as 100,000 combat units in a single battle.
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How Ashes of the Singularity enables massive planetary battles with huge sci-fi armies

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ashes of the Singularity looks like a technical tour de force. In this real-time strategy (RTS) game for the PC, you’ll be able to take direct control of a full army, with as many as 100,000 combat units on the screen at the same time.

A title like this doesn’t come along every day, and it should have hardware vendors salivating. Ashes of the Singularity is the kind of release that could justify the purchase of the newest gaming PCs. Jon Peddie Research estimates that worldwide PC gaming hardware sales will grow from $24.6 billion in 2015 to $26.1 billion in 2016. PC gaming hardware is expected to grow to $30 billion by 2018.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.