Categories Posted inin Business Sega’s Total War: Rome II promises to be a real-time strategy blockbuster (preview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 6, 2013 5 min The Creative Assembly has revealed its turn-based campaign map and a new battle set in Egypt.
Categories Posted inin Entertainment How The Creative Assembly mashes up turn-based strategy and real-time combat in Total War: Rome II (video interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 6, 2013 1 min Total War: Rome II's latest revelations show it will have a deep turn-based game experience on top of real-time combat.
Categories Posted inin Business Disney Infinity looks like a Skylanders clone, but its roots go deep at Disney’s Avalanche (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 6, 2013 8 min By creating a platform, Disney seeks an answer to a business problem of having too many properties.
Categories Posted inin Business Tango’s plan for world dominance after 120M users: Bringing its messaging platform into mobile games Posted byby GamesBeat June 6, 2013 2 min What started out as a simple cross-platform video chat application has grown into a messaging giant with more than 120 million users. So where does it go from here?
Categories Posted inin Business Kingdom Rush: Frontiers is full of secrets, geeky references, and deep, addicting strategy (review) Posted byby GamesBeat June 6, 2013 5 min It starts off with "more of the same" but quickly moves to "give me more." New towers and plenty of little secrets make this one a must-play.
Categories Posted inin Technology With $12M in funding, N3twork aims to build a web experience based on your interests, not your friends Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 6, 2013 3 min The founders of Ngmoco have moved on to create the interest-based network that gives you what you want on a topic.
Categories Posted inin Business Plarium aims to reproduce Facebook success with Total Domination: Reborn on iOS Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 6, 2013 2 min Plarium snared 30 million players for its Total Domination hardcore strategy game. Now it is expanding into mobile.
Categories Posted inin Business Hardware: Shipbreakers developer plans to carve out market next to League of Legends (exclusive) Posted byby Jeff Grubb June 5, 2013 3 min Hardware is a free-to-play real-time-strategy game set in a sci-fi universe.
Categories Posted inin Business Journey composer Austin Wintory releases Leisure Suit Larry soundtrack Posted byby Jeff Grubb June 5, 2013 2 min Austin Wintory released a 21-track album with the Late Night Jazz Orchestra on Bandcamp for $6.
Categories Posted inin Business Ticket to Ride choo-choos on to Android’s Play market with cross-platform play Posted byby Jeff Grubb June 5, 2013 1 min Android gets one of the best board games of the past 10 years in Ticket to Ride.