Ubisoft brings Panzer General back as an online card game

Ubisoft is bringing back Panzer General, the old hex-based computer strategy game, as an online multiplayer game. But the new Panzer General Online isn’t the addictive strategy game that you, or your grandpa, played in the early 1990s. Instead, this one has a toy-soldier art style and a chess-like card game meant for fans of short-duration games.

The title is the latest remake of a classic older game, like Ubisoft’s Silent Hunter Online and Anno Online. I’m not sure what the official strategy is, but I refer to it as marketing old games to new players, or marketing old games to old farts (like me). The games remind us of the classic titles, but they’re reimagined for the online world. Ubisoft showed the game at its recent Digital Day event.