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Real Time Strategy EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Supreme Commander 2 ups the robots vs. robots ante 15 By the time I'm a withered old man, I expect to have 3D board games with battles that unfold similar to the scene presented in this Supreme Commander 2 image. It could be sorta like The Indian in... A Kingdom for Keflings is getting a PC release 5 The first Xbox LIVE Arcade game with playable Avatars was NinjaBee's A Kingdom for Keflings, a quirky game about bossing around villagers as a giant and looking for hearts buried deep inside the ... Confirmed: Command & Conquer 4 contains snow 3 In the future, wars will be fought with machines designed by guys who love them some Transformers. If Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is an accurate portrayal of the future, that is. I... New Stonesense visualizer makes Dwarf Fortress playable 23 Forget Silent Hill or Fatal Frame. You know a game that's terrifying? Bay12's Slaves to Armok: God of Blood: Dwarf Fortress II, colloquially shortened to simply Dwarf Fortress. If being one of A... Chaos Space Marines tear s**t up in this Chaos Rising vid 12 More single-player missions for the Blood Ravens, a raise in level cap from 20 up to 30, previously unseen multiplayer content: all of this will be present in the Chaos Rising expansion for Warh... Review: Eufloria 26 Eufloria -- formerly known as Dyson -- has been on my radar for a while now. Firstly, one of its creators also made Cottage of Doom. This, in itself, is sufficient reason for excitement.Secondly,... R.U.S.E. getting it on with Windows 7 and multitouch 7 Eugen Systems' real-time strategy game R.U.S.E. may be treading on tired ground with its setting (World War II), but besides that setback, it looks to be an inventive, fun little game.Seeing as h... Awww: Mushroom Wars hits PSN this week, looks adorable 13 Creat Studios is bringing highly-adorable mushroom conflict to the PlayStation Network this week with Mushroom Wars, a new down-and-dirty real-time strategy game designed to be easy to get into ... Dawn of War II getting The Last Stand tomorrow 8 I don't know what's up with the recent fascination in survival modes a la Gears of War 2's Horde Mode or Halo 3: ODST's Firefight, but I love it. The latest game to get such a mode is Dawn of War... Command & Conquer 4 screens love them some neon colors 8 Similar to the shift from Dawn of War to its successor, so too will Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight have less of an emphasis on all-out base building. Not that there isn't a time and a... DRM-free Stronghold bundle coming later this month 6 Miss the boat on the Stronghold series like I did? On October 27, you can redeem yourself.That's when The Stronghold Collection is heading to North American store shelves (or 2010 for the rest of... Indie game 'Dyson' is now 'Eufloria,' still looks neat 6 If you haven't yet played Dyson, then you can play the free, original version here. I'm told it's very good, though I can't speak personally because -- despite how simple it looks -- I couldn't f... Blizzard loses some minerals over BlizzCon 14 Blizzard’s annual BlizzCon expo celebrating all things StarCraft, Warcraft and Diablo isn’t as profitable as one might think. Despite selling 20,000 tickets at $125 a pop, a ton of me... Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! 3D 4 Remember that freaky teaser site Sony put up recently? A few of you guessed that it had something to do with Holy Invasion of Priacy, Badman!, the comical PSP strategy game, and that guess was mo... Bubble Bobble Neo!, C&C Commander's Challenge on XBLA 16 Two new games are headed to Xbox LIVE Arcade this week: Bubble Bobble Neo! and Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Commander's Challenge (or C&CRA3CC for short). Both will set you back 800 Micr... Review: Raven Squad 26 The medium of interactive entertainment is full of good ideas that, for some reason or another, never realized their full potential. Either the required budget just wasn't there, pressure from pu... First footage of CCP's Dust 514, console companion to EVE 26 I've always been academically fascinated by EVE Online -- any game with an economy robust enough to have its own crises is worth noting -- but its mechanics have always seemed remote, obtuse, and... Electronic Arts files two Dungeon Keeper trademarks 23 Dungeon Keeper is one of the best computer games that ever came out of Britain, and one of Bullfrog's finest accomplishments. However, there was once a time when Electronic Arts was just as evil ... Dawn of War, Company of Heroes games half price on Steam 8 Steam sales usually tend to be pretty crazy, and I feel like I say this every single time, but the newest discount is going to be very difficult to pass up. As spotted by community blogger Nerdy ... There's a huge update coming to Dawn of War II tomorrow 6 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II's next significant update, dubbed "There is Only War," is being released by Relic tomorrow afternoon.Most notably, the patch brings new observer and ref... Review: Little King's Story 50 Little King's Story is a new game from the creative minds behind Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy VII, and Harvest Moon. A superstar collaboration of this nature would be the stuff of non-stop disc... Tom Clancy's EndWar getting the sequel treatment 10 Tom Clancy's EndWar worked well with voice commands, which I'm guessing was one of the biggest development hurdles, but the actual game itself? Pretty standard as far as real-time strategy games ... Raven Squad screens show the Amazon, explosions therein 3 Since SouthPeak Games was kind enough to send over some new screens from Atomic Motion’s first-person shooter/real-time strategy mash up Raven Squad, I figured I may as well as put them up ... Review: LEGO Battles 24 I would have thought by now that more developers would be capitalizing on the Nintendo DS for RTS games. The touchscreen input method should lend itself handily to designating targets and directi... Preview: Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim 16 If there is one complaint I have about the RTS genre, it s that is be a bit too…involved. I mean, there is no lazy way to play StarCraft or Command and Conquer. You’ve got to actuall... Men of War: Red Tide takes you back to WWII, again 7 Men of War: Red Tide is the stand-alone expansion to the original Men of War for the PC. The expansion will introduce a new story, new units, new upgrades, new weapons and there will be over 20 m... Learn medieval Russian battle history in XIII Century! Woo! 5 It was an interesting gaming situation, sitting down to play a RTS in the Russian Consulate in San Francisco, eating very Slavic food (caviar and pickled asparagus) and trying to keep up with an ... StarCraft II's map editor set for launch, possibly beta 6 Our very own Jonathan Ross had the opportunity to sit down with Dustin Browder, lead designer on StarCraft II, to discuss all things related to the highly-anticipated game. When asked about the p... Review: Swords & Soldiers 13 Swords & Soldiers came out for WiiWare last week and I had no idea it even existed (I should probably read Destructoid more often). Frankly, the idea of a 2D side-scrolling RTS was something ... The next Command and Conquer to be an MMO? 22 The next Command and Conquer title could be different. An online survey making the rounds suggests that Electronic Arts’ is considering putting a touch of MMO in the dated RTS. The features... Peregrine looks friggin' sweet 26 I've held on to this for a little while now because I didn't want it to get lost in everything that came out of E3. I was surprised that I didn't really hear anybody talking about it at the show.... Supreme Commander console sequel might not suck 10 The console port of Supreme Commander was terrible. The game’s frame rate constantly stuttered, the controls were felt like a child designed them, and the visual quality was beyond lacklust... E3 09: RUSE will have touch screen support 10 The RUSE battlefield is represented as a battle map within a Command Center. Zoom out to the maximum and you can see in the background the current war room you're situated in with soldiers and pe... E3 09: LEGO Battles is a bit of a surprise 6 The LEGO games, while always decent, started to run out of steam for me a while ago. The same old collection-based platforming was getting a bit stale and it's nice to see the franchise branch ou... E3 09: Raven Squad still exists, pics prove it 3 If you don’t remember anything about SouthPeak Games and Atomic Motion’s Raven Squad, don’t feel bad, as we haven’t heard anything about it since I brought it to your atte... Pre-E3 09: Yep, Supreme Commander 2 does in fact exist 5 Admitedly, Supreme Commander 2 was announced last year, but few details were available at the time and no footage of the game was ever shown. As such, it quickly became lost in the already crowde... BattleForge adopts the Play4Free model 6 EA Phenomic's card-based real-time strategy game BattleForge can now be downloaded for free, no strings attached! The game is still being offered at retail, with the incentive to pay being extra ... Never enough LEGOs: LEGO Battles announced for the DS 15 Warner Bros. has announced a new LEGO game and it's actually based on existing LEGO IPs rather than capitalizing on popular franchises. Shocking! LEGO Battles will feature multiple classes of LEG... Halo Wars gets some overpriced DLC 17 The new Halo Wars DLC is out today. The add-on pack is called "Strategic Options" and brings three additional game modes:Keepaway: Teams need to capture a free-roaming Sentinel three ti... Cheapskate alert: Universe at War is only $5 on Steam 12 Another Friday night, another weekend deal from Steam is upon us. This time, it's Petroglyph's 2007 sci-fi real-time strategy game, Universe at War: Earth Assault. While the title normally runs f... EA gives BattleForge's price a good slashing 6 EA Phenomic's mixture of real-time strategy with trading cards, BattleForge, has received a sizable price reduction to the tune of $20 off. The title can now be found at North American retails fo... Is this a Pikmin 3 teaser? 35 The most recent issue of EDGE Magazine has an interesting full-page ad on one of its pages. Yea, that's part of it above. What's so interesting about a bunch of grass? Well for one it's in a gami... R.U.S.E. continues to impress with this second demo video 6 It's been a while since the last video demonstration of R.U.S.E. went up, but I must confess, I'm still unable to stop my jaw from slowly dropping while watching the footage unfold.  This ti... Stalin vs. Martians pushed back, but don't stop dancing 7 With today being 4/20, you can plainly see why the three companies behind Stalin vs. Martians, Dreamlore, BWF, and N-Game, wanted to get their product out the door. However, the insane arcade-sty... Effectively use 20 minutes of your weekend with Starcraft II 33 I won't lie here I'm only two minutes into this 20 minutes of StarCraft II footage you can see below and while I am surely impressed I don't know if I'll make it all 20. That isn't to say that th... New R.U.S.E. trailer will have RTS fans all hot and bothered 15 Remember R.U.S.E.? You know, the real-time strategy game that promised to bring a whole new level of scope to the genre? It was announced during the Game Developers Conference, so it's understand... Pre-order Stalin vs. Martians, save a few bucks 6 Mezmer Games wants you to celebrate 4/20 in style with its real-time strategy game, Stalin vs. Martians. In fact, they don't just want you to, they need you to. As such, a discount is being offer... Dawn of War II 25% off on Steam, new single-player demo out 4 Miss out on the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II multiplayer beta and want to see what kind of performance you can get from the game on your PC? You're in luck, for a single-player demo has gone ... Stalin vs. Martians dated, still makes absolutely no sense 13 Indie PC real-time strategy game Stalin vs. Martians is still a ridiculous concept, and it's still coming out later this month. To be more specific, it's actually hitting "all major digital ... Demigod goes gold, Collector's Edition gets unboxed 11 Admit it, you've sped home after purchasing a hotly anticipated game and proceeded to pour the box's contents all over your floor like a sugar-crazed child who just smashed his way through a pina... These League of Legends screens look familiar 8 Want to know what these screenshots remind me of? Tropical Skittles, and yes, I'm being completely serious here. Don't lie -- you can see it now too, can't you? Just look at that color palette!Da... GDC 09: League of Legends was a pleasant surprise 9 Here's my prediction: League of Legends is going to be a popular game. Don't be ashamed if you don't know what it is, though. Even though I've heard the name before, I didn't really know what the... GDC 09: Ubisoft pumps out a new RTS, calls it 'R.U.S.E.' 12 Out of pure principal alone, I didn't even want to spend a minute of my time looking at Ubisoft/Eugen Systems' new real-time strategy game, R.U.S.E. It's nothing personal -- it's just that a pers... BattleForge open beta primed and ready for download 4 If, like me, you have blown all your hard-earned money on Lemonheads and Mountain Dew (or should I say "Mtn Dew") but need more videogames to play without resorting to piracy, there's s... With a name like Stalin vs. Martians, you know it's gotta be good 19 "Sing a song, have some fun! Rhythm is a dancer!"No, I'm not quite sure what it means either, but that's the beauty of it -- the quote doesn't have to make any sense. Indie arcade-style... Creative Assembly isn't threatened by console strategy games 19 While console-based real-time strategy games have made a lot of progress in recent years, we're still quite a bit off from seeing them match what's happening on the PC gaming scene.Having recentl... Preview: BattleForge's multiplayer 8 The other day, I had a chance to spend some time on EA and Phenomic's upcoming real time strategy game, BattleForge for the PC. If you haven't heard of it before, shame on you -- go eat some glas... NY Comic Con: BattleForge impressions 4 Hearing the term “real-time strategy” instantly brings to mind certain genre tropes: harvesting resources, building bases, climbing up technology trees. But EA is releasing a new IP... Here's a handful of Demigod screens for the DotA junkie in us all 19 As essentially the sole proponent of Demigod around these parts, I have done quite a few media-related posts for the real-time strategy/role-playing game hybrid. It's not gotten anywhere near the... Hipsters, it may be time to take off your keffiyeh - Raid Gaza is causing a stir 51 In case you were raised and suckled by she-wolves, here's a little background on Raid Gaza: the Gaza Strip is a piece of land that isn't owned by any sovereign power, and Israel and Hamas (the de... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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