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Strategy games EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag 24 hour contest time GO: For the Glory (PC) 265 Welcome to another 24 hour contest! This time, we're giving away For the Glory - A Europa Universalis Game for the PC. For the Glory is a historical real time strategy game that spans from the y... Madness spreads to Playstation Network, Military style 7 One of the not so well known retro secrets is that the TurboGrafix-16 was once home to some of the best console strategy games of its time.  Well, at least that's how I remember it. Regardle... Monday Mind Teasers: Bloody Fun Day 6 Did everyone escape the clutches of last week's locked room game? Great! This week we face a whole different type of mind teaser game, with both turn-based and path-based strategies to consider a... Fat Princess getting a new map, demo, and patch soon 25 Fat Princess. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Are you folks still playing it these days? Titan Studios over on the PlayStation.Blog wants to remind us that it will soon be time to ... On XBLA this week: Panzer General and Tower Bloxx Deluxe 1 Since it seems like we gave Microsoft crap every single time a $15 Xbox LIVE Arcade game was put out -- even if the game was worthy of that price -- let me take this opportunity to say wow, there... Have a new dose of this new Valkyria Chronicles 2 trailer 13 Dale deemed Valkyria Chronicles 2 a worthy successor to the original after getting some quick hands on time with it at this year's Tokyo Game Show, and he's not alone in thinking so -- I think th... Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman! 2 due out this spring 12 Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman!: What Did I Do to Deserve This? is one of those games that, ten years ago, never would have made it outside of Japan. In other words, it's pure gaming hilarity wr... Our first real glimpse of Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising 24 Accompanying an incredibly short teaser trailer for the Chaos Rising expansion to Relic Entertainment's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is something slightly more useful: actual in-game screensh... XBLA this week: Bust-A-Move, Military Madness, and more 16 Ever notice how an increasing number of new Xbox LIVE Arcade games have decided to randomly feature Avatars, usually to serve no actual purpose whatsoever? Yeah, so I'm not alone then. Good news ... 'Warpath' add-on for Empire: Total War revealed 9 As announced today, Empire: Total War is getting an expansion of sorts in October. The new Steam-exclusive downloadable campaign, "Warpath," brings Native American factions into the fra... Not working on Elite 4 is madness 9 Oh, Elite you revolutionized the space-trading game genre and brought upon computer gamers 3D gaming of a sort. Then you had two sequels, at which point your creators got in a fight and broke up.... Sol Survivor impressions: making turret defense 'twitchy' 8 One of the best things about going to conventions like PAX, and covering competitions like Microsoft's Dream.Build.Play, is that I get the opportunity to play games that I would've avoided like t... Empire: Total War getting a big ol' update this month 7 Do you hear that? Yes sir, it's time for another Empire: Total War update. While Sega would rather make us wait anxiously for a few more weeks before telling us exactly when update 1.4 goes onlin... Robocalypse - Mobile Mayhem marches onto the iPhone 1 If you're an iPhone owner and you never got around to playing Robocalypse for the Nintendo DS, this is a really great opportunity to pick up some really solid strategy goodness for your portable ... Defense Grid coming to XBLA on September 2 6 Hidden Path Entertainment is bringing their highly addictive tower defense game to Xbox LIVE Arcade in two weeks. Defense Grid: The Awakening is going to go for 800 MS Points on September 2, and ... GC 09: Total War becoming more story driven with 'Napoleon' 10 Creative Assembly's Total War franchise has always been about large-scale battles, but the latest in the long line of strategy games is going for a more personal approach. Napoleon: Total War ret... Panzer General lives on as an upcoming XBLA card game 6 Those wondering when Ubisoft was going to do something with the Panzer General rights need not wonder any longer. Panzer General: Allied Assault, an Xbox LIVE Arcade card game, will be launching ... Destroy the environment for profit in Greed Corp 25 W! Games has announced the upcoming release of Greed Corp for PlayStation Network. Greed Corp is a turn-based strategy game in which players control one of four corporations raping the environmen... Make King Arthur a tyrant or toss lightning in 'King Arthur' 5 King Arthur may surprise. Defined as an RPG-Strategy game by Neocore Games, it attempts to find a balance between the combination of resource management and real-time battles with quests and magi... 'Bout time: Demigod demo now up for download 11 A little late to the party, but we will most certainly take it. Stardock and Gas Powered Games' Demigod is now playable in demo form, which is fantastic news for anyone who wants to see how well ... SDCC: Defense Grid still coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade 3 It has been so long since the Xbox LIVE Arcade port of Defense Grid was announced, I was started to think the tower defense game was stuck in development hell. Turns out, I thought wrong -- the g... Good Old Games nabs Rebellion plus other assorted goodies 6 It's been far too long since we have talked about Good Old Games, but that has more to do with me being unfamiliar with many of the DRM-free service's recent additions than anything else. My expe... Band of Bugs gets playable Avatars, new DLC, and more 6 Now when I say Avatars are playable for the Xbox LIVE Arcade strategy game Band of Bugs, I mean exactly that. Your persona doesn't simply appear next to a score -- it'll be right up in the action... Exclusive: New tune for Mechos Wars WiiWare, art for MW 2010 8 The Luc Bernard show keeps rolling on today, now with an exclusive track from upcoming WiiWare port of Mechos Wars. I was going to download the game on the Wii regardless because I don't own an i... New Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgement screenies look cutesy 29 If you ever played any of the Vandal Hearts games, you likely have the same fond memories I do of this tactical RPG series that more often than not fell under people's radar. I wasn't even aware ... Preview: King's Bounty: Armored Princess 17 You know, during Another Night in Moscow, there was one game that immediately attracted my attention: King’s Bounty: Armored Princess. First of all, there was something really was off abo... The return of the mack: Luc Bernard's new game is out 27 Yes friends, from here on out, Luc Bernard will officially be known as "The Mack", and he has returned. Ironically, his theme song is not the 70's funk hit by the same name, it's actual... Destructoid Review: Knights in the Nightmare 44 You've never played anything like Knights in the Nightmare. How can I be so sure? Well, every time I try to explain the game play, I find that I have to explain it twice, even to seasoned gamers.... Why Pikmin is the greatest videogame series ever 52 A few weeks ago Jim Sterling wrote an article about why Dynasty Warriors is the greatest videogame series ever. It was an interesting feature, but I had to chuckle at the glaring typo in the head... Luc Bernard talks for ages before showing Mecho Wars 20 Luc Bernard has released the world's first gameplay video for his upcoming iPhone game Mecho Wars. Well, it claims to be a gameplay video, but the first few minutes of footage is just Bernard tal... Square Enix announces Vanguard Storm for iPhone 23 If you're a fan of tower defense games, you hopefully have already downloaded the excellent Crystal Defenders for your iPhone. Square must have noticed the heaps of praise the game recieved, beca... Civilization IV: The Complete Edition announced 14 Are you ready to get your strategy on? 2K Games has announced Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: The Complete Edition, a collection of Civ IV plus the expansions, and it's hitting North American ... Valkyria Chronicles may be getting a sequel 47 It is a sad truth, but sometimes great games get overlooked. It's even sadder when a great game gets overlooked on a system that really needs to be able to say, "Hey, look at this great game... Preview: Worms 2: Armageddon 29 I have a long and happy history with the Worms series of games. Many a night that should have been spent studying for my college classes was frittered away with my dorm roommate in epic duels of ... Three new DLC packs revealed for Valkyria Chronicles 38 We knew DLC was coming for Valkyria Chronicles way back in November of last year, but there's hardly been a peep about it since then. I'm a big fan of the game, so I was thrilled to see the news ... Fresh on Steam: Empire: Total War 4 From Sega and The Creative Assembly, Empire: Total War is now available on Steam. This time you'll take your strategy to the seas in the eighteenth century Age of Enlightenment. Hey, it looks abs... PopCap's first screen from Plants vs Zombies shambles on in 6 One look at PopCap's shiny, blatantly colorful homepage and I still wince out of habit, for it all seems so CASUAL. Yes, I know, I cast it around like a dirty word, but you'll forgive me if I adm... Savage Moon coming to PSN tomorrow 7 I know that a few people have been aching for this game to finally hit the PlayStation Network, and they can all breathe a collective sigh of relief with the news that Savage Moon is finally arri... Luc Bernard reveals Mecho Wars, it doesn't look too bad but ... 41 ... Eternity's Child didn't look too bad either. Obviously, with this being a game from Luc Bernard's new Wiiware/DS/iPhone company, I can imagine that the entire gamer community will be skeptica... Valkyria Chronicles DLC on the way for 2009 15 Although I had been keeping an eye on Valkyria Chronicles, the fact that the game was being described as a strategy RPG left me unable to commit to being fully excited for its release as I do not... Koei announces Nobunaga's Ambition: Iron Triangle for PS2 7 I first discovered Nobunaga's Ambition on the NES back in the day, and I remember I was about as good at it then as I am at strategy games now, which is to say, devastatingly terrible at them. I'... Preview: Luminous Arc 2 17 Ah, Japanese anime-ish tactical strategy role-playing games. I'm a sucker for them, but lately the releases have been pretty disappointing to this fan. Even the predecessor to this game, last yea... Ubisoft: Hardcore strategy fans killed strategy sales 25 Strategy is not exactly the most happenin' genre in videogames, and with a handful of exceptions, such games have hardly cracked the majority of the market and garnered any sort of mainstream app... Look, it's the Shining Force Feather trailer premiered at Tokyo Game Show 9 Well, it takes more than half of the damn video to get there, but there is actually footage of gameplay and fighting in this trailer from the upcoming Shining Force Feather DS, which our own Jim ... Space ships, missiles, and aliens populate these new Endless Universe screens 7 Here’s a gallery full of shiny new screens from Galactic Civilizations II: Endless Universe, the upcoming add-on to Stardock’s space-faring strategy game Galactic Civilizations II: Dr... Destructoid review: Yggdra Union 26 When we first heard that Yggdra Union was coming to the PSP, we were a bit concerned. Why do port of a Game Boy Advance strategy title? How would it a good fit for Sony's PlayStation Portable? Th... The X-COM series comes to Steam on the cheap 19 As of today, X-COM: UFO Defense, X-COM: Terror From the Deep, X-COM: Interceptor, X-COM: Enforcer, and X-COM: Apocalypse are all up for grabs on Steam.Each title will set you back by $4.99 if you... Luminous Arc 2 DS beams a few new screens 6 If these new screens are anything to judge by, the women of Luminous Arc look decidely angry. That could either be a total turn off or really hot to you, depending on how weird you are.This is At... PAX 08: Defense Grid: The Awakening, another tower-defense game, revealed 11 Although I’ve had a long-running love of both turn-based and real-time strategy games, the burgeoning tower-defense genre got no immediate interest from me. Perhaps it’s because I ini... Japan gets Culdcept DS in October, US geeks cross fingers 12 Unfortunately we've heard very little about the upcoming Nintendo DS version of Culdcept to date. The super geeky strategy/card battle game series makes for a great online experience on the Xbox ... Sir, yes sir! New screenshots for Zoids Assault 18 I realize that military-based strategy role-playing games aren't for everyone. Hell, normal strategy RPGs aren't for everyone. But for those of us who do enjoy them, another title for the collect... Galactic Civilizations II: Endless Universe announced 9 What’s that? Galactic Civilizations II, one of my favorite turn-based strategy games in recent years, is getting even more content? What wonderful news to wake up to on a Monday morning.The... Civilization Revolution demo hits XBLA and PSN tomorrow 15 Been waiting with bated breath since Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword for a new taste of Sid Meier's ridiculously acclaimed strategy series? Never fear, the newest title in the series is just ar... Destructoid review: Boom Blox 50 What do you get when the greatest videogame company of all time teams up with the greatest film director of all time for an original project on the Nintendo Wii? That remains to be seen, as Capco... New strategy hotness: Spectral Force 3 screenshots 19 Hey, it's me again: your resident SRPG/JRPG whore. I'm also a bit of an Atlus whore, and that's why I'm sharing with you the new Spectral Force 3 screenshots they just sent us.Spectral Force 3 so... Valkyria Chronicles Japanese promo video shows extended hotness 16 Alright, long video is long, but it does show quite a bit of sexy new footage from Sega's Valkyria Chronicles. I had a chance to play this in Tokyo when it was called Valkyria of the Battlefield... Destructoid review: Patapon 154 Ever since I first heard of Patapon, I knew I had to try it. An infectious, cute, charming mash up of rhythm and strategy, flavored by a simplistic yet thoroughly eye catching artistic style soun... Poison Pink: best ambigious title for a strategy RPG ever 15 Surely there's a Japanese porn director groaning somewhere over the fact that this title was used for a video game rather than his privately envisioned opus about an innocent young girl with a de... Also on XBLA this Wednesday: Commanders: Attack of the Genos 22 It turns out Discs of Tron will not be alone when it hits Xbox Live Arcade this week after all -- Commanders: Attack of the Genos (800 Microsoft Points) has been confirmed for release on Wednesda... Destructoid review: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin 45 Sorry, I'm a little late. Okay, really late. But a game like Advance Wars: Days of Ruin takes some time to cozy up to. It's an Advance Wars game, baby -- you gotta light some candles, get comfort... « 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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