I was sold on Taur, a tower defense game about a literal laser-firing tower, in a single screenshot. It's a weekend-eating strategy title about keeping hordes of robots, tanks, and bombers at bay, and while its minimalist aesthetic might se...

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord has narrowed down its launch window to a launch day, a moment that's many, many long years in the making. The sprawling medieval RPG is releasing on March 31, 2020. This should come as no surprise to Mount &...

Before We Leave is a winning concept for a peaceful city-building game. It's a relaxing take on games like Anno and A Kingdom for Keflings in which you'll harvest resources from a lost civilization, explore and expand to neighboring islands...

Blizzard has had a rough several years. It needs to hunker down and completely rethink its gameplan, especially after making mistake after mistake...after mistake. For some, Warcraft III: Reforged is another blunder to add to that pile...

During a live stream on Friday morning, Bandai Namco released a new trailer for SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays that revealed not only the contents of the third content pack due in February, but also the final one scheduled for March. Fur...

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden captured hearts and minds in 2018 with the way it blended smart tactical shooting, real-time stealth/ambush mechanics, and a cast of gruff wise-cracking animals. It was XCOM by way of Animal Farm, m...

I love my Nintendo Switch (who doesn't?), and I have a real soft spot for tower defense games. Whenever those two interests happen to intersect, it's bound to be a good day. Today certainly is. Ironhide Game Studio is bringing its excellent...

The Epic Games Store has a pair of popular board games up for grabs until February 13, 2020. If you've always been curious to try Carcassonne or Ticket to Ride (or you like the games enough to want to play them digitally), you can grab both...

Valve is making it official: Dota Underlords, their first-party Auto Chess game, is coming to Steam on February 25. This announcement coincides with a major patch drop, introducing a new character into the mix named Enno, the Scavenger King...

When Sega's Yakuza: Like a Dragon launched in Japan on January 16, word came in that the seventh mainline entry to the popular franchise had only shifted around 157,000 physical copies. In contrast to the 218,000 copies sold at launch by pr...

Warcraft III has aged like a fine wine. It wasn't just the progenitor of the MOBA genre (which still exists in a thriving state), it also rules as a standalone strategy game. Its marriage of RTS army macro-management and hero micro-manageme...

Try as you might, you can't escape FTL: Faster Than Light – not for good. One decent run is all it takes to reel you in and remind you just how potent Subset Games' ship-managing roguelike title can be. In 2020, Subset is still breath...

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics is coming out soon enough. Developed by BonusXP, the game takes a decidedly SRPG approach, giving the player control of a scrappy Gelfling resistance as they battle the evil Skesis: the bird-like ...

When I woke up this morning, I didn't expect to spend a chunk of my afternoon watching AI-driven teams duke it out in Final Fantasy Tactics while hundreds of Twitch viewers placed bets on the outcome. What have I gotten myself into? And how...

It looks like Konami is about to throw its hat into the "monster-battler" genre, with the reveal of a new game, tentatively titled Solomon Program. The oddly-monikered project was revealed in a new issue of Japanese publication Monthly Coro...

Koei Tecmo has released the opening movie for its upcoming strategy warfare title Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV, which launches on PS4 and PC in the west February 28.The majestic clip features several of the officers that make up the ga...

[Update: In a rare move, For the King is no longer going to be the free game for the week of January 9. Instead, Sundered Eldritch Edition will take that spot. We have a review for it and it's live right now.] In April o...

To say it’s been a rough generation for Gundam games would be putting it lightly. Despite starting strong with SD Gundam G Generation Genesis and Gundam Breaker 3, every subsequent game seemed to get worse and worse. This was due to b...

FTL: Faster Than Light is free on the Epic Games Store, but you do not have to be faster than light to claim it. You do have to be reasonably prudent, though. For 24 hours (but even less time than that when you're reading this), Subset...

You know a game is good when the mere mention of its name compels you to boot it up for "just a quick round." That's how I feel about Into the Breach, the turn-based tactical mech title from FTL creator Subset Games. It's free right now on ...

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is enjoying a relatively quiet back half of 2019. Although it had a relatively explosive debut Nintendo has been taking it easy with DLC since its July release, which has mostly been low key in the form of outfits ...

Gears is about to look a lot different. Specifically, overhead instead of behind the shoulder. Splash Damage's Gears of War spin-off is set to launch next spring. Gears Tactics is a turn-based strategy game rather than a third-pe...

I can't let us tumble into 2020 without remembering Anno 1800 – especially while it's temporarily free. Ubisoft is hosting a free-play event from December 11 at 5:00am PT to December 18 at 9:00am PT. During that time, the free version...

When I think of winter gaming, I think of video games with a propensity for eating whole afternoons like it's no big deal. Management titles, sims, strategy games – you know the kind. Once you get in there and untangle their inner wor...

It's a little bit Earth Defense Force, a little bit Command & Conquer, and a little bit schlocky 90s cinema. There are a billion bugs, and you're going to exterminate them all. Starship Troopers is being adapted into a real-time s...