This contest puts you in control: Win a Switch key for 911 Operator. My cousin is a firefighter, my sister works as a paramedic, and my brother-in-law is a corpsman. I'm surrounded by people who deal with the stress of making sure people ar...

Maybe the most off-kilter announcement from Microsoft at this year's E3 was Gears Pop! -- a mobile game that's Gears of War by way of Funko Pop. This series that has long been about large muscly men being as masculine as possible...

Fans were stunned after yesterday's announcement of Warcraft III: Reforged. Not only did Blizzard remember that Warcraft was once a strategy game, but they were going much farther in updating the classic than last year's StarCraft: Remaster...

Warcraft III Reforged was just announced at BlizzCon and it set the arena on fire. The game will be heading to PCs in 2019 while a demo is now available on the BlizzCon floor. The demo will feature the "Culling" mission, which is arguably t...

Space Hulk is no stranger to the video game world. It's had multiple iterations that have tried to capture the feeling of the classic Warhammer 40K board game, but most if not all have fallen short. To attempt to right the drifting mass of ...

This contest makes me kinda hungry: Enter for your chance to win a Steam key for Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon's multiplayer beta. Swords and Soldiers 2 debuted exclusively on the Wii U back in 2015. Though met with critical acclaim,...

Giddy up, there's a tactical turn-based strategy game that you'll be able to play while riding your pony on the cattle drive. Forever Entertainment has revealed a Switch port of Creative Forge's Hard West. It's like XCOM by way of the...

Blizzard has announced that Heroes of the Storm will be dropping support for Direct X 9 and 32-bit operating systems. Somewhere out there, a single person is weeping from their circa-2008 PC. If you remember from last year, Blizzard had end...

Creative Assembly made the right call by choosing to focus on the Vampire Coast for its next Total War: Warhammer II expansion. When a mad vampire leads a fleet of undead pirates and giant crabs, you know things are escalating. Today's trai...

The iPad port of Civilization VI turned out well enough that we're also getting a miniaturized iPhone version of the enduring strategy game. If you want to give it a test run, the first 60 turns are free. Aspyr Media is currently charging ...

Dtoid is the best gaming site around -- no contest! Except this contest. Which is for Valkyria Chronicles 4 for Steam. Can you believe that, after a month and a half of giving out free games every single day, I haven't given out a single on...

I like contests. Do you like contests? Enter our contest for Depth of Extinction. Man, this one brings back a painful memory of my gaming youth. We had a computer when I was a kid, and my dad had a copy of one of the old X-Com games (don't ...

Total War: Three Kingdoms will unleash Lu Bu on March 6, 2019. Pre-orders are now available for the game and anyone that does so will receive the "Yellow Turban Rebellion" scenario pack (this will also be available as extra DLC on release)....

Some people like to charge straight into battle, guns blazing, to take out as many foes as they can before going down for the final count. I totally get that -- it's cathartic to run into the fray like a madman and cause mayhem in that shor...

If you were to tell me that your Uncle Who Totally Works At Sega said that Valkyria Chronicles 4, the latest game in the tactical role-playing franchise, was actually developed in 2009 as the original sequel to 2008's Valkyria Chronicles, a...

[Update: As part of today's Nintendo Direct presentation, we got to see the trailer for this exciting new port. You can check it out at the foot of the article. Amazing how the epic title is being scaled down for Nintendo's baby.]The award-...

Let's talk about Artifact. The card-based battler was shown off to the public for the first time last weekend at PAX West, and I got to go hands-on with it during the show and speak with a couple of the game's developers. It's significant m...

Japanese merchandising company Chara-ani has released the debut trailer for their double pack of '90s strategy RPGs Langrisser I & II, which are currently being remade for release on PS4 and Nintendo Switch in 2019.The short preview sho...

Announced for a Japanese release earlier this year, Sega confirmed at its PAX West 2018 panel today that the original Valkyria Chronicles will be heading to Switch in the West. Coming out on October 16 (not even a month after the launch of ...

Earlier this week, Japanese merchandisers Chara-ani announced the surprising news that the classic early '90s strategy RPGs, Langrisser and Langrisser II, are to be remade for PS4 and Nintendo Switch.The Langrisser series, which began way b...

Ubisoft Blue Byte is heading to the 19th century for its upcoming city builder Anno 1800. Previously dated for winter 2018, the historical game has now settled into a February 26, 2019 launch on PC. It should be a nice break from the recent...

For everyone who thought they had an excuse when I asked them why they don't play grand strategies, think again! This morning ahead of Gamescom, Paradox Interactive announced that its runaway hit Stellaris would be the first grand strategy ...

If I was a soldier during an ancient era where they used the "wooden figures on a drawn out map to show our battle plan" concept I'd definitely sneak in and play with them like toys from time to time. I love miniatures, which explains why I...

[Update: The demo should be rolling out today on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Valkyria Chronicles 4 is now available to pre-order digitally ahead of its release on September 25. Huzzah!]We are bearing down on the Western release of Se...

The Banner Saga began as an inkling of a Kickstarter in 2014 from Stoic, a studio with just a few people under its banner at the time. Slowly gaining a strong fanbase over the years, The Banner Saga has now evolved into a three-part story o...