It's a great week for fans of strategy games as a number of higher-profile titles release today including BattleTech and now Frostpunk. Both titles are sitting pretty on top of the Steam top-seller list, with the steampunk city builder...

It took me a really long time to dive into the world of BattleTech. Nearly everyone has heard of MechWarrior, the series that exists within the same universe, but ever since the announcement that Harebrained Schemes would be handl...

After a relatively successful Kickstarter campaign that brought in $2.7 million dollars to Harebrained Schemes to boost features, the latest BattleTech/MechWarrior video game, BattleTech, goes live today on the PC. For fans of the universe ...

Well, here's a peculiar and seemingly out-of-nowhere development. Tencent has announced Red Alert Online, an upcoming mobile adaptation of the Command and Conquer: Red Alert series. This is just a cinematic trailer, but the game's official...

Satellite Reign arrived roughly three years ago on PC, and some sci-fi strategy fans really took to it. We don't really have much cyberpunk in our lives these days (it feels like CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 will be in development u...

The sun is about to set on The Banner Saga. More than four years after the original first launched, the conclusion to the trilogy is nearly upon us. Publisher Versus Evil revealed today that The Banner Saga 3 will release on July 24. I...

When we first learned about Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden (still a too-long name), it was with a cinematic trailer that introduced the world but not the gameplay. The duck and pig protagonist duo in some sort of apocalyptic wasteland ...

After one of the first successful video game Kickstarters, Banner Saga has been a shining star for the platform. Not only did Stoic deliver on its promise to give us a memorable strategy game with a beautiful art style, but they also went f...

Mars is dead. The International Mars Mission, a global effort to establish a self-sufficient colony on Earth's nearest neighbor, is dead because of two idiots. The first idiot was Anthony Krillov, an idiot whose foolish, clumsy flailing cau...

Jakub Różalski captured our imaginations with his anachronistic, mech-filled artwork. In the world of 1920+, the machines that fought in the Great War have since become "part of everyday life." Iron Harvest leverages Ró&#...

How do you follow up a game like FTL? The game became such a huge hit in 2012 and showed what a successful Kickstarter could look like. Many people fondly look back at the countless hours lost in space, watching crew members and s...

Gaming's most unlikable protagonists are back. Yes, Hana, Rain, Deke, and Glas have returned from an extended hiatus to wreak havoc and steal stuff in their own inimitable way. Lock and load folks because, some 17 years later, Fear Effect i...

I really admire The Behemoth. The studio has found success time and time again without resorting to sequels, charting a varied course from Alien Hominid to Castle Crashers to BattleBlock Theater. The team's latest, Pit People, lives in yet ...

As I wrote about last year, making a turn-based tactical strategy game invites inevitable comparisons to XCOM. Most developers see it coming and plan accordingly. The next game from Funcom seems as if it's happy to try to piggyback right o...

It feels like The Behemoth's Pit People (simply called Game 4 once upon a time) has been at the last 30 Penny Arcade Expos I've attended. This is probably an exaggeration, but the sentiment still stands -- this game has been...

Bandai Namco held a stream this morning to show off the upcoming Super Robot Wars X, debuting a new trailer and highlighting the cast members and original characters. Firstly: Let's talk about the original characters and the mech. From...

Age of Empires was a fundamental part of my RTS education. Two years before it I was enjoying the futurist spin of Command & Conquer and the fantasy vibes of Warcraft II, but Age of Empires offered up something else entirely -- a middle...

The early-access darling Kerbal Space Program will finally be getting its long awaited Making History expansion on March 13, 2018. Along with including new content, this expansion will bring a "Mission Builder" to the game that allows users...

The minds behind FTL: Faster Than Light are back with a tactical turn-based game in which you'll dispatch mechs to fend off giant monsters. If and when you lose, you'll "send help back through time to save another timeline." I don't need to...

Games Workshop is giving Space Hulk another go this year. The latest adaptation of the board game is Space Hulk: Tactics, a turn-based title from Blood Bowl and Styx maker Cyanide Studio. As usual, you'll manage a squad of hulking Terminato...

Firaxis Games have put out a tweet announcing that intense strategy title XCOM 2 Collection is now available on PC, Mac and Linux, with PS4 and Xbox One editions to follow sometime in the future.For those less-inclined, XCOM 2 sees the Eart...

If you've somehow had your fill of Lizardmen and Dark Elves, Creative Assembly's next Total War game is more grounded -- and it's not far off. Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia, which revolves around the Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans, Welsh...

Stoic is rounding out its tactical Viking trilogy sooner than expected. While the Kickstarter campaign had suggested a December 2018 release for Banner Saga 3, the game is now confirmed for this summer. Along with that spot of good news, t...

Publisher Merge Games and developers Red Hook Studios have announced that tough-as-nails strategy title Darkest Dungeon will be getting a physical release this Spring.The turn-based battle title will be released on high street shelves for P...

Sega have released a new two-minute DLC trailer for upcoming strategy sequel Valkyria Chronicles 4. The exclusive mission is featured as part of the game's Limited Edition release.Joint Operation will see the new band of heroes from VC 4's ...