Kotaku: Petroglyph

Rise of Immortals Will Have 3D Support and Give Away 3D Prizes

Joshua Rivera — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:40:00 EDT

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Rise of Immortals is a free-to-play Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game currently in open beta. The game's full release will hit this summer, and developers Petroglyph games announced today that when it does, it will have full NVIDIA 3D Vision support. More »

Mytheon Open Beta Launches With Fabulous Prizes

Mike Fahey — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:40:00 EDT

Petroglyph's massive multiplayer online action strategy game Mytheon has entered open beta, with a laptop, iPod Touches, and iTunes gift cards up for grabs for those who give the game an early go. More »

A Visual Tour Of Mytheon's Hot Spots

Mike Fahey — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:40:00 EST

Petroglyph and True Games have released a set of screenshots detailing the various environments found in the upcoming online action RPG Mytheon. Let's take a tour of Colchis, The Dominion of Hades, and The Shattered Isle. More »

Panzer Generals Is Back, Yo

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:30:00 EDT

In the turn-based strategy genre, two series (for me, anyways) reign supreme: Advance Wars, and Panzer General. So it's with great delight that I see today that Ubisoft will be bringing the latter back, this time on Xbox Live Arcade. More »

Mytheon Trailer Casts The First Stone

Mike Fahey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:40:00 EDT

The first trailer for Petroglyph's Mythic gives us a bit more of an understanding as to what's actually going on in the online action roleplaying strategy hybrid. More »

Happy Holidays From Petroglyph

Brian Crecente — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:40:00 EST

It may not contain the wittiest banter, but it sure is the prettiest picture of a Christmas tree being teleported into a UFO that I've ever seen. More »

Petroglyph Takes Strategy Online With Mytheon

Mike Fahey — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST

Real-time strategy developer Petroglyph and True Games have just announced Mytheon, which promises to combine the best elements of action, strategy, and RPG gameplay into one massive online game. More »

Universe At War Patch Lets Xbox 360, PC Players Duke It Out

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:00:54 EDT

Sega and Petroglyph's real time strategy sci-fi game Universe At War: Earth Assault was all patched up today, bringing with it an exhaustive list of changes, tweaks and fixes. The most notable? The saucer's build time was reduced from 30 to 28 seconds. Almost as exciting was the addition of Xbox 360 versus PC cross-play in Ranked, Quickmatch and Conquer the World game modes, something that should make it much, much easier to find a game for Universe At War players. More »

Universe At War Demo On Marketplace

Mark Wilson — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Back in Leipzig, McWhertor and I hung out at Sega's booth while Crecente played Universe at War on PC for hours. After a while, he let me take his game for a spin. I immediately blew up a non-replaceable ship. As I may have mentioned before, he was not happy. More »

Console RTSs Are Good For The Genre

Mark Wilson — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:40:41 EST

Petroglyph's Creative Director Adam Isgreen is an RTS veteran, having worked on loads of Command & Conquers and, more recently, Universe at War. But he isn't worried that RTS titles making their way to consoles will in some way dilute the experience. In fact, he believes just the opposite:

...you could look at the transition of RTS from PC to console as "dumbing down" of the genre, but really that's completely inaccurate. The evolution of RTS from PC to console is all about re-discovering the core fun of the genre while stripping away the redundancy, over-complication, and bloat that has been attaching itself to RTS games over the years.

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Work and Play: A Peek Inside the Lives of Gaming's Greatest

Brian Crecente — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:00:32 EST

I've had a pet project I've been working on for years, three of them if my memory is right. It started as a simple idea: You can judge a lot from a person's desk. I bet you could judge just as much from their home entertainment system. So I decided it would be fun to try and track down some pictures from the work desks and home gaming set-ups of the people who work in and cover the video game industry. Simple right? Not so much. More »

Want The Universe At War OST? It's Free!

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:40:45 EST

Looking for a last minute stocking stuffer that won't set you back more than three CD-Rs? Give your loved ones (who are apparently just an afterthought) the Universe At War official soundtrack, which has been released by Petroglyph today for free. Three discs worth of music from the game's three distinct factions is sure to be the perfect soundtrack to your holiday. The OST was composed by Frank Klepacki of Dune II and Command & Conquer fame, so you know it's worth the download. More »

Universe at Peace, From Petroglyph

Brian Crecente — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:00:30 EST

I really like this Petroglyph card, not just because it has a cute remake of the Walkers, one featuring a Santa hat and beard, another turned into a Christmas ornament, and not because they gave their game a clever rename. No, I like this card because I hate Chrismas elves and it looks like they're about to suck it hard. Santa, fortunately, managed to escape while the death of his tiny work force provided a distraction. Ho, Ho, Ho indeed. More »

Universe At War Brings PC, 360 Together

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:40:47 EDT

Sega is bringing cross-platform play to its Petroglyph-developed real time strategy game Universe At War: Earth Assault, adding Games For Windows versus Xbox 360 head-to-head play over Games For Windows Live, a third-party publisher first. Similar to FASA Studios' Shadowrun, the game is planned to have a levelled playing field, giving Xbox 360 RTS players a simple to use control scheme. More »

Sega Announces Universe At War

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:40:44 EST

Sega has announced that they're bringing the Petroglyph developed real time strategy game Universe At War: Earth Assault to the PC later this year. The development house is responsible for Star Wars: Empire at War, the well-received Star Wars RTS title from LucasArts (natch) that hit store shelves last February. More »

Star Wars: Empire at War Goes Gold

lsmith — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:20:27 EST

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Just because I wasn't impressed with it, doesn't mean it's a bad game. I'd like to check out a retail build when it's all said and done—and as of today, it is. Star Wars: Empire of War is officially gold. Empire at War ships Feb. 16, there's a couple of extremely sexy screens after the jump. More »

Hands-On: Star Wars: Empire at War

lsmith — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:40:18 EST

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So, yesterday I tried to track down a download of the LucasArts' RTS Star Wars: Empire at War. The demo has a single mission for the Galactic Campaign and some tutorials. The mission structure has players mass a fleet in Hoth and then head to an asteroid field to battle the Imperials. How does it look and play? Details after the jump. More »

Sega and Petroglyph Pull a Sonic and Tails

lsmith — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:02:57 EDT

No, the Japanese publisher and RTS game makers aren't running around scooping up rings and battling Dr. Robotnik, instead, the two companies have announced a partnership to create an RTS franchise for the PC. More »