War of the AI

At PAX Australia last year, NGD Studios executive producer Randy King told me that Wargaming acquired the Master of…

A retrospective look back at one of the all-time great strategy games

As discussed previously, they’re more like super-terrorists. And they just did something shocking in the latest…

From the very first game in the Civilization series through to today, India’s supposedly-peaceful leader Gandhi has…

You can judge a first person shooter almost entirely on the strengths of its shotguns. A good video game shotgun is…

Metal Gear is a series that’s (at least partly) about giant mecha and Cold War drama. It may be pure fantasy, but in…

Fire Emblem Fates is a soap opera strategy game. You’ll spend as much time agonizing over battlefield tactics as you…

There was a good chunk of time there when the Total War series was one of the best things on the PC. Its combination…

Puzzle Quest meets Magic: The Gathering. If any combination of puzzle RPG and other thing could restore my faith in…

Creative Assembly, the guys behind the Total War series—some of my favourite games—have along with publisher Sega…