The coder of iOS strategy game Hard Lines is locked in dispute with publisher Spilt Milk Studios over the rights to the game. Nicoll Hunt accuses Spilt Milk MD Andrew Smith of withholding his share of sales revenue unless he agrees to give up his rights to the game. Speaking to IndieGames, both parties give their perspective on the dispute. More >
Win or lose, your fate in this fascinating strategy game lies with the cards.
Minesweeper receives a very honourable reworking in today's free game showcase.
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Chris Donlan plays an inspiringly fresh tactical game in which nuclear war meets Tetris.
Risk meets Scrabble in Denki's charming and thoughtful XBLA effort.
'Help' and 'train' among words forbidden in online sessions of Denki's multiplayer word game.
3Dundee-based Denki has revealed that Quarrel was "rejected by almost every game publisher in the world" and called on gamers to prove them wrong on the day its multiplayer word game launches on Xbox Live Arcade. In a post on the company blog, managing director Colin Anderson admits that Quarrel was actually rejected twice, and even three times, by some publishers. The struggle to strike a publishing deal caused Denki to restructure and lay off a number of staff in April 2010. Quarrel was eventually released for iPhone last August. More >
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A compulsive iOS turn-based strategy that may be a few updates from greatness.
The man who created X-COM on what he thinks of Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown remake and the future of turn-based strategy.
2Like most PC games, Ubisoft titles carry a limit on the number of machines on which they can be installed. However, Guru3D has found that the limit also applies to hardware components. The site set out to perform one of its regular VGA and graphics performance analyses on the recently released Anno 2070, testing the game on two graphics cards in three different PCs. That proved impossible when, after activating the game on each rig, he switched graphics cards only to be met with an activation prompt and subsequent message that he had used his entire allocation. More >
22K Marin's FPS reboot of the revered XCOM has been delayed until next year, according to reports. The claim comes from the latest issue of Game Informer, reported by IGN. It appears that 2K has decided that the Firaxis-developed strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown, announced earlier this month and set for a 2012 release, is a better way to reintroduce the series. More >
Sid Meier's Firaxis Games has announced XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a strategy game in the mould of the Julian Gollop classics to be released this autumn for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. The announcement comes from Game Informer magazine, and is billed as a "full-on strategy game" in stark contrast to the FPS reboot in development at 2K Marin, whose president Christoph Hartmann memorably said last year: "Strategy games are just not contemporary … times are changing." More >
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Tough Guy Studios reinvents Frogger for the touchscreen generation.
The year of the shooter.
Forget the branding - Ubisoft’s real-time card battler is smart enough to survive by itself.
1Casual gaming king PopCap has released Bejeweled for Google's Chrome browser, with Plants Vs Zombies and Peggle to be available on Android Market later this week. More >
Electronic Arts has announced Command & Conquer Generals 2, promising to take the beloved strategy series "back to its roots". The game, announced at the Spike VGA event on Saturday night, runs on DICE's Frostbite 2 engine, is exclusive to PC and will be released in 2013. It's being developed by Victory Games, the strategy studio EA set up in February which is now part of the BioWare label and has been renamed BioWare Victory. More >
Art game indie Jason Rohrer brings industrial espionage to the DS.
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Toucan stowaways, Rasta cats and epic orbital battles: Flotilla proved that even the small can think big.
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Formerly known as Trenched, Double Fine's mech game finally gets a European release. We hunker down to see how it fares.