The Hundred Years War wasn't a hundred years long and the War of the Roses wasn't over flowers. Lies, all lies, but nonetheless these were two protracted campaigns that make a good historical base for Conquest: ...

Dyson certainly isn't your average real-time strategy game. For one thing it's independently developed, and it's also quite an abstract brain teaser. The setting is an asteroid belt, with a theme of planting trees and growing ...

The three independent developers of Stalin vs Martians must have been big fans of the Command & Conquer: Red Alert series, probably admiring the crazy OTT scenario of Russians tinkering with time, using strange forces like ...

You're cruising through the PC game shelves and you come across yet another real-time strategy game set during WWII and your eyes start to glaze over. Surely this ground has been trampled over so thoroughly that ...

Hotel Giant managed to pass this reviewer by the first time round, and given how tricky some of the on-screen, supposedly-helpful text is to read in this sequel, said reviewer's eyeballs scream with thanks. Why it ...

Who'd have thought that a geeky, turn-based, sci-fi board game played in niche high street stores would have grown to become a powerfully popular computer game franchise with a loyal RTS fanbase? Well, proof of that ...

There are three types of mastermind. One is the real bad guy, sending out his goons to mug, extort, sell drugs and all the rest of it. The other is a legitimate business owner who uses ...

Piracy is a dirty word when it comes to gaming, conjuring up images of dodgy torrents and racks of shiny golden discs containing ill gotten gains. But naturally, not every pirate game is one you've bought ...

Somehow the idea of a cute and cuddly Ninja warrior sounds like a contradiction in terms, but when you learn that this game is based on a much larger collection of cute cartoon figures known as ...

While World War II has proved to be a well-plundered source for computer war gamers over the years, the Great War has largely been ignored. Now this oversight has been adressed by Ageod, which was responsible ...

King's Bounty doesn't concern an epic quest to retrieve the monarch's long lost coconut-flavoured chocolate bar. There are, however, a great many quests to undertake in the game and some of them are definitely slightly silly. ...

Any hardcore real-time strategy gamer who's been hammering the computer keys for a good 12 years knows the huge debt of gratitude that's owed to Command & Conquer for shaping most of the conventions that are ...

When Lowry painted his matchstick men, he probably didn't envisage them romping around a virtual 21st Century battlefield massacring each other with guns and bombs. But that's exactly what happened in Darwinia, the critically acclaimed strategy ...

With the media in an Election frenzy as the American people decide whether they favour Obama or McCain for the nation's top job (though by the time you read this they will have made that decision), ...

Will Wright was the mastermind behind The Sims, the best selling computer game of all time. So naturally, his next big project was going to cause quite a stir in the gaming fraternity. Spore is another ...

The Sims games must surely be in the record books for the most number of expansions ever. As The Sims 2 has aged, it has witnessed bigger content boosts that have added pets, businesses and holidays ...

Revolutions generally involve much unpleasantness and brutal devices that tend to start with the letter G, like gibbets and guillotines. Sid Meier's latest revolution is, however, a far more palatable prospect that doesn't utilise anything so ...

If at first glance you get a strange sense of déjà vu when you look at the box cover for this game, then don't be spooked. Developers World Forge recently released Ancient Wars: Sparta, an RTS ...

It's becoming harder to find a period in history that hasn't been plundered for the latest real-time strategy game, and thankfully developers World Forge shied away from obvious targets like WWII and the Roman Empire. Instead ...

Cities are instruments of torture in many ways; the pavements packed with pushy pedestrians, the air choked with smog and the shopping malls assaulting your ears with the direst strains of elevator music. Matters are possibly ...