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Fleet Commander: the Best Star Wars Game to Never Exist

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…not officially anyway. Arthur Nishimoto, a graduate student at the University of Illinois’ Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), is currently working on a touch-based real-time strategy game based on the Star Wars… universe. The rest of us will probably never be able to play it though, mostly because it’s for research,

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July 14th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Planet M.U.L.E.: Rts Games Minus the Fighting

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Released in 1983, M.U.L.E.… is a classic video game developed by Ozark Softscape and published by EA.  The title refers to the robot worker that players buy in order to operate factories – the letters stand for Multiple Use Labor Element, and the M.U.L.E. looks, well, like a robot mule.

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March 2nd, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Starcraft 2 Gives Noobs the Gift of Destructible Rocks

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There are rocks blocking the way, reports Ars Technica’s Ben Kuchera from the beta testing battlefield of the highly anticipated RTS StarCraft 2…. These destructible rocks have 2000 hit points and intentionally block chokepoints or base entrances in order to prevent, or at least discourage early game rushing, since

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February 21st, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Command & Conquer the Tiberian Saga for Free!

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“He who does not look back will never reach his destination.” So goes an old saying we have here. It doesn’t make sense (or at least my translation doesn’t), nevertheless it is appropriate for today’s gaming news: EA has made the classic Command & Conquer Tiberian Saga… available for free

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February 15th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Half Minute Hero for the Psp: the Twitter of Video Games

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RPGs are traditionally long and epic in scale for lots of good reasons, but a lot of RPGs have elements that add unnecessary length to the gameplay, like unskippable walls of text, unnecessarily slow-ass modes of transport and/or huge maps, quests with insane requirements, and of course the grinding. Oh…

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September 25th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

Zerg Cake is Disgustingly Accurate [Starcraft Bakery]

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Gearfuse spotted this mind-blowingly detailed cake, featuring a budding Zerg base from the money printing military sci-fi RTS Starcraft…. Everything you can expect from a Zerg base a minute into the game is there – mineral nodes,a gas geyser, a hatchery, drones, and a couple of larvae, all on

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June 25th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

Strategy Games May Help Conquer Aging

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This has got to be the best news for brain health since ever…: playing strategy games might help prevent some ill effects due to aging. Your desire to control an animated portion of a tiny world (with your iron fist, naturally) just may be your saving grace in your

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December 15th, 2008 by: Alisha K.

Microsoft Announces New Halo Rts: Halo Wars

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In a surprise announcement from this year’s X06 show in Barcelona, Microsoft revealed a new Halo real time strategy game for the Xbox 360.

Halo Wars is expected to provide us with a unique take on the familiar Halo universe. In Halo Wars, you’ll take command of human UNSC armies…

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September 27th, 2006 by: Technabob

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