A demo for the upcoming Men of War: Assault Squad, an RTS based on the WW2 military clashes, was released today by Lace Mamba and 1C Company. It features the single player campaign introductory level focused on the Pacific War battles. Upon completion of this level, players will be allowed to also try a skirmish mission set in the European Theater. According to Lace Mamba Global the release date for the game is set on April 22, 2011, in UK, Australia, New Zealand, the Benelux countries and Greece.

Men of War: Assault Squad comes to complement its already highly popular and critically acclaimed predecessor … More

A sequel to the original installment released in 2000 is finally out. If there were prizes given out for originality and innovative design, I’m sure the Majesty series would at least be mentioned as a nominee. Nowadays it’s hard to find a game that attempts to offer something new and if that game is an RTS then the surprise is many times bigger than in the case of other games genre. That’s because the first thing that comes to mind when mimicking strategic warfare in games is that you can’t improve something that has its current form based on centuries of evolution and development. But the truth is that you can, especially if you do no lose sight of the fact that a game should include the element of fun, something the cold reality which functions as inspiration might lack. So instead of using … More

The eternal war, with fanatic supporters on each side, each more convinced than the other of the eternal and obvious supremacy of the favored platform. Whenever they clash, gamers of all shapes, sizes and skills rally under one banner or the other, endless streams of binary blood flow in rivers and forums moderators have nervous breakdowns. …Why? I mean, apart from our probably natural and most certainly healthy need to argue over every single little thing, why do we do it? What supports this conflict and what exactly generated it? … More