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Imperium Eternal: Hands-On with the Spiritual Successor to Empire Earth

If you have spent the last decade staring longingly at your old discs of Empire Earth or Rise of Nations, wondering why nobody makes massive, epoch-spanning real-time strategy games anymore,…

Chris May 30, 2026

Retro-Games

Heavy Metal Masterpiece: Looking Back at MechWarrior 3 and Pirate’s Moon

Release Date: MechWarrior 3: June 1, 1999 Pirate's Moon: December 3, 1999 Developer: Zipper Interactive Back in the late nineties, the PC gaming landscape was an absolute wild west of…

Chris May 17, 2026

Retro-Games

Building an Empire One Rail at a Time: The Timeless Brilliance of Transport Tycoon

Release Date: October 1994 Developer: Chris Sawyer Get It On: GOG There is something strangely hypnotic about watching a tiny digital train chug across a pixelated landscape, carrying a load…

Chris March 14, 2026

Gaming News

The Fog of Command: How Strategos Redefines the Ancient Wargame

Strategos, developed by Strategos Games and published by MicroProse Software, is a bold entry into an ever-evolving landscape of digital wargaming, where few titles attempt to bridge the gap between…

Chris January 19, 2026

Retro-Games

The Game That Changed Everything: A Tribute to Julian Gollop’s X-COM: UFO Defense

Release Date: March 1994 (EU) / May 1994 (NA) Developer: Mythos Games / MicroProse Get It On: GOG In the summer of 1994, a game arrived on the DOS platform…

Chris January 8, 2026

Gaming News

The Iron Price of Profit: MicroProse and Apoc Unveil ‘Steel Bounty’

On December 18, 2025, legendary publisher MicroProse—the studio behind classics like MechWarrior 2—officially announced Steel Bounty. Developed by indie studio Apoc, this new title is being hailed as a spiritual…

Chris December 21, 2025