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Command & Conquer: How Westwood Studios Invented Modern RTS
There is a particular kind of 90s PC magic that you only get when a small studio in Las Vegas decides the next war should be fought over an alien…
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Warcraft 3: The RTS That Built Azeroth and Accidentally Invented MOBAs
If you only ever played World of Warcraft, it is easy to forget that the whole universe used to live inside a real-time strategy game. Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos…
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StarCraft Retrospective: From Launch to Brood War and Beyond
StarCraft dropped in 1998 and somehow still feels like the blueprint for what a real-time strategy game should be. Blizzard took the lessons from Warcraft II, threw out the orcs-and-humans…
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Why StarCraft Mass Recall Is the Best Way to Replay the Original Campaigns
There’s something magical about revisiting the Koprulu Sector the way it first hit us back in 1998. The tension of those early Terran missions, the sheer terror of the Zerg…
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The Ancients Awaken: Everything We Know About ‘The Veti’s Wrath’ Expansion for Tempest Rising
If you have been keeping your eyes glued to the real-time strategy landscape, you already know that Tempest Rising has been a massive breath of fresh air for classic RTS…
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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,…
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Back to the Future: Why Tempest Rising is the RTS Lightning Bolt We’ve Been Waiting For
For a lot of us, the 90s were defined by the golden age of Real-Time Strategy games. We lived for the "Unit Ready" announcements and the thrill of dragging a…
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Steel, Smoke, and Strategy: Atre: Dominance Wars is the RTS Shake-up We’ve Been Waiting For
Let’s be honest for a second because the real-time strategy genre has been in a weird spot lately. For a while, it felt like we were either getting hyper-competitive click-fests…
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The Ultimate Hero’s Journey: Warlords Battlecry III is on of the Best of RPG-RTS Hybrids
Release Date: May 17, 2004 Developer: Infinite Interactive Get It On: GOG The early 2000s saw an absolute explosion of the Real-Time Strategy genre. It was the era of Warcraft…
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“More Gold, Your Majesty!”: Why We’re Still Obsessed with a Kingdom We Can’t Control
Release Date: March 21, 2000 Developer: Cyberlore Studios Get It On: GOG If you grew up gaming in the late nineties or early 2000s, you probably remember the stressful bliss…