real-time strategy Archives

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

Reviews

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…

Chris March 8, 2026

Gaming News

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…

Chris February 16, 2026

Retro-Games

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…

Chris January 29, 2026

Retro-Games

“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…

Chris January 28, 2026