jim whitson Jim Whitson is the campaign designer for Total War: Warhammer at Creative Assembly. This isn’t the first Total War game he’s worked on, but it is the first one he’s worked on that includes bats, zombies and a faction called Chaos. The most refreshing thing about Total War: Warhammer is that, instead of commandeering...
Cannon fodder Adding to that blandness, each faction’s 15 units look almost identical, although the Post-Humans’ general durability and the Substrate’s overall mobility nicely translate into vastly different strategies. And there’s an advantage to those limited units: were there any more, they’d easily get lost in Ashes’ controlled chaos. Ashes is all about piling hundreds...
Image from CS:GO Austin Dreamhack site. It’s an interesting balance this weekend, as Blizzard’s biggest esports ramp up for some high-level competition while Valve’s largest games both have qualifiers for huge tournaments in May. Hearthstone and Starcraft II have international tournaments held in Europe in the form of the second Truesilver Championship and the Gold Series...
Starcraft’s community has come together to solve a series of puzzles in an ARG promoting the upcoming Nova Missions pack — and unlocked some bonuses for its hard work. There’s a huge, complex, hard-to-read explanation of every step of the ARG over on Team Liquid, and after all the hard work the community has been...
I like what I’ve seen of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada so far, but the new “Orks” trailer is far and away my favorite. The previous teasers, for the Chaos and Imperium fleets, featured ominous, orchestral music, and urgent narration espousing their star-smashing might. The Ork trailer, on the other hand, is pretty much all WAAAGH! The...
Sesame Street has ensured that I will never be able to take Total War: Warhammer’s Vampire Counts seriously, no matter how unspeakably evil they are. Necromancers are a different matter. I don’t know why, really, especially since they’re a lesser form of wickedness than vampires, but they give me the straight-up heebie-jeebies. Maybe it’s because...
It might not be the highlight in the Total War calendar, but from March 24, Total War Battles: Kingdom will invite you to engage in light cross-platform strategy on Steam and the usual mobile platforms. Total War Battles: Shogun came to PC after it arrived on mobile and proved itself a competent strategy game, if a...
You like free stuff, right? Sure you do. And so allow me to direct your attention to the Bundle Stars website, where they’re offering Steam keys for the RTS Planetary Annihilation, which normally sells for $30/£23, for free. “Free” does not mean “without effort,” of course, and you will have to jump through a few...
To speak of the ‘death’ of a genre is always a bit ridiculous, but real-time strategy as traditionally conceived has certainly seen better days. If the genre were a round of deathmatch we’d be well into the final third, with all resources tapped, the majority of key bases flattened and depleted armies scattered across the...
The spires-n-skulls in space strategy sim Battlefleet Gothic: Armada will, barring unforeseen delays, soon be upon us. In fact, the multiplayer beta, available to all who preorder, went live today. And that means that this is probably a good time to take a look at the system requirements. This is what you need: OS: Windows...
