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Falling Frontier Dev Update: Combat Overview Hi all, I wanted to take some time to give you a preview of what combat will look like in Falling Frontier. If you happened to read my development update from November, you know that the combat system has gotten a lot of development attention, and...

Tempest Rising could have easily been C&C 5. It carries the DNA proudly. We interviewed the game designer and he was unapologetic about comparisons made to Westwood's classics. That interview is here:

Hyperwar has been on my radar for over a year now. We covered it back in November 2024: https://criticalmovespodcast.com/hyperwar-ushering-in-a-new-age/ The demo for the game has just been released. You can find it here: Fried of the Pod, Perfilozof, covered the game in a recent video...

They're not rumours anymore mate:

I guess that's the point of putting a game in a real world setting. It should match the tension or its not doing what its supposed to do.

This looks like it could be pretty smart and a interesting addition to the city builder genre. It's like a historical, colonial setting and I just love the art style. Looks like Anno 1800 but cute. Trailer:

I don't really like WWII as a game setting. I don't know, I just never really enjoyed the feel of it. I prefer science fiction titles or alternate history. I played a bit of Company of Heroes, but the only WWII RTS I've spent any amount of time in is R.U.S.E. It has some really cool, really...

I have so much love for this game. The original was probably the main reason I got into gaming in a big way. And the total conversion is superb!

We've talked about this on the podcast a few times. It seems like a lot of games are abandoning campaigns and focusing purely on multiplayer despite evidence that the typical RTS gamer wants a campaign first and foremost. I asked the question on Reddit a couple of weeks ago and the results are...

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I played Terra Invicta last night for the first time and what a mindjob it is! It's probably the most dense and complex game I've ever played. I thought Stellaris was complex when I first started, but it's nothing compared to Terra Invicta. Have you tried it? It's a firm favourite amongst a...

Welcome to the community, Malcolm.

🔥 The Community-Driven Development Revolution Jack interviews the Beyond All Reason community manager PtaQ and game designer Tim, exploring how passionate volunteers transformed a Total Annihilation mod into a standalone epic-scale RTS that's "ruined other strategy games" for its creators. They...

🔥 When Developers Move On: Community Preservation Adam, Nuno, and Jack examine how passionate communities refuse to let classic strategy games die, transforming abandoned titles through mods, custom servers, and complete engine recreations that often surpass the original developer's work. They...