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Speed Freeks: A Warhammer 40K Vehicle Brawler With More Noise Than Traction

Speed Freeks is a multiplayer-only vehicle combat game set in the Warhammer 40K universe, built around the Orks and their...
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Domination

Wargaming.net had a problem with names. Their first game was called Massive Assault. The follow-up was Massive Assault Network. The...
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Medieval II: Total War

Medieval II: Total War arrived in November 2006 as something the series hadn’t produced before and hasn’t quite managed since:...
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Jake Solomon had been trying to make this game for nine years before it shipped. He joined Firaxis in the...
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VGA Planets

Tim Wisseman was working as a lumberjack in the mountains near Bass Lake, California when VGA Planets took off. He’d...
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Command and Conquer: Generals and Zero Hour

Westwood Studios closed on March 31, 2003. Command & Conquer: Generals had shipped on February 11. The studio that built...
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Block Fortress 2: Brilliant Foundation, Still Under Construction

Block Fortress 2 hits you with a strange mix of nostalgia and ambition. It’s the kind of game that feels...
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX

By 2003, Koei had been making Romance of the Three Kingdoms games for eighteen years. The series had shipped eight...
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Star Wars: Rebellion

Star Wars: Rebellion won GameSpot’s Most Disappointing Game of 1998. That’s not a great starting point for a retrospective, but...
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Dragon Force

Dragon Force has a stranger origin story than the game itself lets on. Development began at J-Force, a studio founded...
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Pacific General

The 5-Star General series existed because Panzer General (1994) sold better than SSI expected and spawned a production line. Allied...
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Sid Meier’s Colonization

Brian Reynolds joined MicroProse in 1991 as a programmer on graphic adventure games. Colonization started as something he worked on...
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