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Strategos is a real-time tactics wargame set in classical antiquity. Command massive armies in large-scale battles featuring over 120 factions and 250+ unit types from across the ancient Mediterranean. Create your own custom engagements or take control of historical battles with thousands of...

Over on swzerocompany.com they have covered everything that has been confirmed up until now for Star Wars: Zero Company. https://swzerocompany.com/what-is-star-wars-zero-company/

As of April 2025, there have been 16 mainline Total War games, and other than a major success with the Warhammer series, the reception has been... less than excellent. The last game, Total War: Pharaoh. was released 18 months ago to 'Mixed' user reviews on Steam, and there has been no additional...

World building in RPG games is very important. You need a living, breathing world to exist for a game to be fun. You also need a dangerous, enemy filled, treacherous world for a game to be interesting. No-one wants an easy life when playing an RPG, right? And developers have seen fit to give us...

Avalanche Software and Warner Bros. Discovery are hiring for a new online multiplayer RPG, and it’s already got people thinking: is Hogwarts Legacy 2 in the works? The job listings mention systems like player progression, in-game economies, skill trees, crafting, and monetization, all pointing...

It's been ages since I played an MMO. I think the last one I played to any great extent was 2008's Age of Conan: Unchained (originally called Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures). I played it all the way until the end game with several characters at level 80 and took part in a number of raids. I...

BioWare was once the gold standard for Western RPGs but is now down to fewer than 100 employees following EA’s latest wave of layoffs. Over 200 people worked on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and Bioware had up to 500 staff at it's peak. Now, a skeleton crew are working on the next Mass Effect game...

I got heavily into gaming in the 90's so I'm probably biased when I say that the late 90's and early 00's were the peak of FPS gaming. Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, and then Half-Life and the ultimate FPS - Half-Life 2. Yeah, I'm biased, but that was the golden age. Modern shooters have lost...

Of all the shooters from history, which game is the most satisfying. This doesn't have to be just in terms of raw firepower, it can be just like how it feels or how it sounds. I have two. One might be a controversial choice so we'll go with that first. Half-Life 2's gravity gun - especially...

What's your go to when playing FPS games? I get that if you're a consoles gamer you're mainly restricted to a joypad, but for us PC gamers do you opt for the convenience of a controller or the fine-grain control from keyboard & mouse? I've always found that trying to get a controller to work on...

After six years in development, Nightdive have finally confirmed a release date for their remaster of the excellent System Shock 2, and that date is June 26th 2025. It is available to pre-order on Steam and over at GOG too (and there's absolutely no difference in the price - £21.59 or whatever...

Romero is a legend in game development. Doom is one of the most influential franchises ever created, and the next entry, Doom: The Dark Ages is just around the corner. But Doom is not just pushing the envelope with new releases, it's going old school too. So if you're still playing DOOM (and...

New leak suggests Marvel Rivals is getting Arakko as its next map, possibly landing with the mid-season update on May 30. According to X0X_LEAK and Miller Ross, lore files hint at Ultron attacking Krakoa, stealing Cerebro, and vanishing to Arakko, setting up the next battleground. In the...

Seems like there’s loads of games on the release radar all the time. Every day they add more. Some great, some … hmm … not-so-great but new games nonetheless. What new games do you have your beady eye on? Two for me: Doom The Dark Ages and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.

Do you remember the first game that kept you awake at night either through playing or thinking about playing? For me it was Star Wars: TIE Fighter. First, the version in 1994 which I borrowed from a mate on floppy disk, and then as the sublime Collector's CD ROM which whacked up the resolution...

Where do you get your reviews from these days and are they any good? I saw a review recently that said that Assassins Creed: Shadows has 'some problems' and then the reviewer awarded it a perfect score. What's going on with that? How can something which has problems be perfect? That just doesn't...

I'll start! Are you ready? "Trophy/achievement hunting is a waste of time." There, I said it! These things are put there to shore up bad games. It's like, if the quality isn't there for me to explore everything in the game, I'm not gonna bother to explore it. Developers know this, and trophies...

How many games have you finished so far this year? One, two, any? Sometimes it's down to the game design. Most open-world, live-service games never end (I'm looking at you Destiny 2!) and that can steal any sense of accomplishment someone like me gets from games. I have replayed Portal and...

In Episode 26 of the Critical Moves Podcast, Al, Nuno, Joe, Tim, Adam, and newcomer Jack gather for a special Q&A session, turning the tables and answering all the burning questions from the community. No debates or themes this time, just unfiltered, honest answers, plenty of banter, and the...

In Episode 25 of Critical Moves, hosts Tim and Al sit down with Brandon Casteel, the lead designer of Tempest Rising, to discuss the game’s long development history, its retro-futuristic aesthetic, and what makes it stand out in the modern RTS landscape. They dive into the mechanics, the...