Neowin News Feed for: Rts

Game of Thrones is getting a real-time strategy game on PC: War For Westeros

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:04:02 +0000

PC gamers will be able to fight for Westeros in 2026 in real-time strategy battles in a brand-new Game of Thrones game. The title features all of the major Houses as well as the Night King's forces. Read more...

Stormgate developer Frost Giant Studios is looking for fans to invest in the developer

John Callaham — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:28:01 +0000

Frost Giant Studios, who is making the upcoming PC RTS game Stormgate, is preparing to ask anyone if they would like to invest in the developer to support the game with an initial reservation bonus. Read more...

A look back at when Microsoft released a joystick that looked like a PC mouse for RTS games

John Callaham — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 15:00:01 +0000

The Microsoft SideWinder Strategic Commander was technically a joystick, but it was made specifically for playing real time strategy games and it look very much like a large PC mouse. Read more...

Company of Heroes 3 brings its RTS action to PlayStation and Xbox consoles in May

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:36:01 +0000

Real-time strategy fans on consoles will soon be able to jump into Company of Heroes 3. Relic Entertainment has announced a May launch date for the console edition, which has full controller support. Read more...

Company of Heroes 3 is coming to Xbox and PlayStation with controller support

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 06:26:01 +0000

Company of Heroes is coming to consoles for the first time, with the upcoming third entry in the popular real-time strategy franchise hitting Xbox and PlayStation consoles sometime in 2023. Read more...

Company of Heroes 3 hit with three-month delay as Relic focuses on polish

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:26:02 +0000

Upcoming WW2-set real-time strategy experience Company of Heroes 3 has been hit with a delay that pushes it out to 2023. Relic will be focusing solely on polish and gameplay with the extra time. Read more...

Dynasties of India expansion announced for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:12:01 +0000

Age of Empires II fans are gaining even more content to consume soon with the Dynasties of India expansion, which brings new campaign missions, multiplayer civilizations, and more to the classic RTS. Read more...

Company of Heroes 3 pre-alpha returns with another week of free access

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:46:02 +0000

Relic Entertainment is continuing its Company of Heroes 3 'COH-Development' program with another pre-alpha session. This one is also running for a week and pre-loads are available now. Read more...

Sony and RTS jointly purchase the Evolution Championship Series

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:36:01 +0000

Sony Interactive Entertainment and RTS, an esports company, joined forces to acquire the Evolution Championship Series. Known better as Evo, the annual competition focuses on fighting video games. Read more...

Total War: Warhammer III announced by Creative Assembly, coming this year

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:48:02 +0000

The Total War: Warhammer trilogy of Creative Assembly is completing this year, with the third game in the popular turn-based and real-time strategy series heading for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Read more...

Get this Build a Strategy Game Development Bundle for only $39.99

News Staff — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:46:01 +0000

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Hands-On Game Development Bundle: Make Your Own Games for only $34.99

News Staff — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:46:01 +0000

With today's highlighted deal, get 12 hours of quick, practical instructions on using various platforms and programming languages for making your own games at 98% off via Neowin Deals. Read more...

Warcraft III: Reforged comes out January 28, 2020, Blizzard confirms

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 23:10:01 +0000

After quite a bit of waiting and speculation, Blizzard has confirmed that Warcraft III: Reforged, its long awaited remaster of the 2002 RTS title, will be made available January 28, 2020. Read more...

Ashes of the Singularity Escalation v2.65 has hit the battlefield

John Keefer — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:22:02 +0000

The new update brings improvements to the campaign and in-game menu, as well as numerous tweaks under the hood, including rebalanced maps. Stardock also teased new info about the upcoming DLC as well. Read more...

Blizzard will make StarCraft II free-to-play this month

Florin Bodnarescu — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:26:01 +0000

At its BlizzCon 2017 event in Anaheim, Blizzard has announced that it's making the original Wings of Liberty campaign and other parts of StarCraft II free-to-play later this month. Read more...

Galactic Civilizations III gets Steam Midweek Madness Sale

John Keefer — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:16:01 +0000

If you love a good strategy game and haven't had a chance to play Stardock's Galactic Civilizations III yet, now is a good time. The game and its associated content are on sale through October 27. Read more...

Vulkan support added to massive-scale RTS, Ashes of the Singularity

Brad Wardell — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:06:02 +0000

Stardock has released a new update to its popular real-time strategy game, Ashes of the Singularity to add new features, maps and support for the new graphics API, Vulkan. Read more...

Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition review - Star Wars meets XCOM

Usama Jawad — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 17:00:01 +0000

Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is a turn-based strategy title that offers quite a lot of gameplay value, bears striking resemblance to XCOM, and features exhilarating battles in space. Read more...

Blizzard Entertainment announces StarCraft: Remastered, releasing this summer

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:16:03 +0000

StarCraft and its Brood War expansion are getting a remaster this summer, with upgraded visuals and audio while keeping the gameplay untouched. The originals are going free later this week. Read more...

TechSpot: Homeworld Remastered Collection Graphics & CPU Performance

Julio Franco — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 09:49:07 +0000

The Homeworld Remastered Collection brings high-res textures and models, new visual effects, recreated cinematic scenes, and support for HD, Ultra HD and 4K resolutions. Read more...

Microsoft Xbox head hints strongly at new RTS Xbox One game reveal

John Callaham — Sun, 18 May 2014 22:56:02 +0000

Microsoft Xbox head Phil Spencer gave some more hints about the company's E3 2014 plans and hinted strongly that we could see a new real time strategy console game for the Xbox One. Read more...

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion sells 100,000 units

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:04:40 +0000

Stardock has announced that their real-time strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion has broken previous sales records for the company by selling 100,000 copies in the first month on sale. Read more...

Total War: Rome II officially announced

John Callaham — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:51:23 +0000

Sega has now confirmed that it will release Total War: Rome II, the sequel to the 2004 historical RTS game from developer The Creative Assembly. It will be released in 2013. Read more...