Posts Tagged ‘TBS’

Horizon is Alive and Kicking – Close to Feature Complete! By Adam Solo on July 12th, 2012 at 9:02 pm Recently the Horizon devs have announced in their forums to be "very close to feature complete (end of the alpha stage)". Category: News & Announcements 9 comments

Endless Space Review By Keith Turner on July 10th, 2012 at 1:42 pm Endless Space is a 4X turn-based space strategy game consisting of up to 8 unique races, each striving to obtain victory over the rest of the galaxy. Category: Game Reviews 42 comments

Endless Space is Now Officially Available! By Adam Solo on July 4th, 2012 at 2:43 pm Amplitude Studio's space TBS 4X game Endless Space is now officially available for digital download on Steam. A retail release is targeted for August 24th, 2012. Category: News & Announcements 19 comments

Endless Space Giveaway Contest – 10 Emperor Edition Keys! [CLOSED] By Adam Solo on July 3rd, 2012 at 6:04 pm To commemorate the tomorrow's release the good folks of Amplitude Studios have sent us 10 keys of their game Endless Space to offer to the Space Sector readers and fans. Category: Contests 355 comments

Beyond Beyaan Preview By Adam Solo on April 17th, 2012 at 4:36 pm Beyond Beyaan is a 4X turn-based space strategy game that is heavily inspired in the Master of Orion series, especially by the original MoO game. Category: Game Previews 6 comments

Interview with Amplitude Studios on Endless Space By Adam Solo on March 26th, 2012 at 6:07 am Endless Space is an exciting new 4X space game that seems to have it all to succeed. Here is an interview we did with Romain de Waubert, Creative Director of Endless Space. Category: Game Previews, Interviews 13 comments

Endless Space – A New 4X Space Game by Amplitude Games By Adam Solo on March 7th, 2012 at 6:28 am Heads up people, a new 4X space game will be arriving at town, soon. Endless Space is its name and it sounds like a very promising title currently under development by Amplitude Studios. Category: Game Previews, News & Announcements 26 comments

Starbase Orion Gets a Major Update By Adam Solo on February 28th, 2012 at 7:57 am On October 2011 Chimera Software released a 4X space title for the iOS family of devices. Now, Starbase Orion get's a big update (v1.1), already available in the App Store. Category: Game Patches, News & Announcements 0 comments

Interview with Novacore Studios on Legends of Pegasus By Adam Solo on February 7th, 2012 at 11:13 am I got in touch with the developers at Novacore Studios in order to know more about their upcoming 4X space title Legends of Pegasus. Here is what Andre Overhagen (Novacore's CEO) had to say about their game. Category: Game Previews, Interviews 34 comments

Sword of the Stars II: Lords of Winter Review By Adam Solo on January 30th, 2012 at 2:29 pm Three months after release (more than the producers had announced they needed to put the game in a playable state), I'm writing Sword of the Stars II's review. Category: Game Reviews 22 comments

XCOM: Enemy Unknown vs Xenonauts – The Debate Starts By Adam Solo on January 21st, 2012 at 4:11 am On one side there's X-COM inspired Xenonauts,produced by Goldhawk Interactive. On the other side there's Take-Two/2K/Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Who wins? We'll see this fall 2012. Category: Game Previews, Games Under Development 16 comments

Horizon is Back on Track and Needs Your Help Too By Adam Solo on January 3rd, 2012 at 6:42 am I'm excited to share with you that the L3O team has announced that they will resume development of their 4X space title, Horizon. Category: News & Announcements 8 comments

UFO Online: Tactical 3D MMO for Your Browser By Adam Solo on December 19th, 2011 at 11:20 am UFO Online is a new sci-fi browser-based MMO developed by Gamigo, that is obviously inspired in the turn-based tactics X-COM series (UFO: Enemy Unknown, X-COM Terror from the Deep among other titles). Category: Game Previews 0 comments

Strategy vs. Tactics in Video Games – A Small Essay By Adam Solo on December 16th, 2011 at 4:12 pm It's not only a question of scale but also a question of actions involved. While the strategist deals more with thinking ahead, planning and scheming the tactician deals with situation analyses and execution with what is provided to him. Category: Ideas & Concepts 13 comments

Starships Combat Conundrums – Realism vs. Simplification By bertipa on December 7th, 2011 at 11:47 am My personal preference is always toward realism but at a certain point, perhaps ironically, reality strikes and simplification are needed to have a playable game that can be developed in this decade. Category: Game Design, Ideas & Concepts 11 comments

Sword of the Stars 2: Lords of Winter – First Impressions By Adam Solo on November 15th, 2011 at 6:11 pm Ok folks it's worse than I thought, Sword of the Stars 2 is currently unplayable. There's plenty of good and even great stuff on SotS2 but there's also plenty of horrible stuff as well. Category: Game First Impressions, Game Previews 36 comments

Starbase Orion Review By Kyle Rees on November 5th, 2011 at 2:38 pm Starbase Orion has undeniably achieved its goals of providing an experience similar to Master of Orion with better Multiplayer. This is great news for 4x gamers on the iOS as this genre is still rare on the Apple App store. Category: Game Reviews 26 comments