Game Developer Spotlight: Paradox Interactive
Naval War: Arctic Circle is a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game where the player battles enemy naval and aerial forces for power and ultimate world domination. The game play takes place along the Norwegian and British coast, through Iceland and Greenland all the way to the North Americas and the North West Passage.
Genre: Grand Strategy - RTS / Developer: Paradox Interactive / Release Date: January 17, 2012
Platforms: Windows PCJoin, champion, and unite the three pirate factions: Pirates, Corsairs and Buccaneers. You must ultimately leverage this unity in all-out war against the evil Pirates of Black Cove. Manage and develop parts of three strongholds and visit them to pick up faction and storyline missions.
Visit the Alchemist to find out what special ingredients are needed for the wacky potions and embark on adventures to find and collect them. Unite the three Pirate factions to gain access to their hero units and ultimately take down the Pirates of Black Cove and become King of all the pirates. If you have what it takes that is.
Genre: RTS -- Action-RPG / Developer: Paradox Interactive / Release Date: August 2, 2011
Platforms: Windows PC
Pride of Nations is a turn-based historical strategy game set in the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country and guides it through industrialization, military conquest, and colonization. This upcoming release from AGEOD follows such successful historical strategy games as Birth of America, American Civil War, Napoleon's Campaigns, and Wars in America.
Genre: Turn-Based Historical Strategy / Developer: Paradox Interactive / Release Date: June 7, 2011
Platforms: Windows PC
The year is 1467 and civil war has broken out. The authority of the Ashikaga Shoguns has collapsed and it is every man for himself in the provinces. Honor and duty vie with survival in the delicate dance of power, conquest and betrayal as you attempt to unite the land of the Rising Sun through a combination of deal-making with foreign powers, sending your powerful samurai armies into battle against your enemies, and unleashing shadowy Ninja clans under the cover of darkness to assassinate your rivals!
Genre: Historical Strategy / Developer: Paradox Interactive / Release Date: September 13, 2011
Platforms: Windows PC
Ever wondered how it would feel to sail a half a million ton Supertanker through the perfect storm? To take on illegal whale hunters in the Antarctic? Or to feel the rush as you evacuate an island threatened by disaster.
Ship Simulator Extremes offers exciting missions all over the world as you pilot an impressive array of vessels, and live the story of real ship captains.
Genre: Simulation / Developer: VSTEP / Release Date: August 24, 2010
Platforms: Windows PC
Building on Supreme Ruler 2010 and 2020, BattleGoat Studios invites you to relive the tension and uncertainty of the Cold War. As the 1950's approach, the Korean War looms, the Arms Race intensifies, the Berlin Crisis leads to the formation of NATO, and the world anticipates a new World War.
As leader of the United States or the Soviet Union, you must make the correct Economic, Diplomatic, Domestic and Military decisions to successfully navigate your country through this dangerous historical era and increase your nation's Sphere of Influence on the world stage
Genre: Grand Strategy -- RTS / Developer: BattleGoat Studios / Release Date: July 19, 2011
Platforms: Windows PC
Sword of the Stars II is the full, stand-alone follow-up to the hit 4X franchise, Sword of the Stars. SotS II will feature the six races from SotS I and its expansions, as well as revealing the dark, running secret of the original series, the Suul'ka -- an ancient race that is responsible for tampering with the Liir, Zuul, and other races in the SotS universe!
Genre: Strategy -- Sci Fi-Action / Developer: Kerberos Productions / Release Date: TBA 2011
Platforms: Windows PC
A new turned-based strategy game set in the fantastical world of Ardania invites players to take on the role of the Great Mage and build a powerful magical empire, giving mightly mages the ability to control armies and wield magic to wage war against another, as they compete with other wizards for the title of Warlock.
Genre: Strategy / Developer: Ino-Co Plus / Release Date: TBA
Platforms: Windows PC
Over the course of the past two decades ever three-to-four years one or more of the websites that cover games and gaming news will declare PC Gaming to be dead (or dying). This happens most often whenever a new generation of gaming console comes out, but in spite of the speculation that the new standards for gaming will result in the death of PC Gaming, it never happens.
Part of the reason for that is the fluid nature of PC Tech -- unlike games consoles, which are locked into the hardware configuration that they launch with, on an average of every 16 months an entirely new set of standards for PC hardware -- and thus its gaming capabilities -- appears, refreshing and invigorating the PC games community and empowering the folks who make PC games to turn out a new and even more impressive line of games.
The carefully guided path that Paradox has taken with respect to the RTS genre, practically making it its own, combined with its push towards publisher-owned digital distribution means that PC Gaming is certainly safe once again. As Paradox opens new paths in the Free-2-Play and MMO gaming genres, and possibly transitions some of their titles onto console, one thing is certain: as gamers we live in interesting times.
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