About two years ago I reviewed a bunch of sci-fi themed mobile games that I thought might appeal to the discerning BattleTech fan. Among them was a neat little turn-based sandbox-style strategy game called Templar Assault that reminded me of a grid-based MegaMek if it were dropped into the Warhammer 40K universe. The pay version […]
Read More →“TACTICAL ‘MECH COMBAT RETURNS TO THE PC.” I was a backer of MechWarrior Tactics before it fell apart amidst development. MechWarrior Online is alright from the first-person view- vehicle simulation side, but I was hankering for something a little closer to the original source material, and with a much richer immersion in the interstellar politics […]
Read More →I reviewed Ep0ch last year during my mobile game round up series. First released in 2011, Ep0ch is set in a post-apocalyptic city besieged by warring robots used as soldiers by rival corporate AI. You are Ep0ch, a kind of bodyguard robot called a guardian in search of Princess Amelia; your charge. Built in Unreal […]
Read More →Having mainly missed PC gaming in the ’90s (with a few exceptions) I only recently discovered the 4X empire-building sub genre. According to the Wikipedia entry, 4X is described as: “a genre of strategy-based video and board games in which players control an empire and “eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate”. The term was first coined […]
Read More →There’s been a new wave of mobile big robot games, and one of the more interesting I’ve been playing lately is one that’s hard to categorize. As you might expect with a game with such a clunky title, M2: War of Mech Myth is a rough translation. I just call it Mecha Warriors of Myth […]
Read More →I used to be a gamer. A giant collector of big robot games be it Cybernator on Super Nintendo through Chromehounds during the early years of the XBox 360. And of course the MechWarrior and MechCommander PC games. These days I’m busy and on the move, so portable games have been a go-to theme with […]
Read More →I sit here scratching my head because of how inane it seems at first. But then it slowly starts to dawn on you. Yes, MechWarrior Tactics is a great attempt at bringing the heart and soul of a tabletop wargame to your PC as a videogame the way that Baldur’s Gate did for RPGs. Especially the […]
Read More →People who follow my articles have probably noticed that I like to spend time noticing “Little Guy” independent developers of not just table top games and miniatures, but videogames as well. The Trese brothers Cory and Andrew definitely fall into this category. And their passion for science fiction and fantasy shows if you look at […]
Read More →I know that I’ve mentioned this game more than once – specifically hoping it would some day show up for Android. As it still hasn’t come out for Droid, I managed to wrangle my girlfriend’s iPod while I get my game on – I mean review this promising spiritual successor to the MechCommander series. It’s currently […]
Read More →I was just updating some of my games the other day (several of which I have reviewed here) when I decided to lurk Google Play and the Amazon App Store. BattleTech, mecha, ect are among my favorite keywords, and right away I ran into Mech Factory, a kind of mobile library by Phoenix Wolf. Based […]
Read More →Well just about the same time I finished my second article on Android Robot games, I began to find a few more games that I felt should also be reviewed here. There are others out there that are just too terrible to comment on or fall a bit too far into the “cute robot” category. […]
Read More →Welcome back to part two of my round up of some robot combat games for the Android operating system. My substitute for BattleTech Tactical Command continues with games that while may not be even in the same genre as established BattleTech videogames, I think are still quite enjoyable to the same mindset that enjoys hundreds […]
Read More →As much as I prefer the Android operating system over any other phone or pad OS, there are days I almost look at the Apple store in longing. MechWarrior Tactical Command is one of those times. I can hope all I want, but to clean up a dirty expression, wishes will fill the other hand […]
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