Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

Many veteran gamers agree that vintage strategy games are among the best in the genre's catalog. Not only do they offer a feeling of nostalgia, but they also have great mechanics, especially for their ...

All great games have clear inspirations, with some influences more visible than others in the final product. In some cases, development teams from one game take their experiences to a new one, or ...

The real-time strategy genre is far from dead, but it’s not exactly a leader in the PC scene, at least not to the extent that it was in the 1990s. This was a decade that was defined by the likes of ...