Command & Conquer. Sure, there’s a touch of Julius Caesar’s ‘veni, vidi, vici’ in there. But less romantically, the title evokes Internet Explorer or Acrobat Reader – sitting comfortably alongside the clearly and sensibly labelled Windows software of the mid-90s. It’s a reminder of just how early Westwood happened upon the blueprint for real-time strategy, right as many PC users were buying their first trackball mice.Back then, the developer was fresh from Dune II, its unlikely David Lynch adaptation and progenitor of the RTS genre as we know it today. Inspired by the house politics and struggle for resources that consumed the desert planet Arrakis, Westwood had come up with an addictive formula for harvesting spice and converting that wealth into military power, which in turn could be used in the battle to secure more spice. The team was, quite frankly, surprised by how much fun that formula had turned out to be.
Minecraft is getting an ambitious Dungeons & Dragons crossover. Like any D&D campaign, the crossover begins around a blocky table with an open pizza box, and then it escalates into a roughly ten-hour, action-RPG take on Minecraft as you trek through the classic tabletop’s fantasy world.
The Last Of Us: Part 1‘s long-awaited PC port is being torn apart 
Balsa Model Flight Simulator launched into Steam Early Access last year, to positive reviews and few sales. It is, like its developer’s previous game Kerbal Space Program, about building a machine designed to fly, crashing it back to earth, then constructing something better.
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RPS Game Club liveblog session about this month’s chosen pick, 
Amazon Spring Sale highlight from me today, readers, and I’m happy to say it’s a very personal recommendation. I’ve been using the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless almost every day since putting them on our 
Logitech G502 Hero showing up in Amazon sales events, although maybe it wouldn’t have sounded as profound.
Tax Heaven 3000 changed its release date a couple of times, moving from a March 31st date that was suspiciously close to April Fools’ Day, to April 4th after its 
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