A Beta version of the Total War: Rome II Assembly Kit, a suite of mod-tools specifically designed to help modders get creative with Rome II, is free to download now in the Tools section of Steam. The Assembly Kit contains a series of tools to help modders edit Rome II’s database and variants, and process data such as textures, models, animations and campaign-game start positions. A suite of... more.

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games and planter of flags, today released “Conquest of Paradise,” the first expansion to award-winning empire-building game Europa Universalis IV created by Paradox Development Studio. Available now for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Conquest of Paradise provides players of Paradox’s celebrated strategy game with an all-new set of challenges, sending them to... more.

Unity Games and Black Tower Studios today released update 1.3 for the critically acclaimed mobile title, Archangel. Update 1.3 tweaks gameplay to allow for more action earlier in the game. In addition to the update, Archangel is now available for the reduced price of $1.99USD in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Official Website: http://www.unitygames.com/games/archangel/ iTunes: https:... more.

Coco and Faceroll Games today announced that their mobile space strategy game Galaxy Factions is now available for free on Android. Originally launched for iOS in October 2013, Galaxy Factions has already been downloaded more than 100,000 times, and will bring mobile strategy gaming to the final frontier of space combat via the Google Play store. In Galaxy Factions, players take control of a... more.

Stoic, an independent game development company and Versus Evil, an independent game publisher, today announced the release of the highly anticipated Strategy RPG The Banner Saga on PC and Mac.  The game, a huge funding success on Kickstarter, was recently announced as an Independent Games Festival (IGF) finalist for Excellence in Visual Arts, with honorable mentions for Excellence in Audio ... more.

Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray... It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, and the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever before. “Starpoint Gemini 2 is the sequel to the original game released in ... more.

OUYA and Airtight Games today announced that Soul Fjord will launch exclusively on OUYA Thursday, January 28th. Soul Fjord is a rhythm-based roguelike game created by Portal lead designer Kim Swift and puts players into the dance shoes of funk Viking Magnus Jones as he attempts to save the world from Ragnarok. The game will launch on OUYA for free with in-game purchases. Airtight Games al... more.

OUYA and Airtight Games today announced that Soul Fjord will launch exclusively on OUYA Thursday, January 28th. Soul Fjord is a rhythm-based roguelike game created by Portal lead designer Kim Swift and puts players into the dance shoes of funk Viking Magnus Jones as he attempts to save the world from Ragnarok. The game will launch on OUYA for free with in-game purchases. Airtight Games also r... more.

Kicking off the New Year with a bang, L3O Interactive and Iceberg Interactive have revealed that the upcoming 4X space-strategy game Horizon (PC) is headed to Steam early February 2014. Horizon is currently in the late Beta stages on Steam’s Early Access program, where it has an active and involved community that’s helped shape the game’s development and added to its robust feature list... more.

Blackguards, Daedalic Entertainment's turn-based RPG is now also available on Steam's Early Access program for Mac. This way, all Mac users can enjoy the first four chapters of the game even before the official release on January 24th. Early Access allows players to play the first chapters of Blackguards months before the official release and to have a chance to influence the development p... more.