UGO writes: "Innovation in the real-time strategy genre is a rare occurrence. Controls and rules are always tweaked of course, but actual wholesale changes are few and far between. We've been reading here and there about Electronic Arts' upcoming card-based PC RTS BattleForge for some time now, but we got to witness it firsthand last week at the publisher's annual Studio Showcase in Redwood Shores, California. Cast aside any preconceptions you may possess about the genre right now, for EA Phenomic's BattleForge is equal parts Battle for Middle-Earth, Magic: The Gathering Online, Shadow of the Colossus and Facebook. …say what?!
The core game in BattleForge is pure RTS, with players moving units (or groups of units) around and attacking others by selecting owned ones and right-clicking on the target location. Some units also possess special abilities, which can be activated by clicking on a convenient text box which pops up whenever the cursor hovers over that unit. Build locations – such as crumbled castle walls and easy-to-spot resource towers – are similarly interactive, with build options appearing when the area is clicked on."
Theshigen writes "Battleforge was a rather novel idea. It combined collectable card game mechanics with real-time strategy, something new and fresh back in 2009. It's been re-released today as Skylords Reborn. A fan-made project that's made the gamer, completely free."
1RBC: This has been a pretty exciting week for game news- this week, Sony announced that they'd be cutting off Playstation Now support for the Vita, PS3 and every other device that's not a PS4 or PC, some big announcements came out of Nintendo regarding DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as well as more details about Splatoon 2, and EA has handed over (partial) control of the card/strategy game BattleForge to their fans- all this and more on this week's episode of 1RBC Gaming Weekly.
iLLGaming.in's weekly roundup of Free-2-Play games, by F2P writer Ajay Verma.
