Hearing the term "real-time strategy" instantly brings to mind certain genre tropes: harvesting resources, building bases, climbing up technology trees. But EA is releasing a new IP this year, an RTS for the PC called BattleForge, that takes a completely different tack: it's based on a collectible card game akin to Pokémon or Magic: The Gathering. The game has been in development for the past three years at EA Phenomic, the mega-publisher's smallest studio, which is located in Germany.
Sebastian Neil, a producer on the game, gave me a walkthrough at EA's Comic Con booth.
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.
