Tactics

Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters to Deliver Space Marine Tactics Next Year

Today during their Warhammer Skulls livestream, Games Workshop detailed a ton of upcoming video games, including the newly-announced Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters (now that’s a title that doesn’t mess around). Published by the strategy and sim experts at Frontier Games and developed by Winnipeg, Canada’s Complex Games (Woo! Hometown pride!) Daemonhunters will pit …

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Tier 2 VRS Further Improves Performance in Gears 5 and Gears Tactics

VRS, or Variable Rate Shading, was featured in both Gears 5 and Gears Tactics with its Tier 1 implementation. In a new blog post published on the DirectX 12 developer site, Chris Wallis (Senior Software Engineer at The Coalition) explained that both games have now had their VRS implementation upgraded to Tier 2, enabling even …

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Gears Tactics Gets a Console Release Date, Will be an Xbox Series X/S Launch Title

When Gears Tactics launched on PC earlier this year, Microsoft promised the game would also be coming to consoles and now we know when that will happen. Gears Tactics will be launching on consoles alongside the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in November! An Xbox One version will also be released. But that’s …

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Teamfight Tactics: Fates Launches Tomorrow For Public Beta, Official Release To Follow

Fates, the fourth set for Teamfight Tactics is about to make its playable debut, starting with a Public Beta Environment (PBE) test tomorrow. Teamfight Tactics: Fates will also be part of the official game in Patch 10.19, tentatively scheduled to go live on September 16th. Right-Click and Open Image in New Tab to zoom in …

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War Mongrels Is a New WWII Real-Time Tactics Game from Destructive Creations

Destructive Creations, the Polish studio behind Ancestors Legacy, announced a new real-time tactics game titled War Mongrels. Marcin Stanek, Business Development Manager at Destructive Creations, stated: Iron Danger Review – I’m Out of Time Many games take place in World War II, but there’s hardly ever a spotlight on the Eastern Front. My grandfather told …

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Peaky Blinders: Mastermind Preview – Time-Travelling Tactics

When I think of Peaky Blinders, I don’t think of time travel. I don’t mean time travel in the sense of going back to kill baby Churchill, to stop him sending Chester Campbell to target the blinders. Well, I suppose I do mean that. I just don’t think about time travel in any sense of …

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Gears Tactics PC Performance Analysis Including Variable Rate Shading

Gears Tactics is the latest grub smashing entry into the long-running Gears franchise. This time around however you’ll be shaking the formula up with an XCOM style strategy mix rather than a cover to cover over the shoulder shooty game, and that brings a bit of a different angle (literally) in the way the game’s …

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Gears Tactics Review – The Perfect Use of Chest-High Walls

GAME INFO Gears Tactice April 28th, 2020 Platform PC, Xbox One coming later Publisher Xbox Game Studios Developer Splash Damage, The Coalition It’s no secret what my feelings are when it comes to Gears of War as a series, I explained as much in my preview of Gears Tactics at the end of last month. …

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Gears Tactics Drops a Raucous Launch Trailer, Pre-Install Available Now

Gears Tactics isn’t your typical turn-based strategy title. Sure, the game has some mechanical things in common with XCOM and other entries in the genre, but there aren’t many other tactics games that deliver this much blood, guts, and swagger. This is the kind of game where you gain extra turns by brutally executing enemies …

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Gears Tactics Goes Gold, Game Free With Purchase of Intel Core i5 Device or Higher

A lot of games, such as Wasteland 3 and The Last of Us Part II, are being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it seems Gears Tactics won’t be one of them. During today’s Inside Xbox show, Microsoft announced Gears Tactics has officially gone gold and is on track for its late-April release date. …

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Gears Tactics Features Variable Rate Shading, Improved Async Compute; Optimized for Intel Xe Architecture

In a blog post shared Friday evening, The Coalition announced that Gears Tactics, the upcoming X-COM style spin-off due next month on PC, will feature a number of technical improvements such as Variable Rate Shading (VRS) support and improved Async Compute. Additionally, the developers have worked closely with Intel to optimize the game for current …

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Gears Tactics Preview – XCOM of War

I’ve never been the biggest fan or proponent of Gears of War. The franchise has never gripped me like it has others. Sure, it’s enjoyable enough, big flashy shooty bang bang is all good and fine, but I can’t say I enjoy sitting behind thousands of chest-high walls, popping my head up every now and …

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Splash Damage (Gears Tactics) Is Working on a Stadia Exclusive

London-based game developer Splash Damage announced to be working on a Google Stadia exclusive with a brief message posted on the studio’s website. We’re thrilled to finally announce that we’re working on an exclusive title in partnership with Google Stadia. At Splash Damage we’re always looking to innovate, and always looking for partners and platforms …

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Age of Resistance Tactics Launching February 4th, 2020

Publisher En Masse Entertainment announced the release date of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics, a turn-based tactics game based on the 1982 film and recent Netflix TV adaptation. It’ll be out on February 4th, 2020 for PC and Mac (via Steam), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. In The Dark Crystal: Age of …

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Iron Danger Preview – Time-Travel Turn-Based Tactics… Wait, What?

Daedalic Entertainment is quickly becoming a much more interesting publisher to me. Much like Focus Home Interactive, Kalypso Media and Bigben Entertainment, Daedalic Entertainment are what you could best describe as mid-tier. AA if you will, though they are dealing with big IP’s in the form of Lord of the Rings. You know what, that’s …

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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics Preview

It wasn’t too long ago that I was reviewing Stranger Things 3: The Game, a title that essentially told the story of the third season of Stranger Things. How successful that title was is pretty unknown to me (I haven’t heard of any sales figures), though the popularity of Stranger Things undoubtedly caught some people’s …

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Gears Tactics Is Coming to Xbox One, Too, The Coalition’s Rod Fergusson Confirms

Gears Tactics was one of the surprises The Coalition had for franchise fans at E3 2018. Studio Head Rod Fergusson jumped on the stage to announce not one but three games: Gears 5, Gears Pop! and Gears Tactics. With Gears 5 set to launch on September 10th (September 6th if you get the Ultimate Edition) …

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