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Introversion Software released a major upgrade for their 2006 classic DEFCON, a free 20th Anniversary Edition upgrade for all players. Read the full article here:
Twenty years ago on this day, the 29th September 2006, Introversion Software released their third game DEFCON, and our lives were never the same again. What started as a 24 hour game jam (and love letter to WARGAMES) rapidly turned into our most successful game yet, as tens of th
Bug Fixes The renderer fallback now also covers the window being recreated, such as a resolution or renderer change, rather than only Defcon starting up. HDR for Metal (MacOS) and Vulkan (Windows, Linux) no longer creates corrupted and garbled screenshots. World messages such as
1.70.2 Bug Fixes Fixed a crash on startup, and when pressing Apply in the Mods window, caused by mods whose gameoptions.txt leaves a blank line where a text settings default value belongs. Fixed a crash on startup for anyone with extracted main.dat files in their Defcon folder wh
Defcon Beta Update Announcement We would like to announce that, thanks to the hard efforts of Defcon fan, volunteer and skilled developers, Keiron McPhee and Jasmin Brumme, we have a new build of Defcon to test! The core experience remains pure DEFCON, but under the hood much has
Make Mac OS X 10.13 build the default. Should resolve "damaged and can't be opened" issue on recent Mac OS X.
Looking back at it now, 2020 doesn’t feel like a banner year for strategy games, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been a few gems. The list below – gathered by a panel of experts and regularly updated – contains games from as recently as 12 months ago alongside classics from a
For a time it looked as though strategy games had sunk into a kind of deathly malaise, unsure which territory to claim next and which ones it should leave well and truly alone. Fast forward to 2020, though, and strategy games have never looked healthier, which is why we’ve compil
You’ll ocassionally find someone on the internet sounding off about how the strategy genre is dead. If you see such a person in the future, send them this list of the best strategy games ever made. (more…)
An entirely objective ranking of the 50 best PC strategy games ever made, now freshened up to include everything from 2017 and 2018. From intricate, global-scale wargames to the tight thrills of guerrilla squads, the broad expanse of the genre contains something for everyone, and
Civilization VI: Rise and Fall wants to solve a problem. That problem is perpetual growth, and it plagues many 4X games. Whether your aim is world conquest or cultural hegemony, victory in Civilization and many of its cohorts depends on domination. However peacefully you try to p
Hello. This is Spawn Point , a new not-quite-regular feature in which we take a genre, series or other facet of gaming culture, and try to convince you to give it a shot. It might be those hero shooters you ve always wanted to get into, or that terrifying space game played by tho
Today's Deal: Save 85% on DEFCON !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time
If you fancy a break from watching the crawl towards nuclear annihilation live on TV, you can now jack into virtual reality and watch it sped-up in Defcon VR . Introversion Software today launched the free VR doodad, which lets goggheads enter a virtual war room to spectate match
Introversion joins the VR party! After Prison Architect, our most successful game is DEFCON - a nuclear war strategy game inspired by the 80s movie War games (If you've not seen it, so yourself a favour and check it out over the weekend) DEFCON VR allows you to spectate DEFCON ga
Introversion joins the VR party! After Prison Architect, our most successful game is DEFCON - a nuclear war strategy game inspired by the 80s movie War games (If you've not seen it, so yourself a favour and check it out over the weekend) DEFCON VR allows you to spectate DEFCON ga
Today's Deal: Save 75% on DEFCON ! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
Some of the best-rated indie developers from Great Britain have come together to create the Best of British Indie Bundle during this week's Midweek Madness*! This Bundle includes: Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There Dan That! Double Pack DEFCON Eufloria Gratuitious Space Battle
The Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store! Today's Daily Deals Include: Call of Duty: Black Ops Wargame: European Escalation Spec Ops: The Line Stronghold 3 Gold Grand Theft Auto Franchise Railworks 3: Train Simulator 2012 Company of Heroes Fran
The Humble Bundles keep on rolling, with a new 'pay what you want' indie mega-bargain arriving mere weeks after the last one wrapped up. The new Humble Introversion Bundle packs four games from English indie Introversion: hacking sim Uplink , RTS Darwinia , its multiplayer sequel