The start of the year is always a bit of a dry period, but the ongoing global health crises seems to be exacerbating the issue when it comes to new game releases. In strategy-land alone, we're not really expecting anything profound to release until Humankind in April. One thing we were looking forward to at the end of January was the release of Stronghold: Warlords.
We say 'were', as it's now been delayed by six weeks until early March. It's a good thing we haven't just written up a guide to all the cool games coming out this mo- oh no.
The delay is due to some issues that the team at developer FireFly found with multiplayer in a recent stint of beta testing. There's not enough time to resolve the problems with the time they have, hence the delay. They can't exactly postpone the multiplayer mode either, as they've been promising it would be included at launch for a while now. It's a shame, but probably for the best in the long run.
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