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Update for Mac OS X 10.13 and later.
Make Mac OS X 10.13 build the default. Should resolve "damaged and can't be opened" issue on recent Mac OS X.
Announcement - DEFCON
The best strategy games on PC
Steam post image 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 an…
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The best strategy games on PC
Steam post image 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, tho…
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The best strategy games on PC
Steam post image Steam post image Steam post image Steam post image 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…
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The 50 best strategy games on PC
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 br…
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All rise and no fall: how Civilization reinforces a dangerous myth
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 c…
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Spawn Point: how to get into real-time strategy
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 wan…
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Daily Deal - DEFCON, 85% Off
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 Steam p…
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Watch the world end in Defcon VR s virtual war room
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 [official site ]. Introversion Software today launched the fr…
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Everybody Dies in VR
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…
Patch notes - DEFCON
Everybody Dies in VR
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…
Patch notes - DEFCON
Daily Deal - DEFCON, 75% off!
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!
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Midweek Madness - British Indie Bundle
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 D…
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STEAM SUMMER SALE DAY SIX
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 Franc…
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The Humble Introversion Bundle launches
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 Introversio…
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Introversion: what happened to Subversion
Darwinia and Defcon developer Introversion stopped working on Subversion nearly a year ago, Eurogamer has discovered. Subversion resembled a collection of tech demos but "the core game itself wasn't really that great",…



