EA's Chris Corry feels there's a long journey to go through before a real-time strategy on the consoles can become as accessible and fluent as the master of strategy - the PC.

Even then he believes they could never compete with the mouse and keyboard, to which the RTS is so "inherently reliant."

The Polish magazine Click! has revealed a few more interesting details about Red Alert 3. As the magazine is in Polish we can't read it, but thanks to a C&C community member, Kodaemon, we do know the interesting bits that were revealed by the magazine.

Capcom announced today that its developing Plunder for the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC. Developed by Certain Affinity, known for their previous work on the Halo series, Plunder is a real-time multiplayer strategy game that puts players in command of a pirate ship with the goal of destroying your enemies and capturing towns for your pirate faction. Plunder is currently scheduled for release this summer.

Deep Silver have sent us an article which will give you detailed information on all the units that you can controlling whilst playing as the Dark Elves. Check inside for the full details.

JanaLee Stocks played Band of Bugs from developer NinjaBee. This turn-based tactical strategy game has the player control various combat units in the form of bugs. Objectives include mass battle wins to key enemy/item destruction to escape. This game doesn't sound like any type of major leap in genre and gameplay, so how does it actually play? Just how fun is it? The author shares her opinion.

Read the Band of Bugs review.

An unknown source has confirmed to Videgaming247 that Relic is currently working on Dawn of War 2, a sequel to 2004's epic RTS set in the Warhammer 40k universe.

Red Alert 3 was recently announced and we've all been trying to discover what little information we can about it. Hagren has informed us about some information he obtained from the PCGuru magazine article that revealed the announcement of Red Alert 3.

Codemasters announced today that it'll be releasing new content packs for Overlord, including the game's single-player expansion Overlord: Raising Hell.

The new content is now available from Xbox Live Marketplace and comprises of one free and two premium download packs; the premium packs are available for 800 and 400 Microsoft Points respectively.

Remember when World In Conflict, the PC RTS game that shook it up against the likes of Supreme Commander last September? Well, it was always set to release on the Xbox 360 for those who didn't know, but it was also meant to be out in December. As in, 2007.

That's right, we were supposed to have a game other than Unreal Tournament 3 to spend our money on after the November fiasco.

There hasn't been much word on the console version since winter 07, but we just got word that it's officially set for a fall release this year. As in, a year late. Not that the RTS genre has really made it big on the 360, and hasn't even been tried on the PS3 yet, but maybe we'll see the PS3 version with keyboard and mouse support. I mean, UT3 had it.

Click here for the full press release.

EA LA manager David Silverman has revealed in a recent Battlecast web-based TV show that the company will be making an important announcement regarding Command & Conquer within the next few weeks.

"For several months EA LA has been keeping the mother of all secrets, and in only a few weeks a major announcement will come" said Silverman.