1C Company have released a playable demo for Men of War: Red Tide. No details have been provided on what it contains.

Download it here.

Sega has released 5 new screenshots for Napoleon: Total War, an upcoming historic strategy game exclusive to the PC.

In Napoleon: Total War, aspiring generals have the chance to play as the legendary French general Napoleon Bonaparte or as one of his opposing factions. Battling through his three biggest military campaigns, the game will take you through Italy and Egypt, narrating the early years of the fearsome commander, while the third campaign will tell the story of his fateful drive towards Moscow and, ultimately, his showdown with the Duke of Wellington at one of the most famous battles of all - The Battle of Waterloo.

Square Enix announced today that Supreme Commander 2, created by developer Gas Powered Games, will be released on the Xbox 360 and PC in Spring 2010.

Supreme Commander 2 is the next installment in the Supreme Commander 2 franchise, set 25 years further into the future. Featuring numerous game enhancements, an in-depth campaign mode, online multiplayer and a unique storyline.

From the typing fingers of Nick Earl, an EA Games bigwig, we learn that Command & Conquer is to have its fire re-lit digitally, somehow.

The latest C&C is a PC exclusive and keeps a running tab of accomplishments online, and also ditches the traditional base building. *gasp*

EA announced today that Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight will be released on 19th March, 2010 in Europe.

The story of Command & Conquer 4 takes place after the events of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. The year is 2062 and humanity is at the brink of extinction. With only six years left until the mysterious crystalline structure Tiberium renders the earth entirely uninhabitable, the two opposing factions - Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and the Brotherhood of Nod - inevitably find themselves in desperation for the same cause: to stop Tiberium from extinguishing mankind.

Blizzard's Chris Sigaty, producer of StarCraft II, has revealed during Russian games expo IgroMir that there's no beta for fans in 2009.

It's been pushed back to next year instead, with the first StarCraft II chapter due in spring. The beta will include the new Battle.net.

Sony Online Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast today announced that they are developing Magic: The Gathering – Tactics, an online 3D turn-based strategy game for the PC, with a PS3 version coming later.

"The growing Magic: The Gathering community has an insatiable desire for great strategic game experiences. Sony Online Entertainment is the perfect partner to transform the best of Magic's story, strategy and competitive play into a fantastic ‘Tactics’ game experience for current and new Magic fans," said Greg Leeds, president, Wizards of the Coast.

Orson Scott Card has said how there aren't enough turn-based strategy games out, and he doesn't want to get locked into "endless battles." He would rather create than just war.

Card nods to Sid Meier as "the only guy" who does turn-based "reliably." More should learn lessons from the "way he does it." Others "emphasize the tedium", but not Civilization.

From the creators of Warcraft III mod Defence of The Ancients, League of Legends is a free-to-play RTS/RPG hybrid strategy game that's just fired up its open beta phase to fans.

It's billed as a highly competitive multiplayer romp, which is no surprise given the enormous success of the DoTA mod for Blizzard's classic Warcraft III. Open beta runs for a week only.

Developer Relic Entertainment have unleashed their latest free content update for Dawn of War II, and this one adds arena style action as squads must survive enemy waves.

The new mode adds leaderboards and new wargear to help you try and make it through. This update also adds an ocean of balance tweaks to multiplayer and bug fixes. Get it!

Director man Sam Raimi has revealed the 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'The Patriot' screenwriter, Robert Rodat, is going to be crafting "an original story" for Warcraft.

Raimi says they'll be "really faithful" to the game lore, he wants it "accurate and true" to Azeroth's inhabitants. So gold farmers confirmed? It will feel like a "'World of WarCraft' adventure."

The Stronghold franchise will be re-releasing this month on the 27th as publisher 2K retails the Stronghold Collection, which includes all five titles. It's the castle siege wet dream.

The real-time strategy games are all about protecting your masoned walls from dirty invaders, but what's more it'll be a DRM-free collection. It's only for the US for now, pity.

Following the success of Archon for iPhone, React Games will be bringing the cult classic back to the PC. This much improved version will support multiplayer modes and HD.

It will also have online leader boards and achievements. The developers have been careful in "maintaining the classic feel" of the 1980's game. Another iPhone game is out soon.

Paradox Interactive and Nitro Games today announced a "Designer's Cut" update for East India Company. Based on ideas from the game's developers, as well as feedback from the community, the development team will be releasing a free add-on.

The free add-on introduces a vast amount of enhancements for improved gameplay, including new port views, tactical battles can now be fought on an island environment providing completely new tactical elements, the introduction of multiplayer modes "Beehive" and "Breakthrough", history graphs to help track long term progress, and many more new features to make East India Company a deeper experience than ever before.

AMD have a new fancy graphics chipset and so they're pleased to announce that developer Phenomic is "demonstrating its commitment" to Battleforge fans by enabling DX11.

Which of course "when matched" with AMD's new "cutting-edge" DirectX 11 hardware it helps deliver an "improved game experience" in performance and visuals. HDAO is here.

Sega and Creative Assembly's Empire: Total War can now have its Warpath expansion downloaded exclusively from Steam, with the 1.5 update now available to gamers.

Warpath adds an expanded Native American campaign to North America, and 5 brand new factions. The 1.5 update brings "major improvements" to the game AI, plus 5 new maps.

Developer Creative Assembly will say "thank you" to the community by including five new multiplayer maps free when the 1.5 patch goes live, which is when Warpath retails.

Warpath is the mini-expansion to Empire: Total War. The patch is said to include significant tweaks to the game AI and the new maps support "all team sizes". Warpath here "soon."

A huge swathe of changes have arrived for Ironclad Games' space strategy Sins of a Solar Empire, with all units getting a tweak and some even an outright overhaul.

Logging into Stardock's Impulse will get you the mega patch. It's really surprised the developers how strategies "have evolved" over the one and half years the game has been out.

Paradox Interactive has announced the Elven Legacy Trilogy, three expansion packs for the Fantasy Strategy title Elven Legacy from Paradox Interactive, releasing in October, November and December 2009.

Continuing the intense tale of a world that pits elf against human, the first of the trilogy, Ranger, is set to release on October 20th and will feature 16 new campaign missions, two new main heroes, along with new artifacts and spells.

Stardock has gone live with v1.19 for Demigod, the real-time strategy game involving a Demigod avatar and legions of mythical beasts. The update tweaks a few things.

It removes the option for skirmish in multiplayer, leaving it to singleplayer. They hope to include new maps in the future but it's unclear. Two new Demigods still coming.