DEFCON Features

Preview: After five years of relative dormancy, RTS is coming back in a big way.

The costs of developing a new game franchise from the design document stage to shipping a fully working product continue to shoot ever skyward, such that mainstream publishers are required to put millions of dollars behind every new title if they expect it to be taken seriously. Unfortunately for gamers, this is a double-edged sword: While every year sees a few blockbuster releases with...