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John Markley

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Rising Empires Premium Review

  • May 7, 2019
  • John Markley
4X Excellence Comes to the Tiny Screen Rising Empires is a 4X turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy world, from Hellhound Interactive. It’s one of the more ambitious entries…
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The Best Android Strategy Games of All Time

  • August 14, 2017
  • John Markley
Android: the armpit of the gaming industry—or so we are sometimes led to believe. The worst part of sentiments like the above for those of us who work with Android…
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The Best Android Strategy Games of 2014 (Fall Edition)

  • December 1, 2014
  • John Markley
2014 has proven to be quite bountiful year for Android strategy fans. Quality titles are more common than ever. Some excellent PC games have received impressively faithful ports, while more…
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American Civil War Review

  • August 14, 2014
  • John Markley
American Civil War is a historical military strategy game about the eponymous conflict from DK Simulations, putting you in command of the Union’s armies fighting to subdue the rebellious Confederacy.…
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Solarmax 2 Review

  • July 18, 2014
  • John Markley
Solarmax 2 is a real-time interstellar warfare strategy game from Nico Tuason. It offers a simple and very streamlined, but ultimately quite addictive strategy experience. The premise is simple: You’re…
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The Best Android Strategy Games of 2014 (so far…)

  • June 19, 2014
  • John Markley
The best thing about Android gaming is that the barriers to entry for developers are all but nonexistent, allowing just about anybody to create and publish games for the platform.…
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Conquest of Elysium 3 Review

  • June 18, 2014
  • John Markley
Conquest of Elysium 3 is a game from Illwinter Game Design, a small Swedish developer. It’s a turn-based strategy game in a fantasy setting, where myriad factions, races, and nations…
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Pacific Fleet Review

  • March 27, 2014
  • John Markley
Pacific Fleet is a strategy game of Second World War naval combat. It’s less than it first appears to be in some ways, but it still has quite a bit…
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The Most Hardcore Android Strategy Games Ever Made

  • November 17, 2013
  • John Markley
From the visual extravaganzas that make my PC’s graphics card keel over wheezing for air to games that are mostly played via spreadsheets, from games with simple mechanics involving no…
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Glory of Generals HD Review

  • September 4, 2013
  • John Markley
Glory of Generals HD is a turn-based military strategy game set in the Second World War that looks impressive but fails to deliver on the promise of its graphics. The…
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The Most Hardcore Android Strategy Games You Never Heard Of

  • August 14, 2013
  • John Markley
The strategy genre on Android is like an iceberg: the part you see is just the tip of a much larger object beneath the surface (and also because of James…
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The Best Android Strategy Games of 2013

  • June 9, 2013
  • John Markley
2013 has been a pretty good year for strategy games on Android so far, with worthwhile releases in subgenres ranging from squad-based combat tactics to business management to interstellar empires.…
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The Most Hardcore Android Strategy Games Ever Made

  • June 3, 2013
  • John Markley
The world of Android gaming has expanded greatly in the past few years, and the strategy genre has not been left out. From turn-based military strategy games, to classic real-time…
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Spaceward Ho! Review

  • May 11, 2013
  • John Markley
Spaceward Ho! is a very old name in the turn-based interstellar empire strategy genre, born when the building blocks of the first atoms were coalescing from the primordial quark-gluon plasma…
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The Most Hardcore Android Tablets 0f 2013

  • April 24, 2013
  • John Markley
The selection of available Android tablets has grown impressively in a very short time. In the face of such variety, it can be difficult to sort the wheat from the…
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Strategy and Tactics: World War II

  • April 7, 2013
  • John Markley
Historical military strategy games have always been a huge part of the strategy genre on PCs but  comparatively thin on the ground in the mobile strategy market, where vast hordes…
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King’s League Review

  • March 23, 2013
  • John Markley
The King’s League is a strategy game from Difference Games, a company with a background mostly in Flash-based titles. It’s a fun game, but its dearth of choices in the…
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Vector Review

  • March 11, 2013
  • John Markley
Elegant Deliverance Vector is a side-scrolling action/platformer game based on parkour, the art of rapidly and fluidly navigating past obstacles. Pioneered by French athletes drawing inspiration from the obstacle courses…
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Covenant of Solitude Review

  • February 21, 2013
  • John Markley
 Unspectacularly Entertaining Japanese RPG releases have been disappointingly sparse on the current generation of consoles, but the genre has found new vitality on mobile platforms like the Sony PSP and…
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Dream House Days Review

  • February 7, 2013
  • John Markley
Unabashedly Happy! Dream House Days is the most recent in Kairosoft’s long line of mobile management simulation games. This time, the player is given the task of managing an apartment…
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