Article by Matt S. China, as one of the oldest continuous cultures and nations on the planet, has a long and deep literary history. Some of its greatest masterpieces were written well before Europeans invaded places like America and Australia and re-drew the maps to suit their colonial expansion. Across…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s weird to get an expansion pack for a game that we don’t have in its base form on a console, but here you go: The first Romance of the Three Kingdoms to release on the Nintendo Switch in the west is the expansion (with the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo’s long-running Romance of the Three Kingdoms series has long been essential for fans of hardcore strategy. Based on the historical fiction novel of the same name, each game in the series challenges you to take a deeply fractured China and, through diplomacy and military…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Koei Tecmo has two properties focused on the classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms historical novel: Dynasty Warriors, and… Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Dynasty Warriors is an action series that takes the major characters of the novel, and then loosely re-interprets the events of the…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Koei Tecmo has released the latest chapter in its Romance of the Three Kingdom series… and it’s a cracker. Perfectly blending accessibility with the rich, deep strategy we have come to love in the ROTK series, XIV also remembers the main reason people love this series…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo continue to be the publisher to watch out for in the early part of the year. On the back of the Atelier Dusk trilogy in January, now we have the latest in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series to look forward to on…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the most venerable strategy properties out there. The first one was released back in 1985 – 33 years ago, and to give you some perspective and points of comparison – the first Civilization didn’t arrive until 1991, the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It might be one of Koei Tecmo’s more niche properties, but Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a long running, well-respected series, and each one is one of the finer examples of the grand strategy genre. Based on the book of the same name, this series…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. SEGA and Creative Assembly have pulled off something truly remarkable. Total War: Three Kingdoms has become the most successful title in the Total War series, and a massive hit for what remains an incredibly niche genre. With over 150,000 concurrent players at once at a point,…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. The latest in my series of videos looking at the real history behind Koei Tecmo’s Warriors games! As it was International Women’s Day this week, I felt it would be only appropriate to do a video focused on women in Warriors games. Sadly, the real history…
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