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Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle For Russia
''Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia'' is a turn-based strategy computer game and the only release by Binary Evolution Studios, a small independent development team based in Nuremberg, Germany. The game depicts the Eastern Front theatre from 1941–1945. The gameplay is strongly influenced by Panzer General II and the graphics are displayed in a 3D environment using the OGRE Engine. It was developed from December 2006 to August 2009 (English version). In February 2010 a German version was released. Gameplay Structure and content In ''Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia'', the player leads divisions of Germany, Romania or Russia through single scenarios or in campaigns, a string of scenarios each representing a specific battle on the Eastern Front. The campaigns are strictly historical. The first campaign is a small tutorial campaign of four scenarios length. The second campaign Operation Barbarossa consists of nine scenarios and takes place from J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matrix Games
Matrix Games is a publisher of PC games, specifically strategy games and wargames. It is based in Ohio, US, and Surrey, UK. Their focus is primarily but not exclusively on wargames and turn-based strategy. The product line-up also includes space sims ('' Starshatter: The Gathering Storm''), sports management sims ('' Maximum-Football''), and real-time strategy titles ('' Close Combat: Cross of Iron''). Matrix Games publishes games from a variety of developers, including SSG, 2by3 Games, Panther Games, Koios Works, Destroyer Studios, Western-Civilization and AGEOD. History Matrix Games was founded by David Heath, Erik Rutins, Patty Rutins and Paul Vebber in 1999 in Staten Island, New York City. As of January 2010, Matrix Games has published over 75 titles. Matrix has in-house artists, programmers, and producers which all take active roles in projects of smaller wargame developers who lack the resources to hire full-time staff otherwise. In May 2010, Matrix Games and Slit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Army Group North
Army Group North () was the name of three separate army groups of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Its rear area operations were organized by the Army Group North Rear Area. The first Army Group North was deployed during the invasion of Poland and subsequently renamed Army Group B. The second Army Group North was created on 22 June 1941 from the former Army Group C and used in the northern sector of the Eastern Front from 1941 to January 1945. By then, this second Army Group North had gotten trapped in the Courland Pocket and was accordingly redesignated Army Group Courland. On the same day, the former Army Group Center, which was now defending the northernmost sector of the contiguous Eastern Front, was renamed Army Group North, assuming the status of the third and final iteration of the army group. First deployment of Army Group North: September – October 1939 The staff of Army Group North was formally assembled on 2 September 1939 from the headquarters of 2nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Computer Wargames
A computer wargame is a wargame played on a digital device. Descended from board wargaming, it simulates military conflict at the tactical, operational or strategic level. Computer wargames are both sold commercially for recreational use and, in some cases, used for military purposes. History Computer wargames derived from tabletop wargames, which range from military wargaming to recreational wargaming. Wargames appeared on computers as early as ''Empire'' in 1972. The wargaming community saw the possibilities of computer gaming early and made attempts to break into the market, notably Avalon Hill's Microcomputer Games line, which began in 1980 and covered a variety of topics, including adaptations of some of their wargames. In February 1980 Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was the first to sell a serious, professionally packaged computer wargame, '' Computer Bismarck'', a turn-based game based on the last battle of the battleship ''Bismarck''. Wargame designer Gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II Video Games
Below is a list of video games that center on World War II for their setting. Adventure game, Adventure games ''Indiana Jones'' series Alternate history franchise *''Indiana Jones in Revenge of the Ancients'' (1987) *''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure'' (1989) *''Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'' (1992) ''A Stroke of Fate'' series *''A Stroke of Fate: Operation Valkyrie'' (2009) *''A Stroke of Fate: Operation Bunker'' (2009) Charles Games' FMV series *''Attentat 1942'' (2017) *''Svoboda 1945: Liberation'' (2021) Other adventure games *''Trinity (video game), Trinity'' (1986) *''Remembering Pearl Harbor'' (2016) (VR) *''Paradise Lost (2021 video game), Paradise Lost'' (2021) (alternate history) *''Gerda: A Flame in Winter'' (2022) *''Train to Sachsenhausen'' (2022) (mobile) *''Torn Away'' (2023) *''Aviators'' (2024) (Free. Multi-genre.) *''The Darkest Files'' (2025) (Post-war) *''When We Disappear'' (TBA, 2026?) Action-adventure game, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windows Games
This is an index of Microsoft Windows Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ... games. This list has been split into multiple pages. Please use the Table of Contents to browse it. This list contains game titles across all lists. Notes See also * Lists of video games * Index of DOS games * List of Windows 3.x games * List of cancelled Windows games {{Index footer Windows Windows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Games Developed In Germany
Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) systems, which, in turn, were replaced by flat-panel displays of several types. Video systems vary in display resolution, aspect ratio, refresh rate, color capabilities, and other qualities. Analog and digital variants exist and can be carried on a variety of media, including radio broadcasts, magnetic tape, optical discs, computer files, and network streaming. Etymology The word ''video'' comes from the Latin verb ''video,'' meaning to see or ''videre''. And as a noun, "that which is displayed on a (television) screen," History Analog video Video developed from facsimile systems developed in the mid-19th century. Early mechanical video scanners, such as the Nipkow disk, were patented as early as 1884, however, it took several decades b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turn-based Strategy Video Games
Timekeeping is relevant to many types of games, including video games, tabletop role-playing games, board games, and sports. The passage of time must be handled in a way that players find fair and easy to understand. In many games, this is done using real-time and/or turn-based timekeeping. In real-time games, time within the game passes continuously. However, in turn-based games, player turns represent a fixed duration within the game, regardless of how much time passes in the real world. Some games use combinations of real-time and turn-based timekeeping systems. Players debate the merits and flaws of these systems. There are also additional timekeeping methods, such as timelines and progress clocks. Real-time In real-time games, time progresses continuously. This may occur at the same or different rates from the passage of time in the real world. For example, in ''Terraria'', one day-night cycle of 24 hours in the game is equal to 24 minutes in the real world. In a multiplay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play-by-email Video Games
A play-by-mail game (also known as a PBM game, PBEM game, turn-based game, turn based distance game, or an interactive strategy game.) is a game played through postal mail, email, or other digital media. Correspondence chess and Go (game), Go were among the first PBM games. ''Diplomacy (board game), Diplomacy'' has been played by mail since 1963, introducing a multi-player aspect to PBM games. Flying Buffalo Inc. pioneered the first commercially available PBM game in 1970. A small number of PBM companies followed in the 1970s, with an explosion of hundreds of startup PBM companies in the 1980s at the peak of PBM gaming popularity, many of them small hobby companies—more than 90 percent of which eventually folded. A number of independent PBM magazines also started in the 1980s, including ''The Nuts & Bolts of PBM'', ''Gaming Universal'', ''Paper Mayhem'' and ''Flagship (magazine), Flagship''. These magazines eventually went out of print, replaced in the 21st century by the online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Video Games
2009 saw many new installments in established video game franchises, such as '' Assassin's Creed II'', '' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'', '' Uncharted 2: Among Thieves'', '' Wii Sports Resort'', '' New Super Mario Bros. Wii'', ''Resident Evil 5'', '' Left 4 Dead 2'', '' Forza Motorsport 3'', '' The Beatles: Rock Band'', '' The Sims 3'', '' Madden NFL 10'', '' NBA 2K10'', and ''FIFA 10''. New intellectual properties include '' Batman: Arkham Asylum'', ''Bayonetta'', '' Borderlands'', '' Demon's Souls'', '' Dragon Age: Origins'', '' Infamous'', '' Just Dance'', ''Minecraft, Plants vs. Zombies,'' and ''Prototype''. Major awards Best-selling games The following are the top ten best-selling games of 2009 in terms of worldwide retail sales. Events Notable deaths * June 3 – David Carradine, 72, actor who played Clockwork in '' Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy'' and William Sharp in ''Saints Row''. * June 25 – Michael Jackson, 50, musician who ( in addition to vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Blau
Case Blue (German: ''Fall Blau'') was the ''Wehrmacht'' plan for the 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942, during World War II. The objective was to capture the oil fields of Baku (Azerbaijan SSR), Grozny and Maikop for two purposes: to enable the Germans to re-supply their low fuel stock and also to deny their use to the Soviet Union, thereby bringing about the complete collapse of the Soviet war effort. After Operation Barbarossa failed to destroy the Soviet Union as a political and military threat the previous year, Adolf Hitler, the ''Führer'' of Nazi Germany, recognized that Germany was now locked in a war of attrition, and he was also aware that Germany was running low on fuel supply and would not be able to continue attacking deeper into enemy territory without more stock. With this in mind, Hitler ordered for the preparation of offensive plans for summer 1942 to secure the Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus. The op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turn-based Strategy
Strategy video game is a major video game genre that focuses on analyzing and strategizing over direct quick reaction in order to secure success. Although many types of video games can contain strategic elements, the strategy genre is most commonly defined by a primary focus on high-level strategy, logistics and resource management. They are also usually divided into two main sub-categories: turn-based and real-time, but there are also many strategy cross/sub-genres that feature additional elements such as tactics, diplomacy, economics and exploration. Typical experience A player must plan a series of actions against one or more opponents, and the reduction of enemy forces is usually a goal. Victory is achieved through superior planning, and the element of chance takes a smaller role. In most strategy video games, the player is given a godlike view of the game world, and indirectly controls game units under their command. Thus, most strategy games involve elements of warfare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
