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The Banner Saga 2: "we want to make combat more nuanced"

Gamereactor talked to Stoic's John Watson about the refinements coming in the second part of The Banner Saga.

"The second one is intended to be cohesive and coherent with the first," the game's technical director told us, "so we're not taking any left turns or making any major gameplay changes. We want it to feel like a continuation...

"That being said we felt like we could benefit by greater variety in combat, so we have more combat scenarios, more win conditions, lots more characters and classes, a lot of scripted events and storytelling in the combat scenarios. So we want to make combat feel more nuanced, feel like it's part of the world."

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Best Offline Strategy Games for Android

What follows is a list of the best offline strategy games for Android circa 2020. In other words, the best Android strategy games you can play without Wi-Fi. You can thank us when your dad pays the cell phone bill.

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Ten Best Tactical Mobile Games

There are few things more gratifying in gaming than skillfully turning the tide of a conflict. And few genres provide as many opportunities to abruptly reverse the odds via skill and forethought as tactical strategy. To be sure, we are more often than not talking about turn-based tactical mobile games, specifically titles in line with the iconic landmark series (XCOM and Jagged Alliance) that made the genre a genre.

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“The Banner Saga 2” is now available on Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass Subscription Service

Stoic, an independent game development company, and Versus Evil, one of the leading independent video game publishers, today announced that The Banner Saga 2 is now available on the Xbox Game Pass subscription service.