Their Finest Hour Is Due This Week
If you’re a fan of World War 2 tactical wargames, your December is about to be a lot better, because the new DLC for the best real-time strategy game you can play in 2025 is coming out on December 2nd. Finest Hour, for Call to Arms, brings two new single-player campaigns. One for the Commonwealth, with 7 scripted missions and 3 skirmishes, portraying the British Expeditionary Force from the first days of the war all the way to 1945 in Germany. The second campaign is played from the German perspective with 5 scripted missions and 1 skirmish, and will follow pretty much the same spirit as the British one. The missions will depict the successful operations into France as Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division, and end with the desperate last stand on German soil in 1945. This is a day one buy for me.
Slitherine And Matrix Christmas Sale Is Live Now, For A Month
You’re not reading it wrong. In 2025, the Slitherine and Matrix Christmas Sale is already live, and it’s going to be live until January 6. With most of its catalogue on sale, maybe it’s time to give their store a look and start stocking up on strategy and wargaming to fill your Christmas sock with. I’ll be penning an article about the best available deals in the next couple of days. Stay tuned for that.
The Steam Awards 2025 Are Live And You Can Cast Your Vote
The Steam Awards 2025 are live, and you can nominate your favorite strategy games until December 1st, 10AM Pacific Time. I would tell you what my game of the year nomination would be, but I’ll be revealing my GOTY next week on Saturday! The winners of the Steam Awards will be announced on January 3rd.
Super Weapons Are Coming To Tempest Rising
Tempest Rising is embracing its inner Command & Conquer-esque silliness at last, and the game is going to receive its first “superweapons”! By popular demand, the majority of players wanted the team to dial it up to 11, and now the GDF is going to be receiving a Drone Strike Station that works in the most brain-twisting way possible (and I love it). From the looks of it, it’s launching nice tungsten Drone Turrets into an area, dealing area of effect damage, but also spawns nine autonomous combat turrets that lose power after a minute of combat. Because, why not? Am I right?
The Dynasty is going full James Bond villain mode with its “Excavator Platform” (a boring name for a superweapon, but okay, why not something cool like “The Tempest Mole” or “The Worminator”). This new building can garrison assault teams into drill pods that can then traverse the ground and breach the surface for a surprise attack! The Excavator also has a powerful combat excavator that can also carry units, but unleashes a massive damage wave. This is all silly, but this is what Tempest Rising should have been from the start, in my opinion.
ICBM: Escalation New DLC
Slitherine’s world-ending simulation has just launched a new DLC called United States of Annihilation. In this alt-history scenario, the year is 1949, and you play as the United States, and you’re determined to bend the world to your will. With a monopoly on the use of nuclear weapons and an unmatched military, you’ll crush every dissident nation that refuses to sing along to the tunes of the House of Mouse, eat hamburgers, and drink Coca-Cola. For extra cynicism, maybe play this DLC with Amerika from Rammstein on repeat.
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