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Wage war through the second Punic War in Sega’s ancient Roman RTS, and get a whole bunch of new upgrades for Total War: Rome II with the Seasons & Wonders update.

What’s 2 1/4D, you ask? Well, it’s kind of like 2D and kind of like isometric view, but splits the difference between the two for a play experience that developer Roll7 calls ISO-Slant. Cover shooters never looked so slant-tastic.

Sega and Creative Assembly’s take on the Alien mythos will creep up on consoles and the PC this October.

Welcome to the first Sunday Review here on Brutal Gamer! Each week, we’ll be putting together the complete listing of stories from the week that was, as we catch you up on the biggest news, previews, and reviews that you might have missed from the past 7.

Lots of great stuff this week for you to peruse from the gaming mega-site including the top 20 best selling games of last-gen, 8 franchises that’d get a big time boost from VR, and why Batman: Arkham Knight might be one of the biggest games of 2014.

New DLC for Sega’s Company of Heroes sequel begins in two new armies and a new theater of war in the Western Front.

Cliffhanger Productions’ Kickstarted online Shadowrun title will be making its way to Steam’s Early Access section in just a few days time. Check out Cliffhanger Productions Co-Founder, Jan Wagner in today’s dev doc as he talks about what you can expect going forward.

If you’re tired of the same old boring, broken, fun-lacking formula used to make 4x strategy games, be  energized! There’s a new breed of 4x strategy game on the horizon called.. Horizon… yeah that was a bad joke.

And what’s a reveal without 20 minutes of gameplay from the upcoming strategy release?

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD has officially arrived on the PC via Steam.

Get a closer and more detailed look at the Arkham Knight and the Batman himself in this new round of screens for Warner Bros and Rocksteady’s hotly anticipated sequel.

Have a peek at the extensive motion captured animation and AI abilities of one of the biggest foes you’ll face in Hellraid in the new trailer for the game.

Fans of Jane Jensen are eagerly awaiting the release of her newest adventure title Moebius, and now you can get an early start if you preorder the game from DRM-free retailer GOG.com.

The latest take on the venerable Warhammer 40k universe from Games Workshop is a pretty unique strategy/tower defense affair with some interesting twists to the genre.

Bethesda’s newest Wolfenstein revival is getting some big time special edition love in the form of the super-limited Panzerhund Edition.

Behold, the Imperial city of Mordheim! The City of the Damned…