Strategising expressed in real-time, turn-based and the time-bending variants in between has been a cornerstone of gaming since close to its infancy. Here's a selection of the very best examples of strategy games to ever grace the medium.

After our lengthy and likely to be continued romp through the very best that strategy games have to offer, it's time to talk methodology and have a look at the generally unenviable position the genre occupies in the modern gaming landscape.

Blackbird Interactive released an update for their real-time strategy title Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak. The update brought back the series' tactical pause, skirmish and multiplayer AI, along with crushing some of the usual bugs.

Homeworld: Cataclysm, a standalone expansion for Relic's 1999 Homeworld just got a GOG.com treatment and it's on sale now along with Deserts of Kharak. The new release was renamed to Emergence because of trademark concernes.

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