I'm trying to reverse engineer the distinctive look of classic RTS games and CRPGs. It's the isometric view, it's the sprites, and it's the over-designed, semi screen-filling menus and interaction ...

Do you long for Command and Conquer 5? Save the 2020 remastered collection, we haven't seen a new main-series C&C game in 15 years. Perhaps we never will again. But Tempest Rising is filling that gap.

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...