Apart from looking like so much eye candy, Stormrise will also be bringing some interesting new gameplay features into the RTS arena such as players fighting in the frontlines instead of more traditional way of controlling units from a detached point of view. Since you'll be fighting for your life right alongside your units, check out the unit details at the full article.

Creative Assembly, the guys responsible for Total War, would love to see it on the consoles. So why don't they just totally do it? Seems like the consoles' specs aren't enough for them.

Sega has released a new video for their upcoming RTS, Stormrise (PS3, Xbox 360, PC). While the video's main focus is the Echelon Cougar Sniper unit, we also get to see a units from the tribal Sai faction in action.

Empire: Total War might not be console-bound, but Sega and Creative Assembly still have something cooking for console and PC RTS fans alike: Stormrise. Hit the full article for more info on this recently announced title as well as a look at its E3 2008 trailer.

It looks like everyone's dishing out there own version of "Gamer's Day." Sega's own rendition, however, may be the one to stand out from the rest, since its multi-genre, multi-platform, and multi-franchise collection is studded with highly-anticipated hopefuls. So aside from Iron Man and upcoming game adaptation of The Incredible Hulk, Sega laid out teasers for fans of Aliens, Total War and the stealthy action title, Alpha Protocol.

Looking for more updates on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game Viking: Battle for Asgard? Well you are just in time as we have another one for you today. Sega has opened the official website of the game.

Aside from that, a new trailer video has just been released which can be found in the said website. Click the "read more" link below to know the full details.

If you're craving for more updates regarding the upcoming video game title Viking: Battle for Asgard, then you've come to the right place. What we have for you today are new screenshots showing off the different characters you will meet in the game.

We are really interested in this particular title as it is being back-dropped by the Norse mythology. To check out the screenshots, go to the full article via the "read more" link below.

In case you're wondering, that isn't Kratos with a new mop of hair back from another mission from the gods. Rather this rugged barbarian, Skarin, is the hero of Sega's upcoming hack and slash game in Viking: Battle for Asgard. You can check out just some of the new screenshots we've collected from the game and see just how this newest action game looks.

Check out the whole spread of muscled screenshots we have right after the jump!

 

2K Games' BioShock is still riding waves of success, being top pick for various gamers around the world. The Swedish are no exception either, for the first-person shooter from 2K Games Boston and Australia steals number one spot for their all platforms chart - well the Xbox 360 version, that is.

It also managed to squeeze through four popular PC, MMO games in the region, which include NCSoft's Guild Wars expansion Eye of the North, Creative Assembly's Medieval II: Total War expansion Kingdoms, and Blizzard Entertainment's two-hit combo - World of Warcraft and World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade - in that order from second to fifth.

BioShock's Games for Windows version settled into sixth place, while Insomniac Games' Resistance: Fall of Man and Revolution Studios' Motorstorm also found a place in the top ten titles, having grabbed a solid seventh and eighth respectively. 

Counter-Strike 1: Anthology from Valve Software at ninth closed the PC game count to six in PC-dominated charts, while PS2 title Guitar Hero 2: Rock the 80's from RedOctane concluded the top ten games. In essence, Guild Wars: Eye of the North topped the PC list, Resistance: Fall of Man trumped the PS3 list, BioShock rocked the Xbox 360 chart, and Nintendo's Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess was king of the Wii mountain.

In the handheld scene, Nintendo's Pokemon Diamond was favored in the DS list, while WWE Smackdown vs RAW 2007 from THQ crushed competition in the PSP chart. Here's the top ten in the Swedish multi-format charts:

1. Bioshock (360)
2. Guild Wars Eye of the North (PC)
3. Medieval II Total War Kingdoms (PC)
4. World of Warcraft (PC)
5. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC)
6. Bioshock (PC)
7. Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3)
8. Motorstorm (PS3)
9. Counter-Strike 1: Anthology (PC)
10. Guitar Hero 2 Rock the 80´s (PS2)

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Though Creative Assembly, the developer behind the Total War series, believes that there's no doubt developers could create a great real-time strategy game on consoles, the devs were sure that the recently announced Empire: Total War won't be coming to any console in the near future. "It would be very, very difficult to make anything close to Total War on consoles," Mike Simpson, studio director, told CVG in an interview.

"You'd have to change too much about it to make it work," he continued. Apparently, the likes of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, and Battle for Middle Earth have all been ported to consoles, but were reflected by PC strategists as plain ports tweaked for gamepads. None were especially noteworthy in the blockbuster department.

Simpson also held this sentiment:

There were a few RTS games developers ported to consoles - and they did it really badly. ... Then pretty much the whole market said 'whoa - you can't do RTS games on consoles'. But it's because they were ports - bad ports.

Although the industry hasn't created a great console RTS, there's still hope that it might. Simpson said that all developers need to do is to plan an RTS from the ground up as a purely console game.