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  • The Empire is Calling: A New Era for the Anno Franchise

    The Empire is Calling: A New Era for the Anno Franchise

    For decades, the Anno franchise has captivated strategy fans with its intricate supply chains, beautiful world-building, and deep economic simulation. Now, the series takes its boldest step yet, transporting us back to antiquity with Anno 117: Pax Romana. Set in the year 117 AD, the height of the Roman Empire’s power and a time of relative peace, this newest instalment promises an engrossing blend of classic city-builder mechanics and compelling historical choice.

    Governor, Your Provinces Await

    Anno 117: Pax Romana places you directly in the sandals of a Roman Governor, tasked with shaping your assigned provinces. For the first time in the series, you get to choose your starting location, a decision that deeply influences your initial gameplay experience:

    • Latium: The Roman heartland. Expect familiar, fertile Mediterranean landscapes and classical Roman architecture, offering a more traditional Anno experience focused on refined production and growth.
    • Albion: The mysterious Celtic frontier. Here, you’ll grapple with unique challenges like draining marshlands and establishing new supply chains based on Celtic resources like eels, reeds, and wattle-and-daub. This region presents a wilder, more challenging environment to “Romanise.”

    This geographic duality isn’t just cosmetic; it’s a fundamental choice that shapes your political, cultural, and economic path.

    Build, Trade, and Conquer: Classic Anno, New Choices

    At its core, Anno 117 maintains the beloved formula: build sprawling, detailed cities, establish complex production lines to meet your citizens’ evolving needs, and expand your influence across multiple islands through trade and diplomacy.

    Key New Features to Look Forward To:

    • Cultural Choice & Romanisation: Will you enforce strict Roman laws and traditions, or will you honour and integrate local Celtic culture? Your choice impacts your populace’s happiness and the specific gameplay bonuses you unlock.
    • Flexible Needs System: The game introduces an “Optional Needs” system, offering a softer, more user-friendly progression path. While you’re rewarded for meeting all needs, you can still advance your population tiers by only partially fulfilling certain categorised requirements, making the early game less overwhelming for newcomers.
    • Dynamic Religion System: You can choose a local deity to worship for each island. These religious choices grant powerful, unique psychological effects and gameplay bonuses to your population—for example, worshipping Neptune might make your fishermen more efficient.
    • Return of Land Combat: Military enthusiasts rejoice! Both tactical land and naval battles are returning to the core gameplay loop, providing a new dimension to dealing with rivals, pirates, and even rebellious factions.
    • Building Diagonally: A long-requested feature from the community has finally made it in! You can now place buildings diagonally, allowing for more organic, aesthetically pleasing, and flexible city layouts.

    The Cost of Peace is Yours to Decide

    The subtitle, Pax Romana, refers to a period of relative peace, but as Governor, you’ll quickly learn that peace is a fragile and negotiated state. Your ultimate destiny is not pre-written.

    • Will you remain a Loyalist to the Emperor, ensuring your provinces contribute faithfully to the Empire’s vast coffers?
    • Or will you choose the path of a Rebel, focusing on self-sufficiency and perhaps even defying Imperial rule for greater autonomy?

    This is a strategy game wrapped in a deep role-playing narrative. Every decision—from setting up a trading route to choosing your province’s patron god—will define your legacy and determine the fate of your citizens.

    Get Ready to Govern

    Developed by Ubisoft Mainz, Anno 117: Pax Romana is set to launch on November 13, 2025, across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Whether you’re a veteran Anno player or looking for a rich, historically inspired city-builder to sink hundreds of hours into, this promises to be a compelling and beautiful experience.

    Prepare to build, rule, and shape the greatest empire the world has ever known.

    Anno 117: Pax Romana – https://store.ubisoft.com/uk/anno-117–pax-romana/6638e5dcaa201a2d55bcc772.html

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  • The Fall of Rome is out on Monday

    The Fall of Rome is out on Monday

    There were many factors leading to the collapse of the Roman Empire, but here is a chance to shape history using tactics and cunning in this turn-based game. The Fall of Rome is in your hands. Maybe the Roman Empire will survive under your direction. Are you ready to take control of the empire? The Fall of Rome is launching on PC through Steam on Monday.

    To find out more about the Fall of Rome, go to the developer’s website here https://billionworlds.com or go to the games page on Steam here https://shorturl.at/cypmR

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  • Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder coming to Steam soon

    Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder coming to Steam soon

    Players find themselves on the outer reaches of the Roman Empire in charge of a new city, they must take control of the city, the people, army and make sure that the city grows in order to return the investment back to the empire. This may sound easy enough but it is never going to be easy, there are rebels, traitors and natural disasters all hell-bent on stopping the city from growing. The Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder will be launching on Steam Early Access in early April.

    To find out more about the Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder game go to the official game website here coreffect.ca or go to the games page on Steam here https://shorturl.at/LF67s

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  • Asterix and Obelix Slap Them All!

    Asterix and Obelix Slap Them All!

    Well, these guys are back, Asterix and Obelix are on a mission to Slap Them All into oblivion and with the hope that they are not going to get up and come back at them. This is classic gaming at its best, it’s fun, it’s ferocious and it’s based on a classic story that goes way back into history before gaming was even thought of, this is going to be epic.

    This is the return for Asterix and Obelix as they take on the mighty Roman Empire who are occupying the home of the Gauls in northern France. In true Asterix style, these two characters move around in the occupied zone with one mission in mind and that is to Slap Them All in order to drive them out of Gaul forever.

    Find out more about the Asterix and Obelix Slap Them All game here; https://www.microids.com/game-asterix-obelix-slap-them-all/

    #Asterix #Obelix #SlapThemAll #AsterixObelixSlapThemAll #Romans #Gauls #France #Rebels #Invasion #Games #Gaming #EpicGames