Stories by Kyle Horner

R.U.S.E.

Setting the game in the over-trodden World War II era is probably the first misstep, as all of the locations you’ll visit have been seen by anyone who's played a first-person shooter or RTS in the last ten years. Then there's the story, which focuses...

The history of Starcraft

There's no doubt that StarCraft II's release has been breathlessly awaited; twelve years have passed since the original was released to much acclaim and fanfare and a lot has happened in that time. That's why we thought it would be interesting to tra...

APB: All Points Bulletin field report

The streets of San Paro are running red with the blood of the just and the guilty alike, and we've assigned reviewer Kyle Horner to the middle of the madness to bring us his impressions of Realtime Worlds' ambitious open-world MMO.

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight

The RTS genre has undergone a lot of change in the past few years. When the genre was first established, most games adhered strictly to the three basic fundamentals of harvesting resources, building bases and fielding massive armies of throwaway unit...

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising

Most real-time strategy expansions follow a typical formula: they add at least one new faction, some new units, a handful of new maps and maybe some extra single-player content. While Chaos Rising, the new expansion for Relic's amazing Dawn of War II...

Supreme Commander 2

Supreme Commander was a title that lovingly embraced established RTS conventions like base building and extensive micromanagement but it also introduced new ideas like a zoom-out tactical map, physics-based weapons fire, and massive armies consisting...