Strategy

Casual gaming king PopCap has released Bejeweled for Google's Chrome browser, with Plants Vs Zombies and Peggle to be available on Android Market later this week. More >

Electronic Arts has announced Command & Conquer Generals 2, promising to take the beloved strategy series "back to its roots". The game, announced at the Spike VGA event on Saturday night, runs on DICE's Frostbite 2 engine, is exclusive to PC and will be released in 2013. It's being developed by Victory Games, the strategy studio EA set up in February which is now part of the BioWare label and has been renamed BioWare Victory. More >

Iron Brigade, known outside Europe as Trenched, will be released on Xbox Live Arcade on November 30. The European release of Double Fine's mech tower defence game was held up due to a trademark dispute, with a Portuguese designer claiming that, under the name Trenched, the game would violate his trademark for a war-themed board game called Trench. More >

Double Fine has blamed the ongoing delay for the European release of Iron Brigade on Microsoft's famously arduous certification process, which has been further complicated by the change from its original name, Trenched, amid fears of a protracted trademark battle. Trenched - released in the US in June - was delayed in Europe due to a potential violation of a trademark held by a Portuguese designer for his board game Trench. The name was changed in August and was due for release the following month, but it is yet to appear on the Xbox Live Marketplace. More >

Tecmo Koei has taken the unusual step of giving an exclusive bundle to independent retailers. MCV reports that UK indies ordering stock of the game - released last Friday - will receive a figurine of Fuka, one of the game's characters, for each copy. The figure will not be available from major high street chains. More >

Turn-based strategy title Frozen Synapse will be released for iPad next year, developer Mode7 has announced. More than 30,000 copies of the game have been sold across Windows, Mac and Linux, the Oxford-based developer says, thanks in no small part to it featuring in its own Humble Bundle earlier this year. More >

A poll on the Facebook page of Starbreeze Studios' Syndicate reboot appears to be guaging interest for an HD remake of Bullfrog's 1993 original. More >

Blizzard Entertainment is to allow modders to charge for their creations through Blizzard Arcade, a revised version of the Blizzard Marketplace to launch alongside StarCraft II expansion Heart Of The Swarm. The publisher revealed Arcade, a hub for free and premium user-made mods and games created using the StarCraft II mod tools, during a panel at this weekend's Blizzcon event in California. More >

Uplink developer puts Subversion on hold while it focuses on a brand new project instead. More >