Empire is an action-strategy hybrid from 1986 available on PC and Commodore/Amiga systems. The game's legacy continues to influence modern developers working within empire-building frameworks across various genres.
Recent coverage highlights how the empire-building concept has evolved across contemporary titles. Evil Empire, known for Dead Cells, recently secured an unusual opportunity when Konami approached them about creating a full Castlevania game after the studio initially pitched a Dead Cells crossover DLC. Elsewhere, the tycoon space has seen new entries like Highway Heroes, which tasks players with establishing a trucking operation across America, and American Mafia, which frames empire expansion through the lens of organized crime progression, beginning in Sicily and expanding to North America. These releases demonstrate how the foundational empire-building template remains viable across mobile, console, and premium gaming spaces.
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Fantagraphics is kicking off a new curated line of East Asian graphic novels with Lovers of the Empire, and we've got an exclusive preview of this gorgeous book.
Every crime boss starts somewhere. In American Mafia, that journey begins with a hungry child stealing bread on the streets of Sicily before expanding into a sprawling crime saga that stretches from Europe to the heart of New York City. The post American Mafia Arrives On Xbox, In…
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I feel like we've discussed the trucking life a few times already on the Pocket Gamer Podcast, but here it is - Highway Heroes is a tycoon sim where, as you might expect, you live the truck tycoon life. Out now on iOS and Android after it announced its soft-launch last year, it t…
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Evil Empire is said to have approached Konami about a Castlevania DLC for Dead Cells, at which Konami offered to work with the studio on a full game.
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A few weeks ago, I traveled to Paris to play three hours of Castlevania: Belmont's Curse , and while there, I had the chance to speak with some of the developers who worked on the game. The project is an indie developer's dream come true, since developer Evil Empire originally wo…