A remake, Battle Chess: Game of Kings, was released on Steam on December 11, 2015.īattle Chess follows the same rules as traditional chess, with pieces moving in an animated fashion and battles playing out so that the capturing piece defeats its target. In 1991, Battle Chess Enhanced was released by Interplay for IBM PC compatibles and Macintosh with improved VGA graphics and a symphonic musical score played from the CD-ROM.īattle Chess was critically acclaimed and commercially successful, resulting in two official follow-ups as well as several inspired games. It was developed and released by Interplay Entertainment for the Amiga in 1988 and ported to many other systems, including the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga CD32, Amiga CDTV, Apple IIGS, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, FM Towns, Nintendo Entertainment System, MacOS, PC-98, X68000, and Microsoft Windows.
He has over seven years of experience in the gaming industry with bylines at IGN, Nintendo Wire, Switch Player Magazine, and Lifewire.Cover art showing the red queen killing a blue knightĪmiga, 3DO, Archimedes, CD32, CDTV, Apple IIGS, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, FM Towns, NES, Mac, PC-98, X68000, Windowsīattle Chess is a video game version of chess with 2.5D graphics and fighting animations showing the result of one piece moving onto the square of another. Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN covering video game and entertainment news.
Nadella also explained that his general philosophy is to put software on more platforms, not fewer, saying, "That's the Microsoft I grew up in, I believe in that."Įarlier today, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick also spoke on the topic of exclusives, saying he has no plans to remove Call of Duty from PlayStation because the move would be "detrimental" to Activision's business.īlogroll credit: Mat Hayward / Getty Images The "dominant player" Nadella is referring to is certainly Sony, which builds its PlayStation library on the back of AAA exclusives like God of War, Horizon, Spider-Man, and more. I have no love for that world." "I would love to get rid of the entire sort of exclusives on consoles.
"Especially as a low share player in the console market that the dominant player there has defined market competition using exclusives, and so that's that's the world we live in. "If it was up to me, I would love to get rid of the entire sort of exclusives on consoles, but that's not up to me to define," Nadella said.
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