Steve Grammont went from film student to history buff to game programmer. All plans change upon first contact with the enemy. For Grammont, the more outgoing of Battlefront.com's two founders, his ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. When Big Time Software released Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord last year, it became one of the most critically acclaimed games in recent years, ...

Battlefront's award-winning Combat Mission series set a high standard not just for the wargame genre but for the developer as well. Over three separate releases covering three different theaters of ...

At the start of 2000, PC wargaming was in a rather sorry state. While other genres had been quick to exploit new technology and explore new ideas, developers specialising in realistic military ...

The heyday of turn-based, squad-based, company-level tactical wargaming set in the Second World War on the PC may have come and gone. Combat Mission was probably the ultimate expression of this genre; ...

If you know about Combat Mission Shock Force 2, then you know that it's a big deal that it's finally arrived on Steam. Battlefront's simulation-heavy wargames have only been available from the ...

The names of the first female U.S. military combat pilots, who flew missions in 1994-1995 after the combat exclusion law was lifted in 1993, have finally been released decades later. These pioneering ...

Staff Sgt. Daniel Keller is credited with helping to save 130 lives. A special operations airman was awarded the Air Force Cross on Friday at a ceremony that recognized his actions during a 2017 ...

Charlie Hall is Polygon’s tabletop editor. In 12-plus years as a journalist & photographer, he has covered simulation, strategy, and spacefaring games, as well as public policy. On Tuesday, ...

A U.S. official told ABC News the change in mission is more of a semantic one. President Joe Biden said the U.S. is "not going to be, by the end of the year, in a combat mission" in Iraq. The ...

An Afghan army Humvee patrols June 21 in Kunduz city, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, just before the Taliban took over the provincial capital. Thousands of U.S. troops are deploying to Kabul in ...

Rick Warren is a Senior Features Editor from the United States. He is a lifelong gamer and comics fan who loves writing about everything in nerd culture, and absolutely adores Trophy hunting on PSN.