A spate of games that had been released on the iPhone and iPod Touch have been announced and coming out for the iPad as well, including Civilization Revolution, one of the best strategy games on the mobile platform.

As expected, the iPad version is expanded from the Apple mobile version. According to the press release:

The game offers hundreds of hours of gameplay from legendary developer Firaxis Games. Exclusive to the app is the World/Scenario Creator, an entirely new feature which allows players to customize the world and game parameters to create hundreds of different scenarios and game types, providing limitless hours of entertainment. Additionally, Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution App for iPad has been updated and optimized for the iPad’s large screen and includes an enhanced user interface that improves the fidelity of world map tiles, leader portraits and icons; and offers a broader view of the world map, enabling increased vision and strategy for tactical gameplay.

The expanded gameplay field can be seen in the image to the right. The game is similarly pricy, at $12.99, but the game is well worth it if you need your Civ on the go.

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Mezmer Games has announced Legio, a turn-based chess-style strategy game that resembles Heroes of Might & Magic for the PC.

The new gameplay movie showcases one of the main characters of Legio, the King, lurking around at night until he runs into an opponent slightly out of his own league, the Giant. The movie also displays the prominent gameplay elements of Legio. Each game starts with players setting up the game board and placing their battle units in position. In the actual battle, you can see how the different units move around, attack, and eventually die – all of it being performed differently by different characters. The movie clip also shows the timing element when attacking an enemy.

The game seems like an interesting digital download – you can visit the official site here.

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Ubisoft announced Tom Clancy’s EndWar is coming to the Nintendo DS and the PSP. Tom Clancy’s EndWar is a strategy game set in the future during World War III.

Players have the option of controlling U.S. Joint Strike Force, European Enforcers Corps or Russian Spetsnaz Guards Brigade in three different single player campaigns. The campaigns are different, but interwoven. Each campaign has 30 different battles to try to win. The battles might be in the future, during a war that has not happened, but the places of the war are real such as Paris and London.

Don’t like single player campaigns? Tom Clancy’s EndWar has multiplayer options, as well. Two players can compete against each other in 100 different scenerios or create their own.

The game is set to be released on November 4, 2008.

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Chronic Logic has released a turn based multi-player tactics game, Zatikon. Player have to construct an army to beat their opponent and have quite a few militia to choose. Players can build a ground army out of dragons, warriors, necromancers or holy Templard. But if attacking your opponent through the air is more your style, you can choose from archers, crossbow men or mages. There are multiple strategies to play, but I am guessing a combination of air and ground troops are the best bet, because it always seems to be.

Players don’t have to play against each other. They can play agains the computer in single player mode or wiht a friend in coop mode. Zatikon, also, offers a random army mode to keep things interesting.

If this sounds like a game you may be interested in, head over to cronic logic and try out the demo. The demo contains all of the game modes and does not contain a time limit. What do you have to lose?

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Taskforce 1.02 has been released. This version is a major update over all the other releases. Cornutopia Software has added a twelve man squad units and new maps to accommodate that feature. They have also tweaked the weapon damage and a faster easier way to start missions. You don’t need to equip all of your team before starting any more.

Taskforce: The Mutants of October Morgane is a turn based strategy game that puts you in charge of an elite squad of soldiers. Commanding your squad through a series of missions, you will encounter enemy troops, zombies and more as you confront evil megalomaniac October Morgane.

Each mission is different and any one mission can be played as a single game all by itself. There are random elements to all of the levels so that adds to the replay value.

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