Pan Vision and Fabrication Games has announced the release of World in War for the iPhone/iPod Touch and the iPad. The game allows users to play as either the Allied or German forces in World War II.

Players will be able to test out their tactical skills as they play through Stalingrad, El Alamein, Operation Torch, Barbarossa, Overlord and other historic campaigns. Players can play against the computer, a friend or online in head to head competition. It is a race to see which player can gather the most resources and from their occupied lands and build those resources into a great army to defend their territories.

“ I have played many fantastic strategy games with my friends…”comments game designer Tommy Palm of Fabrication Games, “… but most require a huge investment of time to play in one sitting. We wanted to replace those time ‐ killers with a quick to learn accessible experience for the iOS handheld platforms. W orld in War is a reaction to that urge.

The iPhone/iPod game will set you back $2.99 and the iPad version will set you back $6.99.

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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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