Darkkeep

Here's an interesting game which has just been released retail in europe and is now available for preload on steam.

The main game features (as taken from the offical site)

Main game features:

• Seemless combination of two genres RTS and RPG with a possibility to combine or choose in-between.
• Massive battles of armies of many thousand units.
• Four unique races. Individual skills, spells and artifacts.
• 12 heroes, 12 neutral races, 100 different units and 150 different buildings.
• Over 150 magic items and more than 100 spell types.
• Peculiar and captivating campaign storyline created by a renowned author Ilya Novak.
• Original magic system based on cards with spells equally interesting to any kind of player. Over 50 spell cards.
• Classic multiplayer mode. Up to 7 players via LAN or Internet.
• Involving process of hero development through the gameplay.

You can download the demo via steam here

Rev Hellfire wrote: Peculiar and captivating campaign storyline created by a renowned author Ilya Novak.

Who?

Original magic system based on cards with spells equally interesting to any kind of player.

Magic Cards! So, completely uninteresting then?

Classic multiplayer mode. Up to 7 players via LAN or Internet.

Classic multiplayer, that would be a lagfest with 250ms pings with PJOD's then, as thats how I remember old style classic multiplayer.

that looks alright from description, may even dl the demo.

i found magic the gathering to be a great magic card game. not played it in years, but i still got my deck.