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Box Art N/A Platform Win, Xbox One Publisher Microsoft Studios Developer The Creative Assembly Release Date Feb 21, 2017

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Halo Wars 2 review

By Arthur Gies on Feb 16, 2017 02.16.17

Halo Wars 2 feels like the relic of two different histories. On the one side you'd find the real-time strategy genre, a collection of games that found a brief period of big-budget dominance on...

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