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Created by Lorenz Ruhmann and Rok Breulj, Conquest is a simultaneous turn-based online multiplayer strategy game placed in a dark and distant future. You will play the role of a futuristic Commander in order to conquer the world. Go to the official website for more information.

Download Conquest v0.9.4 for Windows (32 MB)
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This developer diary for The Lord of the Rings: Conquest goes into detail about playing the evil campaign. The campaign offers an alternate perspective of The Lord of the Rings fiction by asking "What if Frodo failed in destroying the ring?" Players would fight in the all-powerful Saron's army and battle all the familiar heroes from the story to conquer Middle-earth.

Download HD The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Evil Campaign Dev Diary (59 MB)
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The Lord of the Rings saga continues, this time from the point of view of a front line soldier in The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Players will be able to choose from a host of different classes and jump into the battlefield as either a fighter for good or a one of Sauron's creatures of evil. The game is currently scheduled to release in January of 2009.

Download HD The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Trailer (147 MB)
Download HD The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Teaser Trailer (707 MB)

It turns out that for all its fancy graphics, Command & Conquer 3 is quite primitive. That is to say, the challenge of the gameplay appeals to a primitive drive to conquer present in the male brain.

According to The Daily Mail, researchers studied men and women playing a video game with a territorial conquest aspect. They found that while women would play the game and perform well in it, they did not feel as compelled to play or win. The male subjects, on the other hand, were more likely to become hooked on the game. This was because the game stimulated the parts of the brain "traditionally associated with reward and addiction" more for men than for women, because of a primal drive to acquire and defend territory inherent in the male brain.

We'll note that there are some men who have no interest in such games, and some women who are passionate about them, but the article is intriguing anyway. If you're a man and you have a girlfriend or wife who's annoyed with you because you spend too much time fighting for control points in Team Fortress 2, you can just say "it's biology!" But it probably won't help. Ah, well.