The Middle Ages were a scary time for anyone, but it helps when you can build a castle fortress with the click of a mouse. If you've ever wanted a game that combines strategic city management and throwing dead cows at bad guys, Stronghold 3 may just be the game for you. This hybrid of city-builder and real-time strategy tasks you with constructing a medieval fortress and then defending it from enemy forces. We've just had the chance to see it in action here at Gamescom 2010, so let's take a look at what to expect.

We take a peek at an early level from this action RPG based on the society of knights. If you’ve read our previous coverage on The First Templar, then you might already know that it’s a third-person action-RPG that focuses on the Knights Templar, or more specifically, one Templar and his quest to retrieve the Holy Grail. But during that quest, the game’s storyline will begin to raise moral questions--are men better of immortal or mortal? Did the Holy Grail come from the Devil to trick men?

Getting people where they need to go is job one in this public transportation simulator.

One of the things that separates Gamescom from the rest of the year's big gaming events is the sheer abundance of niche PC strategy games on display. Think of an occupation and chances are, you'll be able to find a sim of it here in Cologne, Germany. One such example is Cities in Motion, a public transportation simulator that we've just had a look at earlier today.

Cities in Motion is being developed by a startup Finnish studio by the name of Colossal Order. You can choose form four big European Cities--Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna, Helsinki--and then play as that city's public transport chief, albeit one able to command far more instantaneous results than any real-life beaurocrat. The basic idea of the game is that the city has an economic pulse independent of you. The city's classes are always changing, new jobs are being formed in different parts of town, and buildings are popping up to meet the needs of the citizens. Your job as public transportation head is to build transit lines, vehicles, and stations to meet the needs of a town that's constantly changing.

You can guess where citizens need to go based on their type of job, and whether they're transit needs are being met by the smiley/sad icon above their heads. You can then choose to dip into your finite budget to buy a new transit vehicle and select the line for it to run on. There are five vehicle types: buses, trams, metro, helicopter, and boat. The usefulness and capability of these vehicles changes over time, too, as the campaign stretches from 1920 to 2020 so you'll need to keep an eye on outdated infrastructure and the sweetest new buses to invest in. There are also economic trends to keep abreast of, which affect both your budget and transit lines (out of work people don't really go to the office any more, do they?).

Cities in Motion is scheduled to release early next year. We're told by publisher Paradox Interactive that the game is aiming for low system requirements. Oddly enough, you might just be able to play it on a laptop during your train ride to work.

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Take on the role of the villain in this Dungeon Keeper inspired strategy game. To describe Dungeons in its simplest terms--it’s a game heavily inspired by the Bullfrog classic strategy game, Dungeon Keeper. From top to bottom, you’re in complete control of your very own dungeon, playing as the Dungeon Lord who acts as your dungeon’s main guardian. You can maneuver him through the dungeon using the standard W,A,S,D keyboard control format and give orders to minions using the mouse. In the first part of the demo we saw, the Dungeon Lord is venturing back to his part of the underworld when he stumbles across some heroes.