From now until October 31, 2010, Matrix Gamesis having a sale on three of its best titles, John Tiller’s Campaign Series, Steel Panthers: World at War – General’s Edition and Norm Kroger’s Operational Art of War III, with prices reduced from 25% to 50%. If everyone was a wargamer, these games as a whole offer something for everyone.

Although Matrix is calling this a Fall sale, they’re only running it a week, ending it on Halloween. I guess if you’re looking for something to do besides answer the door and hand out candy, these games give a good reason to turn off the porch light and hide in the computer room. That said, these are all turn-based games, so it’s not like you’ll get shot or something if you get up to answer the call of costumed candy-beggars.

PC game publisher Matrix Games has announced the late 2010 release of Panzer Command: Ostfront, the latest in the Panzer Command series of war games. This incredibly flexible series of 3D turn-based games based on World War II tank battles handles operations from the smallest of scales up to full warfare campaigns.

Ostfront will be available free to owners of Panzer Command: Kharkov, as it replaces that and Panzer Command: Winterstorm, including the content of both as well as new battles and many bug fixes and rules tweaks.

Matrix Games and IQ Software’s World War II: Road to Victory has another update incoming. If you’ve been keeping up with the game patches, then you’ll know its time for 1.30. That’s pretty quick, considering the last patch (1.210) arrived November 13, 2008, and the patch before that (1.201) was released way back on August 21, 2008.

The actual changes and improvements added to World War II: Road to Victory by the 1.30 patch are a bit vague. Supposedly it improves computer controlled opponent’s AI and makes the game more realistic, but the site and press release don’t say how the NPC intelligence improves or what makes the game seem more real…