Somebody please stop the boat so I can get on; it left without me.

After working in the video game business for two years now and especially after playing video games most of my life I thought I had it all figured out. Games come out, I review them; some are bad, some are good and some take it to the extreme of either bad or good.

Only if life as a gamer could be this simple! But it is not and the main reason is money. Gaming used to be a hobby for the like minded but in today's society it has become a major business. The video game market has become such a money maker that some economy critics go as far as to call it one of the few business in today's society that is actually recession-proof.

And let's face it! Video games have become the number one babysitter and educator. Soccer camp, piano lessons or even a math tutor cost way more than a couple video games a month. And when both parents have to work to try to make enough money to save their house in such an unstable market, can you really blame video games for taking over? When I first started reviewing games just a couple of years ago, each moth saw on the average of about ten titles spread out across multiple systems. Now, each month sees somewhere between 15 to 25 games being released each month. It is almost impossible to keep track of each new game. And believe me, I try. That's why I'm rather disappointed that I missed one of THQ's possible biggest releases this year: Warhammer 40K - Dawn of War II. I haven't played the first Down of War but I do know one thing about the series: it falls in the RTS (real-time-strategy) category. RTS games are either a complete hit or a complete miss with me so this review should be interesting. The next 30 days sees the release of about 5 other RTSs, so the question is if THQ jumped the gun with this game's release for a few extra sales or it could be that the world is in a stage that demands more and more RTSs. Let's find out together.