Risk: Factions is a downloadable video game for Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network and Windows computers through Steam. The game was announced on January 12 2010 for Xbox 360 December 21 2010 for PlayStation 3 and March 8 2011 for Windows. Based on Hasbro's popular board game Risk the game has both single player and online modes of play. In addition to the brand new Factions game variation Risk: Factions also features a Classic game variation derived directly from the 2008 Risk rule set. Players must complete three objectives and have control of their capital to win the game. Alternatively a player may defeat all the opponents to win the game as well. The game is played by 2 to 5 players depending on the size of the map. For example the classic World map is available for a 3 to 5 player game.