Maximum PC Names Sins in Top Games of 2008

Published on January 23, 2009 By Island Dog In PC Gaming

We are well into 2009, but the PC game awards for 2008 have not stopped yet, but we aren’t complaining! The latest news comes from Maximum PC which has published their top PC game awards for 2008, and Sins of a Solar Empire made the list.

“Sure, it’s a 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) space-exploration RTS and plays a lot like a real-time version of the board game Risk, but it’s one of the most fun and engrossing multiplayer RTSes we’ve ever played. The real risk (in space) that developer Stardock Entertainment took was releasing its precious baby with absolutely no DRM. Did it get pirated? Sure. But it also sold more than 500,000 copies. Not shabby for a game with a budget of less than a million bucks.”

Check out the full awards at Maximum PC.

Comments

Spartan

on Jan 23, 2009

Damn Dog! You are killing me on these news posts today. That is what I get for trying to sleep a little at night...

Island Dog

on Jan 23, 2009

mentor07825

on Jan 24, 2009

Sucks that such a wonderful game got pirated. Their loss though. It's very hard to find these patches. The pirates are killing the game industry, some say that their excuse is because of the DRM in these games, but they have no excuse when it comes to Stardock products. Jeeze, I remember a Developer commenting that they will never make anymore PC games, that the games they release from now on will only go on to consoles, because their latest PC game got pirated more times then it did get sold. It's also worrying that I want to go into the games industry and have these things happen, I don't want the games that I work long and hard for get pirated. The whole point of going through crunch time is to get your baby finished and out of the door to the public and be proud of it, and to be a rewarded for the hard work and sacrifice that went into it. I've never pirated a game, and I won't yet. Well done though for Sins, it's a classic game the I love playing!

CobraA1

on Jan 24, 2009

I love their description of Spore: "Best Evolution Simulation Game That Actually Promotes Intelligent Design"

Spartan

on Jan 24, 2009

And yet, sadly, it does not - at all...

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