Designer Callum McCole (GGTheMachine) faces off on the Kralon map against one of the community's top players, Rebellions.

Designer Callum McCole (GGTheMachine) faces off on the Kralon map against one of the community's top players, Rebellions.

Designer Callum McCole (GGTheMachine) faces off on the Atwater map against one of the community's top players, Rebellions.

Designer Callum McCole (GGTheMachine) faces off on the Atwater map against one of the community's top players, Rebellions.

Managing designer Callum McCole showcases the second mission in the Genesis Campaign on the Much Harder difficulty.

Managing designer Callum McCole showcases the second mission in the Genesis Campaign on the Much Harder difficulty.

Happy new year! Here's what we're working on. ## Version 1.5 series ## Last month version 1.5 was released but that isn't the end of the 1.5 updates. In particular, these features/enhancements/bug fixes are scheduled to get added in 1.51/1.52/1.53. 1. Update UI. We're bringing the Escalation UI over to the base game. The larger fonts and general layout are easier on the eyes. 2. Replays. This is something that has been a lot harder to do...

Happy new year! Here's what we're working on. ## Version 1.5 series ## Last month version 1.5 was released but that isn't the end of the 1.5 updates. In particular, these features/enhancements/bug fixes are scheduled to get added in 1.51/1.52/1.53. 1. Update UI. We're bringing the Escalation UI over to the base game. The larger fonts and general layout are easier on the eyes. 2. Replays. This is something that has been a lot harder to do...

Greetings and happy new year! Lots of stuff going on so I'll get right to it. ## DLC MIGRATION ## People who bought the base game Ashes of the Singularity's DLC will start to see that DLC show up here and automatically be added to their account. The tentative schedule is like this: January: Part 1 - Dawn of the Singularity (eBook prequel written by David Simpson) [$4.99] - Soundtrack (by Battlestar Galactica's Richard Gibbs and Civ V's Geoff Knorr)...

Greetings and happy new year! Lots of stuff going on so I'll get right to it. ## DLC MIGRATION ## People who bought the base game Ashes of the Singularity's DLC will start to see that DLC show up here and automatically be added to their account. The tentative schedule is like this: January: Part 1 - Dawn of the Singularity (eBook prequel written by David Simpson) [$4.99] - Soundtrack (by Battlestar Galactica's Richard Gibbs and Civ V's Geoff Knorr)...

The Goal: Create the biggest, best real-time strategy game ever! ## Performance tuning ## We haven't set up a specific version number for the next set of updates. Internally we're calling it the 1.5 series. But there's development and then there's marketing. Right now, we're putting a lot of effort on performance tuning. Ashes is a big game and it's a new engine. We would really like to get the base game of Ashes of the Singularity down to working on ...

The Goal: Create the biggest, best real-time strategy game ever! ## Performance tuning ## We haven't set up a specific version number for the next set of updates. Internally we're calling it the 1.5 series. But there's development and then there's marketing. Right now, we're putting a lot of effort on performance tuning. Ashes is a big game and it's a new engine. We would really like to get the base game of Ashes of the Singularity down to working on ...

Greetings! Happy 4th of July! Stardock is closed this week for its Summer vacation but I wanted to give you guys a general status report. ## SEASON 1 ## With the Steam sale and the holiday, we have extended Season 1 to the end of July. We are in the process of contacting the top ranked players to set up a tournament for later this month which we plan to stream as many of the games as we can. ## NEXT UPDATE ## We plan to release version 1.24 of Ashes on July 14th. T...

Greetings! Happy 4th of July! Stardock is closed this week for its Summer vacation but I wanted to give you guys a general status report. ## SEASON 1 ## With the Steam sale and the holiday, we have extended Season 1 to the end of July. We are in the process of contacting the top ranked players to set up a tournament for later this month which we plan to stream as many of the games as we can. ## NEXT UPDATE ## We plan to release version 1.24 of Ashes on July 14th. T...

Greetings! I know I said I'd only do one of these a month but this month there is just too much going on! ## REINFORCEMENTS ## For those of you who aren't game developers, you might find this interesting. Over the past few years, there has been a lot of research on the number of active players in multiplayer necessary to sustain a community.  As you might imagine, we keep a very close eye on the active multiplayer base to make sure it's growing. Howev...