I was watching the Sony E3 press conference last night where they unveiled the latest portable gaming system – the Playstation Vita .  The graphics looked pretty good in the demos, and saving to the cloud and resuming on the PS3 was also a nice touch.  I’m not a big portable gamer, but I’d definitely like to try this one out.

IGN has announced their winners for the best PC games of 2008 and Sins of a Solar Empire has earned the top honor as the Best Game of 2008! View the award here:  http://bestof.ign.com/2008/pc/22.html IGN also gave Sins the top honor in the following categories: Best Strategy Game Best New IP Most Innovative Design Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor also won Best Expansion! http://bestof.ign.com/2008/pc/19.html A huge thanks to all of our f...

Voodoo Extreme VE3D has Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor, up for Strategy game of the year.  They have a poll asking which was your favorite strategy game of 2008.  Head over and give your thoughts. http://ve3d.ign.com/poll/236/Strategy-Game-of-the-Year

The Today Show on NBC had a feature today of the top 15 “tech toys” for the holiday season , and Sins of a Solar Empire was a pick! ”More “serious” gamers looking for a bit of intergalactic gaming should look at Sins of a Solar Empire (Stardock $29.99). This game is like playing chess on the scale of “Star Wars” or “Star Trek.” Huge armadas of spaceships vie for control over vast galactic distances.”

With the end of the year rapidly approaching, we are seeing more and more “best of 2008” lists comes out, and today we have Wired.com’s top 5 PC Games of 2008. Sins of a Solar Empire makes into the list at #3. “Expand, explore, exploit, exterminate. Become the master of the universe in this elaborate interstellar strategy game . "Epic" doesn't even fully encapsulate the scope of Sins of a Solar Empire. The depth of the gameplay and the customization options are am...

X-Play has announced the nominees of it’s “Best of 2008” awards which will appear on G4TV on December 9th.  Both Sins of a Solar Empire , and Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor were nominated for Best Strategy Game! “X-Play is proud to present its Best of 2008 Awards on Tuesday, December 9th, at 8PM ET. This sixth annual awards program will highlight the best in gaming throughout the year. ' "It seems commonplace to expect and find every year to im...

The next Independent Games Summit will be held in March 2009, and they released the list of speakers which include Stardock’s Brad Wardell. “In addition, Stardock's Brad Wardell, the founder of an independent game developer and publisher involved in such titles as Galactic Civilizations II, Sins of a Solar Empire, Demigod and Elemental, is presenting a lecture named 'Stardock On The PC Hardcore Scene As Indie', described as follows: "Through its choice of game projects c...

With the holidays approaching, I wanted to list my top 5 “most wanted” games for Christmas.  I also wanted to hear what yours are as well. Left4Dead (PC) Red Alert 3 (PC) Call of Duty: World at War (360) Shaun White Snowboarding (360) Gears of War 2 (360) So what’s your top 5?

This is looking awesome.  Thanks to Zoomba for the heads up. http://www.shackvideo.com/?id=13363  

It's one of those months again that there are tons of games being released, and so little time and money for them all.  It has almost become a new type of balancing act, trying to figure out which games to get and plan a month or two ahead of time. We also can't forget the holiday season is rapidly approaching, and from now until then there are a lot of releases coming down the pipes.  How to choose between all these? This past weekend I picked up Guitar Hero: World Tour.  I...

Just picked up Guitar Hero: World Tour a few hours ago, and have been trying to get drumming down.  The family has been playing and it’s fun.  This version has a ton of great songs.

This was one of those weekends where I wanted to play a bunch of games, but the wife....I mean I just didn't have enough time to get all my gaming done.  I did get some time in with The Political Machine 2008, I'm trying to cram as much play in before the elections as I can. I was in the mood for some FPS action, but really had a hard time deciding on what I wanted to play.  I've actually been interested in getting back into America's Army. So what did you play this weekend?

It’s been a while since I last asked this, so I thought it was a good time to see what games people are either still playing, or if they have moved onto something new. On the PC, I squeezed in a few hours with the Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment beta.  I really had to limit myself, because I could have easily spent the whole weekend playing this, which is a good thing, but Saturday was Valentine’s Day and that could have led to future problems playing games. On Friday, I hopp...

The NPD group has published the top 20 best selling games of 2008, and Sins of a Solar Empire is on that list at number 14!  It should be noted also that this list does not count downloadable copies, which Sins also did an incredible amount of. “Mention must also be made of Sins of a Solar Empire , the best selling strategy game in 2008 in retail stores and number 14 on 2008's list. Considering that the title reportedly sold well in downloadable copies in addition to its ret...