Stardock announced today that the award-winning 4X turn-based strategy title Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition has made its way to Steam. Stardock announced that after years of exclusivity to the Impulse digital distribution platform (now owned by GameStop) its titles would be making their way to a broader PC gaming audience. Fans can now purchase Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition (priced at $19.95) for 25 percent off through December 9 at http://store.steampowe...
If you don’t have Galactic Civilizations II then starting today is a great time to pick it up! GalCiv II – Ultimate Edition is on sale this weekend for 33% off. You get Gal Civ II: Dread Lords, Dark Avatar, and Twilight of the Arnor for just $28. GalCiv II – Ultimate Edition
Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad Games have unleashed a massive changelog for the upcoming Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity version 1.2 and the update is now available. Trinity bundles the original award-winning real-time strategy PC title from Ironclad Games with the two game-changing micro-expansions, Entrenchment and Diplomacy . Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity is available via the digital download platform, Impulse for $39.95. The updates consist of a new and improved Pirate...
Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor has taken the Best Expansion award in IGN’s 2008 Best of 2008 awards in the PC category! View the award here: http://bestof.ign.com/2008/pc/19.html Thanks to all our supporters for another great year!
Everyone likes a sale, right? Well from December 11th to December 14th we have a HUGE sale going on in the Impulse Store ! Project Aftermath - $9.99 Galactic Civilizations I: Ultimate - $3.99 Political Machine 2008 - $3.99 Space Rangers 2 Complete - $3.99 Supreme Commander - $9.99 Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords - $9.99 MyColors: Winter Wonderland - $9.99 World of Goo - $19.95 It’s a chance to pickup some great games and software at ...
Stardock has released a major free update to its award-winning PC strategy game, Galactic Civilizations II. The update adds a host of new features to its latest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor as well as expands on features found in the Dark Avatar expansion pack. Galactic Civilizations II was originally released in 2006 and won numerous PC game awards including “Turn-based Strategy Game of the Year from GameSpy”. In 2007 the first expansion pack, Dark Avatar ...
Recently I posted the first part of the interview with Stardock CEO Brad Wardell by ShackNews. Part 2 of the interview goes into Stardock’s appearance at PAX ‘08, the upcoming game Demigod , and the upcoming turn-based fantasy strategy game that Stardock is currently working on. Another quick excerpt: “ Shack : How was your time at PAX? Brad Wardell : It was great. That was so fun. Because we were out there and we had the Gas Powered Games guys [Supreme...
ShackNews has a two-part interview with Stardock CEO, Brad Wardell. The first part talks about the plan to “revitalize” PC gaming. It also covers Stardock's stance on copy-protection. A quick excerpt: " Shack: A lot of people think the solution is making games that are so connected with the online experience that everything is validated online, patched online, controlled through the internet. But what you're talking about is an offline, almost traditional solution...
Stardock is excited to announce that “phase two” of its digital download platform, Impulse, has begun and all updates, new games and software applications will soon be live. Phase two of Impulse sees new games from 2k ( Civilizations III, Shattered Union, Sid Meier’s Pirates! and Sid Meier’s Railroads! ) and Tilted Mill’s Children of the Nile enhanced edition. New software applications include a host of Corel applications like WordPerfect Office X4, Cor...
The latest review of Gal Civ II: Twilight of the Arnor comes from GameZone.com. Anise Hollingshead gives ToA a great review and really focuses on some of the new improvements, specifically the tech tree. "Playercustomization is always a large part of Galactic Civilization, and now there areeven more ways for players to tweak the gameplay. New editors allow forcustomization of the technical trees, scenarios, improvements and more, for atotal of six editors. Players can access...
The crew here at Stardock cares a lot about our community and the games that we produce for you. That's why we're pleased to announce that version 2.20 for Galactic Civilizations II is available for you today! Even when a title is "finished" and put out to market, there are always little things we find that could use a tweak or a change here and there. We also know what it's like to enjoy an old game so much that you keep going back to it, even when there are ...
We have completed our annual customer report for last year. Each year we send out a survey to our customer base asking them a host of questions so that we can better serve them. In exchange, we share the results of these surveys along with a report on what went right and wrong the previous year along with plans for the forthcoming year. We are pleased to present you the full report here: https://www.stardock.com/press/CustomerReports/Stardock2011.pdf
Galactic Civilizations II Ultimate is now available for purchase on GameFly, also recently known as Direct2Drive. http://www.gamefly.com/Download-Galactic-Civilizations-II-Ultimate-Edition/5003432/
Galactic Civilizations II has made PC Gamer’s Top 100 PC Games of all time! Coming in at #74, PC Gamer has this to say: “Managing two hundred billion people is complicated, and GalCiv isn’t as simply presented as its Earthly inspiration, Civilization. But the excitement of setting out to explore a procedurally generated galaxy of mind-boggling size does so much more for us than an ordinary world map. The scarcity of fertile planets out there makes your brus...
Stardock Entertainment continues to bolster its development staff as renowned fantasy and science fiction writer/editor Dave Stern joins Stardock to oversee creative storytelling and lore implementation in all future projects, including the recently launched Elemental: War of Magic . Stern, author of numerous books including the novelizations of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and The Blair Witch Project and former editor of Pocket Books Star Trek and science fiction...