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November 1, 2013 by Island Dog
Stardock is retiring the early-adopter upgrade discounts for Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes and Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. Any owners of previous games in the Elemental or Sins of a Solar Empire franchises who want to take advantage of discounts they are currently eligible for will need to make those purchases by Friday, November 15. Thank you all for your support over the years. We’re on the cusp of an exciting new era for Stardock, with the announcements of Galactic Ci...
July 17, 2013 by Island Dog
Some of you have noticed that Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion has added Steam Trading card support.  If you aren’t familiar with the trading cards you can get an overview here. http://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards/ Basically, you get these cool cards when playing games on Steam.  You can then trade them, or craft them into badges. which give you XP on Steam where you can earn even more stuff. Lets give a big kudos to Leo who is an incredible artist at Stardock wh...
June 5, 2013 by Island Dog
The Forbidden Worlds DLC Pack is Now Available for just $4.99 The war between the loyalists and the rebels within the TEC, Advent and Vasari continues within the depths of Trader Space.  Yet, this sector of the galaxy has far more worlds and history than any of the factions are aware. The need to survive forces each to expand into the unknown, discovering worlds of hazard, wealth, risk, and mystery. Most ominously, the Trader factions have been loathe to expand to these worlds due t...
May 9, 2013 by Island Dog
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion 1.5 beta is available for download now! The update features improved planet visuals; major game balance updates and more! View the full changelog to v1.5 beta now: http://tinyurl.com/forums-sins15beta-changelog While many were hopeful that diplomacy would finally end the war, differing opinions on what should be done, along with the depleted power of the controlling factions, has led to a splintering of the groups involved. Take the battle for ga...
April 8, 2013 by Island Dog
Cool mention of Sins of a Solar Empire from NASA's Jeff Norris. "Norris praised particularly 2008′s Sins of a Solar Empire; “I’m struck by the complexity of the interface, that you can walk up to, start using, and be ready in a couple of minutes.” http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/04/06/nasa-describe-how-holodecks-and-spider-robots-will-make-us-all-space-invaders/  
January 11, 2013 by Island Dog
The soundtrack for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is now available on Steam.  55 high-fidelity tracks that gives you over 2 hours of musical enjoyment! Soundtrack -  http://store.steampowered.com/app/228600/ Bundle w/ game -  http://store.steampowered.com/sub/18821/  
January 1, 2013 by Island Dog
Just wanted to take a moment and thank everyone for their support in 2012. We look forward to another great year and hope you'll join us!  
December 17, 2012 by Island Dog
Sins: Rebellion was nominated for readers voting for the best strategy game for 2012.  The voting is open so be sure to head over and show some love for Sins. http://www.incgamers.com/2012/12/best-strategy-2012-readers-vote/  
December 11, 2012 by Island Dog
PC Gamer has put out their nominees for their Game of the Year and Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion has been nominated! http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/12/11/pc-gamers-game-of-the-year-nominees/  
December 8, 2012 by Island Dog
Sins: Rebellion is also in several voting categories in Game Informers Readers Game of the Year!  Head over and show your love for Rebellion! http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/12/04/vote-on-your-games-of-the-year-for-2012.aspx
December 7, 2012 by Island Dog
Show you’re love for Sins and vote for Sins: Rebellion today! Vote here: http://www.gamespot.com/best-of-2012/peoples-choice/index.html
October 15, 2012 by Island Dog
GameSpy has published their 2012 Holiday Gift Guide, and for PC games, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is listed among many great PC games.  I think Sins: Rebellion makes a great gift too! “Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is an outstanding and unique real-time strategy game that offers a welcome, slower alternative to StarCraft 2's intense pacing." - Our Review http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/122/1226080p2.html
October 9, 2012 by Island Dog
Gamasutra has a postmortem article up on Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.  This was written by Stardock’s Chris Bray and Blair Fraser from Ironclad.  “Even after two expansions, the teams felt the definitive version of the game had not yet been realized. With Ironclad Games working on the forthcoming Sins of a Dark Age, Stardock took a greater role in the development of the stand-alone expansion Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion to do just that. Sins: Rebellion wa...
August 28, 2012 by Island Dog
IGN.com has put together a list of their top 25 PC games from the past few years, and our own Sins of a Solar Empire has made the list at number 21! “Ironclad’s epic space strategy game isn’t such a success solely because of its marvelous visuals or brilliant gameplay – it’s a triumph of interface design. All conquered planets, constructed armies and in-progress actions are displayed with an ingeniously configured set of icons that at-a-glance communicate a matrix of information so the...
July 30, 2012 by Island Dog
Stardock’s Chris Bray made an appearance on the Just Press Start podcast where he talks about the recently released Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. “Listen as Chris explains the ins and outs of the new features, discusses adding lore and story to a game where there is no such thing as a “campaign,” and more in this interesting behind the scenes look into the creation of this epic space-based 4X title! This is shaping up to be the definitive Sins experience- and I’ll be posting my fu...