Stardock is pleased to announce that the Ready to Play beta is about to begin. Ready to Play is a revolutionary new program that enables gamers to create an on-line gaming profile of themselves after which Ready to Play will produce a “recommended friends” list. Then, when the player is ready to play a particular game, they can broadcast to any available friends or recommended friends that they are about to launch a particular game and join in. “If you’ve ...
PC World’s Game Blog, “ Game On ”, has a featured article about the upcoming micro-expansion Diplomacy, for the award winning PC game Sins of a Solar Empire . “Reportedly the expansion adds a new diplomatic tech tree that'll let you bolster your deal-brokering skills, adds diplomatic envoy ships (presumably to help craft treaties or facilitate dialogue during hostilities), and allows you to craft trade treaties with other factions. The bet...
IGN.com, which gave Sins of a Solar Empire the PC game of the year award in 2008, has posted their review of Sins first micro-expansion, Entrenchment. “Last year's Sins of a Solar Empire was an undeniably amazing experience; so much so, in fact, that it won our game of the year award. But that doesn't mean that the teams at Ironclad or Stardock are resting on their laurels. They've recently released the first micro-expansion for the game, Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrench...
IGN.com has an exclusive trailer of the upcoming expansion, Entrechment, for Sins of a Solar Empire. Check it out!
With the release coming up very soon, Steve Butts over at IGN put in some time with the Sins of a Solar Empire expansion, Entrenchment, and gives a great in-depth preview. “Next month Stardock and Ironclad will be releasing the first ever micro-expansion for our 2008 Game of the Year, Sins of a Solar Empire. Titled Entrenchment, the new addition to the Sins franchise brings a host of defense-oriented improvements that should help players beat back the dreaded pirate surge and also put...
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Science has released the nominees for the annual Interactive Achievement Awards. Sins of a Solar has been nominated for the Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year! "The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences® (AIAS) today announced the nominees for the 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards®. The nominations for the peer-based awards have been dominated by blockbuster game, LittleBigPlanet (Sony Computer Entertainment America) with...
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 eve...
There is no doubt that Sins of a Solar Empire had a spectular 2008, and I'm quite confident that will also be the case in 2009 as well. Over the last couple weeks we have posted about all the different awards that Sins has been honored to receive, along with notable mentions from various websites and even TV programs. I have compiled a list of some of hte most notable awards and mentions that Sins of a Solar Empire received last year, and I wanted to share that with everyone here. L...
Neoseeker.com is running a contest where they are giving away five prize packs that consist of: 1 Collector's Edition of Sins of a Solar Empire, signed by the developers. 1 Ironclad t-shirt - winners get to specify the size. 1 free download key for Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment (when it's released) This contest will run until January 12th, so you still have plenty of time to enter. Head over to Neoseeker.com for more information and contest rules.
The fine folks over at Gamers with Jobs has given Sins of a Solar Empire the award for Best PC Exclusive Game of the Year! Not only that, Sins was also a runner up in the Game of the Year award. Link: 2008 GWJ Community Game of the Year Awards “As a rule, we at Gamerswithjobs avoid putting together any kind of intenal Game of the Year awards, primarily because the debate over the value and standards of such a thing would result in bloodshed, assault charges an...
The beta for Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrechment started yesterday, and now that many should have it downloaded and ready to play, we wanted to put up some 'Tips and Tricks' to get the most out of the experience. Now please note that Entrenchment is still in beta, and you might still run into some issues. This article will give you a good overview on what some of the features are in Entrenchment, and what some of them hold for future updates. Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment is availab...
Stardock announced a huge free update for Sins of a Solar Empire today, the award-winning title from developer Ironclad Games. Additionally, fans that pre-order the expansion will be included in the upcoming beta for “Entrenchment”. Fans can pre-order the expansion at www.impulsedriven.com . Highlights from the 1.1 change log include: Alloy Networking Technology – allows for seamless multiplayer without needing to deal with port forwarding or other router settings ...
Recently RTSGuru.com gave users the chance to ask questions that would be answered by the team behind Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. The interview is now complete and RTSGuru has it posted! Read the full interview at RTSGuru.com !
We have a very popular Facebook page for our Sins fans, and we often share new information including images and videos of Rebellion, and info on what’s upcoming. If you are on Facebook take a moment to like our page and join us in the fun! https://www.facebook.com/sinsofasolarempire
As you probably noticed, there are some big changes to the Sins of a Solar Empire website! We have updated the layout and design in part due to the upcoming Sins: Rebellion. The site also streams our feeds from Facebook and Twitter , so you can easily follow what we are saying and doing on those services. We hope you enjoy the new look, and be sure to keep checking for new media content for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion! https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/