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February 20, 2009 by Island Dog
Gamasutra.com posted the weekly sales charts for various gaming systems, and Galactic Civilizations II: Game of the Year Edition tops the U.S. sales chart!  PC North America: 1. Galactic Civilizations II: Game of the Year Edition (Stardock),
February 19, 2009 by Island Dog
IGN.com has an exclusive trailer of the upcoming expansion, Entrechment, for Sins of a Solar Empire. Check it out!
February 17, 2009 by Island Dog
The much-anticipated PC version of the hit Braid, is now available for preorder on Impulse!  “Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where the player manipulates the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles. The time behaviors inc...
February 9, 2009 by Island Dog
Stardock Corporation announced today that the first micro-expansion to Ironclad’s Strategy Game of the Year, Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment , is undergoing further incorporation of beta feedback to maximize quality and will now be available February 25 for download on Stardock’s digital download platform, Impulse ( www.impulsedriven.com ). “One of Stardock’s key strategies for success with past games has been the incorporation of player feedback from our ope...
February 4, 2009 by Island Dog
Stardock announced today that it is expanding its current games division and will open a second games studio in Michigan. The new studio will create up to 50 much-needed jobs in the state of Michigan and will be responsible for an as-of-yet unannounced RPG title developed and published by independent developer Stardock Entertainment. When evaluating where to open the second studio, Stardock considered several other states in which to open it due to the relatively high costs of recrui...
January 27, 2009 by Island Dog
Wired.com has the latest info on Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment.  Along with that, they also have some new screenshots I’m sure you will enjoy! Link: Wired.com
January 27, 2009 by Island Dog
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 week 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 a stop to aggr...
January 23, 2009 by Island Dog
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 ever played. The real risk (in sp...
January 23, 2009 by Island Dog
Gamasutra is one of my favorite gaming sites, and their opinion pieces are definitely worth a read.  I just got this one in my inbox and I wanted to share it with everyone. “Amidst the neverending talk about how the PC is changing or declining as a market for hardcore games, outside of perennial chart-crusher World of Warcraft, commentators seem to lose sight of the historic strengths of the platform and its place in the gaming world. Meanwhile, studios like Valv...
January 16, 2009 by Island Dog
Rockpapershotgun.com has an interview with Brad Wardell about Stardock’s upcoming title, Elemental: War of Magic.  The interview covers a few things, including a chat about user-generated content and more! “Brad Wardell: The in-game tools of Elemental are designed to let players create their own items, their own worlds, their own graphical elements to the world, their own creatures, their own races and pretty much anything else they might want to expand the game. They’re the same ...
January 2, 2009 by Island Dog
  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 c...
January 2, 2009 by Island Dog
To say that Sins of a Solar Empire had a great would be putting it mild, we had a FANTASTIC year!  The end of the year means gaming and tech sites/magazines publish their “best of” lists along with features like user picks, special spotlights, and all that good stuff. Over the last couple of weeks we have seen Sins of a Solar Empire just sweep through nominations and awards, and IronClad Games and Stardock just couldn’t be more pleased.  I thought today we would...
December 31, 2008 by Island Dog
The Best of 2008 lists keep rolling in, and Sins of a Solar Empire makes it into the Top 5 PC Games list from Gamasutra. “One of the year's great success stories was this space strategy title from Vancouver-based Ironclad Games, which put the small developer on the map and scored another hit for its increasingly influential publisher Stardock. Ostensibly a member of the "4X" genre of domination-oriented titles, Sins of a Solar Empire, with its explicit focus on battles and it...
December 29, 2008 by Island Dog
Softpedia.com has named Sins of a Solar Empire RTS of the year!  “In a way, it’s unfair to compare Sins of a Solar Empire, from Ironclad Games and Stardock, with the biggest real time strategy title released this year, Red Alert 3, from Electronic Arts and its Los Angeles Studios. They are very different games, with far apart settings, and target audiences that rarely mix. But Sins of a Solar Empire has something that the third installment of the Red Alert spin off from the Tiber...
July 9, 2009 by Island Dog
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