Hello everyone! This week is the Thanksgiving holiday for many of us, and due to that we are having an adjusted holiday schedule for our regular Twitch streams. Holiday week schedule: Wednesday - Ashes: Escalation stream Thursday - No stream Friday - No stream All streams should return to the normal scheduling next week.  Please be sure to follow our Twitch channel for updates:  https://www.twitch.tv/stardock  

RPS has a list of the 50 best strategy games on the PC and has Offworld Trading Company and Galactic Civilizations II on the list! https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/11/18/the-50-best-strategy-games-on-pc/12/

Kotaku has an article up with a list of some games that would make great holiday gifts, but might not be on your list. We're excited to see Offworld Trading Company included! Read more here... http://kotaku.com/video-games-most-people-wont-ask-for-this-holiday-seaso-1788673820  

As the end of the election is upon us, I thought it would be fun to take a look and see how the current statistics of player data were going in The Political Machine 2016 . We have ‘Exit Polls,’ which consist of data that we collect from the game on things such as what candidates people are playing as, what party is winning in games, what issues are deciding the wins, and more. You can see all the data here . So lets take a look and see where we’re at with this dat...

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PC Gamer has an article up about 4x games and takes a look at the "major players" in the genre. Great to see  Sins of a Solar Empire : Rebellion,  Elemental : Fallen Enchantress, and  Galactic Civilizations  III on that list! http://www.pcgamer.com/best-4x-games/  

We are going to have a lot more Twitch streams for Stardock games coming up. We are looking at having a stream each day for various games hosted by Stardock and from members of our community. I wanted to post our weekly schedule here, and make sure to check back for updates or additions. You can also follow our Twitch channel to be notified when a stream is live. https://www.twitch.tv/stardock Monday 2pm ET Offworld Trading Company  Tuesday 2pm...

Check out Stardock's CEO, Brad Wardell, on the latest eXplorminate podcast! "Join Nate and Troy as they speak with Brad Wardell, the man behind Stardock, about all things Galactic Civilizations 3, Sorcerer King, Ashes of the Singularity, Offworld Trading Company, Star Control and much much more!" Listen to the podcast here.... https://explorminate.net/2016/09/19/strategic-expanse-27-the-3rd-brad-wardell-interview/

Stardock will be doing Let's Plays on its latest games starting at 2pm with Brad Wardell (designer of Galactic Civilizations and Ashes of the Singularity) playing Sorcerer King: Rivals and Ashes of the Singularity in the afternoon. Subscribe to: https://www.twitch.tv/stardock 2pm: Sorcerer King: Rivals 4pm: Ashes of the Singularity Multiplayer Feel free to hop in and ask any questions. Brad is the CEO of Stardock.

Gameranx has a list of the Best Strategy Games of 2016 - so far, and they have included both Ashes of the Singularity and Offworld Trading Company! Check out the full list here.... http://gameranx.com/features/id/64694/article/the-best-strategy-games-of-2016-so-far/  

 It's that time of the year again...the Steam Summer Sale has begun Stardock's games and DLC are up to 75% off*, snag these deals while you can.   Offworld Trading Company $39.99 Now $19.99 Ashes of the Singularity $39.99 Now $19.99 Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion $39.99 Now $9.99 Galactic Civilizations III $39.99 Now $13.59   Additional titles on sale: ...

Great list that includes Ashes of the Singularity, Galactic Civilizations III, and Sorcerer King! http://gameranx.com/features/id/1037/article/top-30-best-strategy-games-for-pc/  

Stardock's CEO Brad Wardell talks about the past, present and future of the RTS genre on IGN. "New technology drives innovation in game design. So far, PC gamers have gone through roughly 3 major generations of game technology: DOS games Windows games with sprites Windows 32-bit games 3D graphics Over the past year, we’ve begun to transition to a 4th generation: 64-bit Multi-Core Multi-GPU What games will do with 4th generation game engines remain...

Since the last edition of The Political Machine 2016 weekly stats, we’ve had a lot of developments in the primaries. It will be interesting to see the effects it has had on the game. The big primary in South Carolina for the democrats happened recently and Hillary Clinton easily took that state. Super Tuesday saw wins for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Ted Cruz. Subsequent primaries had Bernie Sanders picking up Michigan from Hillary, and various other states going t...

AnandTech sat down with Microsoft's DirectX 12 lead, Direct3D principle lead, and co-founder of Oxide Games, Dan Baker to discuss the state of DirectX 12. "Taking place next week is the  2016 Game Developers Conference  in San Francisco. GDC has been an important show for some time, but in recent years it has taken on an even bigger role as what happens and what is announced at GDC have greater implications for not just developers, but end-users as well. GDC has been the backd...