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April 12, 2016 by Island Dog
Arumba  plays the PHC in his latest Let's Play of Ashes of the Singularity. Check it out!
April 8, 2016 by Island Dog
V1.01 for Ashes of the Singularity is here! We have been listening to your feedback over the last week and we want to thank you for all of your extremely valuable input. In order to address some of your balance concerns, we’ve looked at the following: Balance of units, buildings, and economy Difficulty balance for the AI levels Difficulty balance for the Campaign In addition to looking at overall balance, we’ve also removed the “Fringe” map fr...
April 7, 2016 by Island Dog
Originally posted by Soren Johnson on the Mohawk Games blog. Offworld Trading Company  has been in Early Access for over a year, and in that time we have launched 10 major beta updates based on feedback from you. The game has improved in innumerable ways from our first version because of the dedication and involvement of our community. Today, we announce the release date of the game as April 28th, 2016, and we are excited to bring this game to a wider audience. We don’t v...
April 7, 2016 by Island Dog
The blog on CyberPowerPC has a review of Ashes of the Singularity up, and gives it an overall of 82%! "In all, I found Ashes of the Singularity to be a definite turn in the right direction for the RTS genre. It is much more of a methodical, thinking man’s game, which rewards patience and planning over button mashing and rushing. " Read the entire review here.... http://blog.cyberpowerpc.com/2016/04/02/ashes-of-the-singularity-review-a-big-step-in-the-right...
April 7, 2016 by Island Dog
The v1.01 update for Ashes of the Singularity is now available. Check out the latest updates: Note: Existing mission 4 and mission 8 saves may exhibit strange behavior (objective list not showing up).  Starting from the mission start will resolve this. HIGHLIGHTS : General unit, building, and economy balance Removed “Fringe” map from Ranked match playlist Visual polish & bug fixes on forests AI difficulty balance Campaign difficulty tweaks ...
April 7, 2016 by Island Dog
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story http://www.starwars.com/films/rogue-one First teaser trailer released:
April 6, 2016 by Island Dog
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...
April 6, 2016 by Island Dog
Angry Joe plays Ashes of the Singularity and gives his impressions of the game.
April 4, 2016 by Island Dog
Writing Bull is hosting a German multiplayer tournament for Ashes of the Singularity.  "Together with publisher Stardock our Community Forum will organize the first German multiplayer tournament Ashes of the Singularity. Stardock has us it provided a total of US $ 400 in prize money available, which we will distribute among the top finishers. Participation is open to all members of our Community Forums, which have the Steam version of the game. The tournament begins on 1...
April 3, 2016 by Island Dog
Check out the Ashes of the Singularity stream with Maddjinn and Stardock's Derek Paxton. Right now on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/maddjinn
April 2, 2016 by Island Dog
HardOCP ran a series of benchmarks with Ashes of the Singularity and posted their performance report. "The new Ashes of the Singularity game has finally been released on the PC. This game supports DX11 and the new DX12 API with advanced features. In this Day 1 Benchmark Preview we will run a few cards through the in-game canned benchmark comparing DX11 versus DX12 performance and NVIDIA versus AMD performance." Read more here... http://hardocp.com/article/2016/04/01/ashes_singu...
April 2, 2016 by Island Dog
UnitLost is steaming Ashes of the Singularity from 1-3pm ET today, and he'll be having a giveaway of several keys for Ashes. https://www.twitch.tv/unitlost
April 2, 2016 by Island Dog
SaucyNetwork is streaming Ashes of the Singularity and giving away several keys, so be sure to stop by and check out his stream. https://www.twitch.tv/saucynetwork  
April 1, 2016 by Island Dog
Yesterday, we were excited to launch our biggest title of the year. Today, we are still excited, but for more reasons than just the release! Why are we so happy? You. Our fans are what make our success possible and the response to Ashes has been overwhelming. When you take the time to give us feedback, hop online during our “Fans vs Devs” event to play with us, or leave a review, it helps us continue to make games that you enjoy. To say thank you, we’ve develope...
April 1, 2016 by Island Dog
Hi all! Multiplayer Season 0 has drawn to a close and the slates are wiped clean! With a fresh start, it's anyone's game. Season 1 will run from April 1st all the way through June 30th , when we will pull some of the top players and invite them to participate in a tournament. We're all really exited to see our multiplayer community grow and challenge each other! Let's take a look at our current top 10 Ashes players – can they hold on to their spots? Or will Y...