Archive for 2012

A Game About Space Mining – Blackspace [Kickstarter] By Adam Solo on October 4th, 2012 at 11:40 am Blackspace plays in real-time and has strategy elements, but it's not your typical RTS game. It's a lot about defending your base, but it's not a tower-defense game either. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 8 comments

Endless Space: Add-On “Rise of the Automatons” Released By Adam Solo on October 2nd, 2012 at 11:52 am Iceberg Interactive and Amplitude Studios have just released the first of the three free add-ons, or patches, planned for Endless Space till the end of 2012. Category: Game Patches, News & Announcements 35 comments

Interview with Paradox Dev Studio on Europa Universalis IV By Adam Solo on October 1st, 2012 at 9:41 am We asked the readers to help us assemble a bunch of questions that they would like to see answered by the EU4 devs about this new installment. Here's what the devs had to say. Category: Game Previews, Interviews 20 comments

Most Wanted Entertainment Hits Kickstarter for Nexus 2 By Adam Solo on September 28th, 2012 at 3:22 pm After a failed crowdfunding attempt at the now defunct Games-Plant.com, Most Wanted Entertainment is back again, now on Kickstarter, for Nexus 2: The Gods Awaken. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 24 comments

Carrier Command: Gaea Mission Out Now for PC and XBox360 By Adam Solo on September 28th, 2012 at 1:15 pm Bohemia Interactive released Carrier Command: Gaea Mission for the PC and XBox 360, today. Category: News & Announcements 11 comments

Orator Games Released Blue Libra 2 for PC, Mac and iOS By Adam Solo on September 27th, 2012 at 12:55 pm Orator Games, the developers of Blue Libra, a casual real-time space strategy game, have released a sequel that is now available digitally for Windows PC, Mac and iOS devices. Category: News & Announcements 1 comment

Tryst Demo Now Available on Steam By Adam Solo on September 27th, 2012 at 7:24 am A Tryst playable demo is now available on Steam. Tryst is a traditional "develop your base, manage resources and conquer your enemies" sci-fi RTS game. Category: News & Announcements 5 comments

Total War: Rome 2 First Gameplay Trailer By Adam Solo on September 26th, 2012 at 12:39 pm The Creative Assembly and Sega have released the first gameplay footage of their new Rome Total War game, featuring the Siege of Carthage. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 14 comments

XCOM: Enemy Unknown PC Demo Now Available on Steam By Adam Solo on September 25th, 2012 at 6:12 am An XCOM: Enemy Unknown playable PC demo is now up on Steam, two weeks before the game's official release. Category: News & Announcements 62 comments

FTL: Faster Than Light Review By Kyle Rees on September 21st, 2012 at 10:05 am Kyle reviews FTL and has this to say about it: "FTL is a simple yet engaging indie effort that makes losing exciting and suspenseful. It has high replayability where every play through is random.". Category: Game Reviews 25 comments

Logic Factory Teases Ascendancy 2 By Adam Solo on September 20th, 2012 at 10:51 am It was no secret that Logic Factory was working on a sequel to their highly popular space 4X game Ascendancy. But now LF teased the fans with a sample of Ascendancy II's music in their website. Category: News & Announcements 24 comments

2 “Pay-What-You-Want” Indie Bundles With Sci-Fi In Them By Adam Solo on September 19th, 2012 at 1:29 pm This seems to be indie bundle season. Here's two new "Pay-What-You-Want" indie bundles with some sci-fi games on them. Category: News & Announcements 7 comments

Planetary Annihilation Gets Funded With $1.3M To Spare! By Adam Solo on September 17th, 2012 at 12:52 pm Total Annihilation inspired Planetary Annihilation succeeded on Kickstarter with more than 1.3 million dollars above the pledge goal! Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 25 comments

Master of Orion Inspired Beyond Beyaan Goes Open Source By Adam Solo on September 17th, 2012 at 9:16 am Brent Patterson announced that his space 4X game Beyond Beyaan is now open source. Brent put the C# code on Google Code. The chosen license was GPL3. Category: News & Announcements 6 comments

FTL: Spaceship Simulation with Strategic Combat Released By Adam Solo on September 14th, 2012 at 2:37 pm FTL is a spaceship simulation game that features elements of exploration, discovery, spaceship management and real-time strategic combat, and it released today. Category: News & Announcements 29 comments

Tryst: Action-Strategy StarCraft-Like Indie RTS Released By Adam Solo on September 14th, 2012 at 1:19 pm Tryst, from BlueGiant Interactive was released today. It is a fast-paced real-time strategy game similar to games like StarCraft. Category: News & Announcements 4 comments

StarDrive Heading to Steam for Pre-Purchase in 2 Months By Adam Solo on September 13th, 2012 at 1:29 pm Daniel DiCicco from Zero Sum Games has announced that StarDrive is expected to be on Steam for beta pre-purchasing in a six to eight weeks period. Category: News & Announcements 23 comments