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Pandora: First Contact is Out Now By Adam Solo on November 14th, 2013 at 11:00 am Proxy Studios, Matrix Games and Slitherine have just released Pandora: First Contact, their new turn-based sci-fi 4X strategy game. Category: News & Announcements 26 comments

Checking up on Predestination: About 1 Year After Kickstarter By Adam Solo on November 12th, 2013 at 9:43 am "How's the Kickstarted turn-based space 4X game Predestination doing?", you may be asking at this point. That's been in my mind for a while now. So, I reached for Brain and Nerd for an update. Category: Interviews, Kickstart 21 comments

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion New DLC Stellar Phenomena By Adam Solo on November 8th, 2013 at 9:13 am Stardock released "Stellar Phenomena", a new DLC - which you can see as a micro expansion - for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion for $4,99. Category: News & Announcements 24 comments

Soren Johnson Forms Indie Studio and First Game is “Mars” By Adam Solo on November 6th, 2013 at 11:28 am Soren Johnson announced the creation of his own independent studio, subsidized by Stardock, called Mohawk Games, "dedicated to making innovative, core strategy games". Category: News & Announcements 8 comments

Kickstarted Battle Worlds: Kronos is Out Now By Adam Solo on November 5th, 2013 at 11:12 am You may remember Battle Worlds: Kronos, a sci-fi turn-based strategy game that made it on Kickstarter about 6 months ago? Well, it's out today. Category: News & Announcements 12 comments

Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager Early Access Available By Adam Solo on October 29th, 2013 at 2:47 pm Slitherine and Matrix Games have just released Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager, a space exploration turn-based strategy game with simulation elements under their early access program. Category: News & Announcements 7 comments

Space Engineers – Alpha First Impressions By Adam Solo on October 28th, 2013 at 11:20 am Space Engineers has reached alpha and is now available on Steam. It's still a bit far from being a complete product but the building blocks are already there, and you can have some fun wandering around in space and building ships. Category: Game First Impressions, Game Previews 19 comments

XCOM: Enemy Within – Confirmed: Enemy Is Inside the Base By Adam Solo on October 24th, 2013 at 10:18 am The security breach trailer hinted that way, and lead designer Ananda Gupta also suggested it, but now it's finally confirmed. XCOM: Enemy Within, will indeed feature XCOM base defense. Category: News & Announcements 22 comments

X Rebirth New Video – The Fighting Part By Adam Solo on October 22nd, 2013 at 9:58 am Egosoft's last trailer for X Rebirth was about trading and mining. This most recent one is about fighting. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 34 comments

The Mandate: A Sandbox Sci-Fi RPG on Kickstarter By Adam Solo on October 18th, 2013 at 9:24 am Would you like to play the role of a spaceship captain, responsible for the lives of the crew and explore the galaxy, defend your ship from boarding operations and fight ship to ship battles, possibly in co-op with 6 friends? Category: Kickstart 21 comments

Civilization 5: Brave New World – Fall Patch Released By Adam Solo on October 17th, 2013 at 6:14 am Firaxis released a big patch for Civilization 5: Brave New World. And this time they involved the Civ community in the patching process. Category: Game Patches, News & Announcements 7 comments

Galactic Civilizations 3 Announced !! By Adam Solo on October 15th, 2013 at 12:26 pm Stardock, the developer and publisher of Galactic Civilizations, Galactic Civilizations 2 and Sins of a Solar Empire celebrated 20 years in existence, and announced Galactic Civilizations 3! Category: News & Announcements 95 comments

XCOM: Enemy Within Interview – The New and the Improved By Adam Solo on October 11th, 2013 at 9:34 am XCOM: Enemy Within brings new maps, new toys and basically new tactical possibilities. But, what about the strategy layer? Was the game improved in that area? Here's what the expansion's lead designer Ananda Gupta had to say about it. Category: Game Previews, Interviews 22 comments

Legions of Steel: The Video Game – The Kickstarter By Adam Solo on October 10th, 2013 at 1:01 pm Studio Nyx is on Kickstarter looking for funds to adapt the sci-fi board game Legions of Steel to Android, iOS and PC platforms. Category: Kickstart 6 comments

XCOM: Enemy Within – A New Enemy Was Revealed Called… By Adam Solo on October 9th, 2013 at 2:01 pm A new rival faction was revealed for XCOM: Enemy Within. A human rival faction. Check then new trailer called "Security Breach". Category: News & Announcements, Videos 32 comments

XCOM: Sales, Free Weekend and Enemy Within Pre-Orders By Adam Solo on October 4th, 2013 at 9:26 am 2K Games is doing an XCOM sales event this weekend. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is free for anyone to play until Monday 7th Oct, and XCOM: Enemy Within pre-orders have started. Category: News & Announcements 4 comments

X Rebirth New Video – Trading and Mining By Adam Solo on October 2nd, 2013 at 10:56 am Boy, the Egosoft guys aren't kidding, are they! Talking about a realistic economy in space! Well, of what it could be like, at least. Here's a new video showing X Rebirth's take on the matter. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 18 comments