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Horizon Giveaway Contest – 5 Steam Keys! [RESULTS] By Adam Solo on September 30th, 2013 at 1:45 pm And the winners of the Horizon Beta giveaway contest are...                           Category: Contests 23 comments

Planetary Annihilation Beta Begins By Adam Solo on September 30th, 2013 at 9:51 am Planetary Annihilation, the Total Annihilation inspired by sci-fi RTS from Uber Entertainment, that made it big on Kickstarter about a year ago, has entered the beta stage. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 8 comments

Star Citizen Passes $20M and All Rendered In-Engine Trailer By Adam Solo on September 27th, 2013 at 8:59 am Chris Roberts has passed the 20 million dollar mark in crowd-funding for Star Citizen, his upcoming space trading and combat simulator game for the PC. And, there's a new full in-game engine trailer. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 19 comments

Horizon Enters Beta and Giveaway Contest – 5 Steam Keys! [CLOSED] By Adam Solo on September 23rd, 2013 at 11:07 am Horizon enters in the beta milestone. To celebrate the event the publisher have sent us 5 Steam keys to giveaway to our loyal readers. Category: Contests, News & Announcements 165 comments

Predestination: Beta First Stage Begins – Fleet Combat By Adam Solo on September 20th, 2013 at 10:18 am Predestination lead developer Brendan Drain sends word that the first of four planned beta stages, focused on fleet combat, is now under way and available to kickstarter backers who signed for the beta. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 11 comments

Elite: Dangerous Video – Only If The Game Was Like This… By Adam Solo on September 18th, 2013 at 10:12 am Frontier Developments has released a video on Elite: Dangerous featuring capital ships and star fighter action. The video was used as part of the composer selection process for the game. Category: Kickstart, Videos 22 comments

Timothy Zahn’s Parallax – A Community Driven 4X Kickstarter By Adam Solo on September 17th, 2013 at 10:55 am Abram Jablonski, the owner/founder of Prototype X Software and sci-fi writer Timothy Zahn are on Kickstarter for a retro-style turn-based space 4X game. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 18 comments

What Are You Playing Now, And Most Looking Forward To? By Adam Solo on September 13th, 2013 at 11:16 am What are you playing at the moment? And, what games are you most looking forward to in the near future? Category: Reader Inquiry 74 comments

Space Engineers Announced By Adam Solo on September 10th, 2013 at 12:37 pm Keen Software House, the developers behind the space shooter Miner Wars 2081, have just announced their second title, Space Engineers. They've reached alpha and plan to release on Steam Early Access soon. Category: News & Announcements 20 comments

Starpoint Gemini 2 – Alpha Available on Steam By Adam Solo on September 9th, 2013 at 1:28 pm Starpoint Gemini 2, a space simulation game with RPG elements has reached Alpha and is now available on Steam's Early Access. Category: News & Announcements 23 comments

Sid Meier’s Civilization 5: Brave New World Review By Adam Solo on September 6th, 2013 at 5:57 pm Roughly one year after Civ5:G&K's release, comes Brave New World, the second expansion pack to Civilization 5 with the promise to improve the "late-game" experience, where usually all past Civ games fell short Category: Game Reviews 29 comments

Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes New DLC – Loot Pack By Adam Solo on September 5th, 2013 at 9:45 am Stardock released a new DLC for Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes. It's called Loot Pack, and comes with new weapons, armor, rings and consumables. Category: News & Announcements 11 comments

Hardware: Shipbreakers Is Now Homeworld: Shipbreakers By Adam Solo on September 3rd, 2013 at 10:44 am Hardware: Shipbreakers becomes Homeworld: Shipbreakers and is now an official Homeworld game. The deal was signed by Blackbird Interactive and Gearbox Software at the PAX event. Category: News & Announcements 18 comments

XCOM: Enemy Within Trailer – War Machines and Seeker Unit By Adam Solo on September 2nd, 2013 at 10:42 am No big reveals at PAX Prime for Enemy Within, but a new alien stealth unit has been announced. And, there's a new trailer. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 27 comments

Ground Pounders: Hex TBS in the Sword of the Stars Universe By Adam Solo on August 30th, 2013 at 12:19 pm The creators of the space 4X games Sword of the Stars I and II are now on Kickstarter for Ground Pounders, a hex-based sci-fi strategy game set in the Sword of the Stars' universe. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 39 comments

Worlds of Magic Alpha Gameplay Teaser By Adam Solo on August 28th, 2013 at 1:06 pm Four months after succeeding on Kickstarter, Wastelands Interactive released a new video showing off some footage on Worlds of Magic's gameplay. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 10 comments

Distant Worlds Interview Part 2: Further Work and Sequel By Adam Solo on August 22nd, 2013 at 10:20 am In this second and last part of our talk with Erik Rutins on Distant Worlds, Matrix Games' Director of Product Development talks about the real-time space 4X strategy game's future. Category: Interviews 28 comments