Archive for the ‘News & Announcements’ Category

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

Star Legacy Went Vaporware By Adam Solo on September 12th, 2012 at 1:29 pm Couple of years ago Shrapnel Games announced they were developing a new space 4X game called Star Legacy. Now, the developers report that the project is "pretty much put into indefinite hold...". Category: News & Announcements 16 comments

Wing Commander Creator Chris Roberts Making New Game By Adam Solo on September 11th, 2012 at 12:20 pm The creator of space games like Wing Commander, Privateer or Freelancer is back to game development after a long period of absence. He's new space game to be revealed in Oct 10, 2012. Category: News & Announcements 10 comments

Hey, Nice Sci-Fi Titles on the IndieFort Championship Bundle By Adam Solo on September 10th, 2012 at 4:01 pm GamersGate has selected 24 indie games to be part of their new IndieFort Bundle starting today. Category: News & Announcements 3 comments

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Digital Pre-Orders And System Reqs By Adam Solo on September 7th, 2012 at 6:05 pm The turn-based strategy and squad-based tactical game XCOM: Enemy Unknown is now available for digital download pre-orders. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 55 comments

OggBoard Part II: A New Way to Play Card and Board Games By Adam Solo on September 7th, 2012 at 12:14 pm One year after the first failed attempt, Sam Lytle is back on Kickstarter for OggBoard. Category: Ideas & Concepts, Kickstart, News & Announcements 5 comments

Endless Space: 3 Free Add-ons Before The Expansion By Adam Solo on September 6th, 2012 at 3:39 pm A couple of weeks ago Amplitude Studios announced an expansion for their space 4X game Endless Space. Now Amplitude clarifies the update plan with 3 free add-ons. Category: News & Announcements 22 comments

Diaspora: Free Battlestar Galactica Space Sim Released By Adam Solo on September 6th, 2012 at 10:34 am A bunch of Battlestar Galactica fans have been developing Diaspora: Shattered Armistice for 4 years now. Today, they released their game. Category: News & Announcements 15 comments

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Beta Starts By Adam Solo on September 6th, 2012 at 8:36 am Blizzard announced that StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm beta tests have begun. Category: News & Announcements 14 comments

Ask the Devs a Question: Europa Universalis IV By Adam Solo on September 5th, 2012 at 7:04 am Want to ask the Europa Universalis IV devs a question? This is your chance to do that. Category: Games Under Development, News & Announcements 17 comments

MORE: Oldschool Turn-based 4X Space Strategy [Kickstarter] By Adam Solo on September 3rd, 2012 at 9:34 am Heads up people, we have a fresh new space 4X game on Kickstarter. It's called MORE and it's a turn-based 4X space strategy game. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 53 comments

Aliens: Colonial Marines – New Competitive Multiplayer Mode By Adam Solo on August 30th, 2012 at 4:37 pm The new Aliens: Colonial Marines trailer shows-off the new competitive multiplayer mode called "Escape". Category: News & Announcements, Videos 4 comments