Archive for the ‘News & Announcements’ Category

Checking up on M.O.R.E. – About 1 Year After Kickstarter By Adam Solo on January 8th, 2014 at 1:49 pm M.O.R.E. kickstarted about one year and two months ago. No major announcements have been made since then but now ideaLcenter releases a trailer and opens pre-orders on their website. Category: Interviews, News & Announcements, Videos 43 comments

Predestination in March – 3D Ship Designer on Kickstarter By Adam Solo on January 6th, 2014 at 11:57 am Space 4X game Predestination is approaching final release. But, there's still room to improve their 3D ship designer feature for which the devs have opened a second Kickstarter. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 30 comments

SpaceSector’s Bargain List: “Sales Leftovers” of Great Games By Adam Solo on January 3rd, 2014 at 11:34 am Do you still have any money left after so many sales in every gaming site that exists? :) Well, if you do and you want to buy something special have a look at the following list. Category: News & Announcements 4 comments

Checking up on Deep Space Settlement – An Indie 4X/RTS By Adam Solo on January 2nd, 2014 at 10:36 am It's been a while since we wrote about Deep Space Settlement, an indie space 4X/RTS game that has been in the works for the past three years. Here's two of their recent videos. Category: News & Announcements, Stellar Indie Venture, Videos 29 comments

Space Sector’s Bargain List: GOG’s 2013 Winter Sale is Up By Adam Solo on December 13th, 2013 at 9:15 am One more year, one more GOG winter/holiday season/end-of-the-year DRM-free sale. Here's our GOG list. What GOG has to offer on the realm of space-based, science-fiction themed and great strategy gaming. Category: News & Announcements 10 comments

Star Lords “Alpha” Now Available on Steam Early Access By Adam Solo on December 11th, 2013 at 9:08 am Star Lords, a turn-based space 4X strategy game currently under development by Arkavi Studios is now available on "Alpha" state on Steam Early Access. Category: News & Announcements 10 comments

Maia Available on Steam Early Access And First Impressions By Keith Turner on December 5th, 2013 at 8:27 am It has been just over a year since Maia reached not only its funding goal, but also a few of its stretch goals. On Tuesday, Maia was made available on Steam as an early access title. Here's my first impressions. Category: Game First Impressions, Kickstart, News & Announcements 15 comments

Endless Legend – First Design Documents By Keith Turner on December 3rd, 2013 at 10:04 am Amplitude Studios has recently released a series of design documents for their upcoming 4X fantasy title, Endless Legend. As of now, four documents have been released covering the following topics. Category: Game Design, News & Announcements 16 comments

Space Sector’s Bargain List: GameStop Black Friday Deals By Adam Solo on November 29th, 2013 at 11:23 am There's gaming deals basically everywhere at the moment. The occasion is the celebration of Autumn, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Holidays start, you name it. Here's what I could dig up at GameStop. Category: News & Announcements 5 comments

Space Sector’s Bargain List: Matrix Games 2013 Holiday Sale By Adam Solo on November 25th, 2013 at 2:10 pm Matrix Games' usual end of the year sale has started and will be up until January 14th, 2014. Here's a chance to get the great real-time space 4X series, Distant Worlds, at reduced price. Category: News & Announcements 30 comments

Star Lords Alpha on Steam in Dec 2013 and First Trailer By Adam Solo on November 22nd, 2013 at 11:21 am There are some new developments on Star Lords. The game (alpha build) will be on Steam Early Access in December 2013. It will cost $19.99 and the publisher confirmed that all past pre-orderers will receive an early access key. And, there's a first teaser trailer. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 16 comments

XCOM: Enemy Within Released By Adam Solo on November 15th, 2013 at 1:01 pm XCOM: Enemy Within, Firaxis' expansion pack to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, is now available. Are you ready to get back to command Earth's best known Extraterrestrial Combat Unit (aka XCOM)? Category: News & Announcements 14 comments

X Rebirth Launched and New Trailer By Adam Solo on November 15th, 2013 at 10:50 am After six or so years of development, Egosoft has finally released X Rebirth. This means that this is a big day for all X fans, and I guess for almost everybody into space sims for that matter. Category: News & Announcements 74 comments

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

Endless Space: The Search for Auriga Free Add-on By Keith Turner on November 14th, 2013 at 9:37 am Developer Amplitude Studios has announced the release of "The Search for Auriga", the 5th free add-on for their 4X space game, Endless Space. Category: News & Announcements 15 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

Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise Expansion Pack By Chris Salt on November 7th, 2013 at 9:40 am Paradox Interactive announced the first expansion pack to Europa Universalis IV, Conquest of Paradise, and I swear, they were reading my mind on some of these features. Category: News & Announcements 4 comments