Archive for the ‘News & Announcements’ Category

Interview with Slitherine on Forthcoming Sci-Fi Titles, 4X Games, Publishing and More By Adam Solo on July 29th, 2013 at 10:36 am I talked with Iain McNeil, Slitherine's development director, about the group's forthcoming science fiction strategy titles. We also talked about 4X games, publishing duties and other interesting things. Category: Interviews, News & Announcements 13 comments

Satellite Reign – Spiritual Successor to Syndicate Wars Funded By Andy Kannberg on July 26th, 2013 at 6:39 pm 5 Lives Studios, a small indie developer from Brisbane, Australia propose Satellite Reign, a "real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open world cyberpunk city". Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 5 comments

Void of Darkness: A Little Ship Exploring a Big Universe By Adam Solo on July 26th, 2013 at 9:34 am Justin Sampson, a brave indie dev soul from Barbados island, decided to form a one man studio named Tropical Games to develop a sci-fi action-RPG inspired by Starflight games called Void of Darkness. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 9 comments

Stardock Announces New Star Control Game for the PC By Adam Solo on July 24th, 2013 at 12:41 pm Stardock announced that it has secured the rights to the Star Control franchise with the intent to develop a new Star Control game. Development will start this year. Category: News & Announcements 24 comments

Wargaming Takes Master of Orion, Stardock Gets Star Control By Adam Solo on July 23rd, 2013 at 10:03 am In a recent auction for Atari assets, Wargaming.net took the Master of Orion and Total Annihilation franchises while Stardock got Star Control. Category: News & Announcements 69 comments

Space Sector’s Bargain List: Steam 2013 Summer Sale By Adam Solo on July 15th, 2013 at 2:41 pm Steam has started its 2013 summer sale. As usual, find sales for space-based, science fiction themed and great strategy games that are currently available on Steam. Category: News & Announcements 16 comments

Civilization 5: Brave New World Expansion Now Available By Adam Solo on July 12th, 2013 at 1:06 pm Part of the world was already playing it since last Tuesday but it was only today that Sid Meier's Civilization 5: Brave New World, Civ5's second expansion, was made available to the general public. Category: News & Announcements 32 comments

Horizon Alpha Access Now Available By Adam Solo on July 3rd, 2013 at 1:04 pm Horizon, a turn-based space 4X strategy game by L3O Interactive and Iceberg Interactive, reached Alpha and is now available for pre-purchase on Steam. Category: News & Announcements 17 comments

Colonisation: Moonbase – A City-Building Game on the Moon By Adam Solo on July 2nd, 2013 at 11:38 am Indie dev Scott Jones went to Kickstarter for Colonisation: Moonbase, a construction and management simulation game for Android devices. He didn't make. Now he's back on Kickstarter, this time for the PC. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 13 comments

Void Destroyer Goal Achieved, Final Stretch for new Factions By Adam Solo on July 1st, 2013 at 11:07 am Void Destroyer is a Homeworld inspired real-time strategy space sim hybrid from indie developer Paul Zakrzewski. He achieved his main goal and now heads to stretch goals. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements, Videos 3 comments

Race To Mars: From a Space Company Startup To a Mars Base By Adam Solo on June 27th, 2013 at 2:17 pm Indie dev game studio Intermarum, lead by Szymon Janus, has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund their newest project, a turn-based space management simulation game called Race to Mars. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 9 comments

Endless Space Disharmony Expansion Now Available on Steam By Adam Solo on June 26th, 2013 at 2:07 pm Amplitude Studios and publisher Iceberg Interactive have just released Disharmony, the first expansion pack to Endless Space, their turn-based space 4X strategy game. Category: News & Announcements 26 comments

Space Sector’s Bargain List: GOG’s 2013 Summer Sale is Up By Adam Solo on June 21st, 2013 at 11:01 am And here we go again. GOG's DRM-free summer sales are up and will be so until July 5, 2013. Here's what GOG has to offer on space-based, science-fiction themed and great strategy gaming. Category: News & Announcements 11 comments

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Now Available for iOS By Adam Solo on June 20th, 2013 at 10:43 am 2K and Firaxis Games have just released XCOM: Enemy Unknown for the iOS, namely for Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Category: News & Announcements 12 comments

Indie Gala June – Star Ruler and Sword of the Stars Complete By Adam Solo on June 14th, 2013 at 1:04 pm The Indie Gala is selling an indie bundle which includes Star Ruler and Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection along with 12 other indie games. Category: News & Announcements 23 comments

Planetary Annihilation Alpha Access Now Available on Steam By Adam Solo on June 13th, 2013 at 1:59 pm Uber Entertainment started sending Alpha access to its backers a week ago, and this Alpha build is now also available on Steam as of today, through their "Early Access" program. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 30 comments

Void Destroyer: When Space Sim Meets Real-Time Strategy By Adam Solo on June 4th, 2013 at 10:08 am Void Destroyer has been Paul Zakrzewski's labor of love for the past 4 years. It combines space sim and real-time strategy elements and is now on Kickstarter. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 18 comments