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Fanmade mod combines Sins of a Solar Empire chocolate with Mass Effect peanut...
Sins of a Solar Empire is an award-winning RTS space battle game, and Mass Effect is an epic action RPG universe with enough lore to fill a library. What happens when you smash the two together in the...
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Start button utility strips even more '8' from Windows 8, has sold 'tens of...
When we first reported on Start8, a mod that brings the tried-and-tested Start button back to Windows 8, it was impossible to know how fiercely the fires of controversy would burn over Microsoft's new...
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Fantasy strategy-RPGs and the limits of 'RPG elements'
This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. In theory,...
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Soren Johnson joins Stardock, 'at least for a while' [Update]
Soren Johnson, who you may remember as Civilization 4's lead designer, has joined Stardock to oversee the design of the developer's entire line of upcoming titles."We've brought on board someone many...
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Civ 4 lead's consulting gig at Stardock followed Zynga layoffs, still...
Soren Johnson, lead designer of Civilization 4, has clarified his role at Stardock following company CEO Brad Wardell's announcement his studio had secured Johnson "at least for a while, to oversee...
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ModernMix is a $5 program that lets you run Metro-style apps in desktop-style...
Sometimes you just wanna close a window. Or resize it, or drag it so that it overlaps with something else. That's how Windows works, and it's more or less how you'd expect to interact with Windows 8...
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Stardock announces dev investment fund, showing two new games this year
Developer Stardock has announced the beginning of an investment fund to support up-and-coming developers. When Stardock sold distribution service Impulse to GameStop, it earned "some unprecedented...
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Sins of a Solar Empire 'Forbidden Worlds' DLC sets out June 5
The first DLC pack for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, a standalone expansion in Stardock's 4X strategy series revolving around space colonization, will launch on June 5. "Forbidden Worlds" adds...
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Leaked Windows 8.1 build points to the Start button's return
When we last got a peek at Windows 8.1 "Blue," most of the updates lurked under the surface: rumors of a Start button revival didn't pan out. Flash forward to Paul Thurrott's screenshots of a newer...
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More Atari IP auction winners announced, Stardock plans Star Control reboot
A few more pieces from Atari's intellectual property catalog, which has been on clearance sale for a little while now, have new owners. Of note is the Total Annihilation and Master of Orion franchises...
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Stardock appoints Derek Paxton VP of games division
Derek Paxton has been promoted to Vice President of Stardock Entertainment, the company has announced today. Paxton, a prominent Civilization 4 modder and Firaxis Games consultant before joining...
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Stardock lawsuits reach settlement, dismissed with prejudice
Two lawsuits concerning Sins of a Solar Empire publisher Stardock have been dismissed, Kotaku reports. One lawsuit, from the company's former marketing manager Alexandra Miseta, accused Stardock CEO...
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Fallen Enchantress dev premieres mobile division with three new strategy IPs
Stardock, developer of the Fallen Enchantress series, has a new mobile studio and three new strategy IPs set to launch by early 2014. Stardock Mobile is headed by Stardock VP Derek Paxton and Mobile...
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Strategic iOS game Dead Man's Draw getting physical card game version
Stardock Entertainment launched a Kickstarter project for its strategy card game Dead Man's Draw today. While the iOS game is already available for $2.59, the developer took to the crowdfunding...
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Galactic Civilizations 3 announced
Years after it was unofficially announced during a facepalm-worthy PR snafu, Galactic Civilizations 3 was just officially announced by Stardock. The long awaited sequel to the 4X strategy series will...
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Steam weekend: Stardock anniversary sale
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Stardock is offering 50 to 75 percent off its library of games and related DLC on Steam. Steam is offering a bundle which features Demigod, Elemental: Fallen...
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Stardock creates staffing company to avoid cyclical layoffs
We've reported on the standard industry cycle time and time again: game ends development, layoffs happen. Stardock (Galactic Civilizations 3), which is also invested in Mohawk Games and Oxide Games,...
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Dead Man's Draw goes free-to-play, physical version available via PDF
Developer Stardock has made its risk-and-reward iOS card game, Dead Man's Draw, free-to-play this week. The involved press release states that those who purchased the game at its previous price of...
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Twenty developers you don't know, but should
Between consoles, PC, mobile and everything in between, there are so many games released today that it's impossible to keep up with everything that's coming out – and it's even harder to keep up with...
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Not So Massively: LoL downed by DDoS attack, Star Citizen hits $36 million
Livestreamer James Varga became the target of a vicious online attack this week that started with the League of Legends servers being shut down by a DDoS attack. A group calling itself "Derp" claimed...
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Next-gen strategy game engine lets you control an army of 5,000 units at one...
Every real-time strategy game has some kind of population cap, limiting the number of units that can be placed simultaneously on a player's terrain. This limit can stem from the designers' need to...
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Dead Man's Draw reaches Steam, adds new cards, tournaments
Dead Man's Draw, the risk-and-reward card game, has shuffled a deck for Steam users. Dead Man's Draw gathers "new card abilities and player traits" in its transition from mobile, but most importantly,...
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Stardock debuts first look at Galactic Civilizations 3, alpha begins March 27
Galactic Civilizations 3 is taking the slow, collaborative road to blastoff with the game's alpha scheduled to begin March 27 on Steam. Here's a first look at the strategy sim's gameplay and... well,...
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Blizzard.net engineer heads to Stardock for 'Project Tachyon'
Stardock, a developer/publisher studio you may not know - but should! - has hired Blizzard veteran engineer Adrian Luff to be its new director of platform architecture. Luff, who helped oversee the...
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Galactic Civilization 3 gets diplomatic in Beta 2
Developer Stardock has announced the launch of Galactic Civilizations 3 beta two, a pre-release test that adds diplomacy options to the upcoming 4X strategy game. The full scope of diplomatic options...
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