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Everyone's favorite Stardock Forum wrangler celebrates another trip around the sun today. Happy Birthday :D

Ironclad has defeated Sony and advanced to round two! Thanks for all your support! But now the Escapist's Developer Showdown between Ironclad Games and Konami has begun and we need all the troops rallied! Help Ironclad win this contest of wills by heading over to the Escapist and casting your vote for them in the Western bracket. You will need to create and validate (via email) an account with the Escapist in order to vote and have it count. Visit the URL below to create your account

Impulse is the only supported method for downloading and installing the Sins 1.1 patch.

IMPORTANT: Today's update is ENGLISH ONLY. The French and German versions are still undergoing testing and will be made available at a later date.

We're looking into the issues right now.

[quote]@Stardock: Please build some kind of P2P mechanism into Impulse! Come on, do you really see any benefit in distributing downloads (the 1.1 patch might be around 250MB, but how big will Entrenchment be???) centralized?[/quote] The problem with P2P is that it can not provide a consistent and uniform experience. Some days you may get a great dl rate, other times it may suck. Then there's the problem of ISPs doing traffic shaping on P2P traffic, or blocking it completel

Last night, Blair Fraser of Ironclad Games was on G4's X-Play talking up the upcoming Sins of a Solar Empire microexpansion; Entrenchment. On the October 9th episode, they show off the first of three new Starbases, massive defensive platforms that will decimate all but the largest, most powerful fleets. Watch the video below to get all of the details, and a peek at the game in action. <param name=

The 'Site Issues' forum is a unique forum. We use it to get good feedback from out visitors on the website, what's not working, what the visitors may not understand or what is just plain broken. It allows the developers, testers and support to view reported problems with the website(s) in a forum which is convoluted by many unrelated posts. In the spirit of communicating with users reporting issues as effectively as possible, the moderation policy in place for the 'Site Issues' for

[quote]But the Impulse installer don't work with Linux... do you plan a working version of Impulse for Linux user ? Or maybe a boxed version made from several "micro-expansion"...[/quote] No. We have no plans to do any work on Impulse to make it work with Linux (even in emulation). All of the micro-expansions will be rolled-up into the big full expansion pack we've been talking about since launch. You know, the one with the campaign and all of that good stuff

[quote]Sounds good. So no campaign in this set of mini-releases... But are you guys still going to do a SP campaign at all?? or is the plan to only work on mp related things for some time?[/quote] I can't speak to future content. I just know that Entrenchment specifically will not have a campaign in it. There are still two other micro expansions and the larger expansion later on that's been mentioned in the past.

Stardock announced today the Gamer’s Bill of Rights: a statement of principles that it hopes will encourage the PC game industry to adopt standards that are more supportive of PC gamers. The document contains 10 specific “rights” that video game enthusiasts can expect from Stardock as an independent developer and publisher that it hopes that other publishers will embrace. The Bill of Rights is featured on Stardock’s website (www.stardock.com) and is on prominent displa

[quote]Are you going to add a single player campaign, or at least something like a prologue? Why this will be available only via Impulse? I don't want to install Impulse and there should be another way to get it. Why not Stardock Centrall as well? And as Howdidudothat mentioned isn't that major defences improvement going to turtle the games? Give more information about it pls.[/quote] 1. A single player campaign will not be a part of this micro expansion. 2.&nb

We will be bundling them all up together as a compilation expansion pack later next summer. There will be more details on that uber-pack later :)

Today Stardock & Ironclad Games are proud to announce the first of several micro-expansion packs, for the award-winning Sins of a Solar Empire. The first micro-expansion Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment is currently in development and will be released late 2008 for $9.95 via Stardock’s Impulse digital distribution platform (www.impulsedriven.com). Developed by Ir

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Today's the day Impulse launches to the public with much fanfare and celebration. In anticipation of the release, Brad Wardell walked through what will be available in Impulse on release, and a few sneak peeks at what will be added in the comming weeks and months. It's required reading before you get the final version l

The fine folks over at the gaming site Rock, Paper, Shotgun are giving away five copies of Sins of a Solar Empire, the surprise strategy game hit of 2008. The best part is that entering could not be easier! Here's what you have to do: Here’s the question: What is the best line of dialogue ever to be uttered in a science fiction capacity? This means it must be a line from a science fiction m

It's been over three months since Sins of a Solar Empire hit store shelves, and soon it will be readily available at retail in Europe as well. In the months since release, the reviews have continued to trickle in one at a time here and there. Today, I have a quick round-up of a few of the most recent reviews posted for Sins. Overall, with this latest bunch Sins of a Solar Empire has a solid 88% on GameRankings .<

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The entire article is relevant because it talks about Stardock's philosophy on games, and our digital distribution plans for the future. This stuff very much impacts Sins, even though it isn't labeled purely as Sins information.

Recently Joystiq sat down with Brad Wardell (Stardock CEO) and Chris Taylor (Gas Powered Games Founder) recently to talk a bit about Demigod, a little bit about Sins & Gal Civ 2, and of course about copy protection and where the PC games market is headed. The result? It looks like PC Gaming isn't dead afterall, and that Stardock/Gas Powered Games have some interesting ideas on where the future lies. <A href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/24/joystiq-interview-demi

GamerNode took at look at the PC game release calendar for this year and realized something; 2008 is a great year to be a PC strategy gamer! While the article talks about genre giants like Starcraft 2, Empire: Total War and the highly anticipated Spore, do you know the game they led the feature with? If you said "Sins of a Solar Empire", you'd be right! Highlighting Sins' scale, integration of 4X elements with real-time gameplay and an engine that performs well an

Patience. It's only 2pm Stardock time :)

"Monday" is defined by Stardock time ;)

Space Ponies are both the question AND the answer. Like a mobeus strip with no beginning and no end. They simply ARE.