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Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad Games have unleashed a massive changelog for the upcoming Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity version 1.2 and the update is now available. Trinity bundles the original award-winning real-time strategy PC title from Ironclad Games with the two game-changing micro-expansions, Entrenchment and Diplomacy . Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity is available via the digital download platform, Impulse for $39.95. Th

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For the last couple of years Stardock has released its Customer Report to the public, and we have always received a great response to it, so I’m happy to present the Stardock Customer Report 2010. This report is part of the internal business plan of Stardock along with results from our yearly customer survey that

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GamePro magazine did an analysis of Digital Rights Management (DRM) in PC games, and among the people interviewed for this story was Stardock CEO, Brad Wardell. This analysis takes an in-depth looks at piracy from several different views, including those of industry professionals and “pirates” themselves. This is a must read for anyone who enjoys PC gaming. <b

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There have been a ton of reviews coming in today for both Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, and the micro-expansion Diplomacy. Since there quite a few today I wanted to a quick roundup of some of the latest that have hit my inbox. Gaming Evolution http://gamingevolution.info/?id=9428 “…this quirky way of being mind-bogglingly complex while maintaining a

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BigDownload.com has posted their review of the recently released Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, and the 2nd expansion titled Diplomacy. “Diplomacy adds a whole new layer of strategy, and it's a lot to get used to. It significantly turns up the need to multitask, but at the same time, players are presented with new and powerful tools to expand their empire. Picking up the add-on and turning the game into Trinity makes for deeply challenging gam

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IGN.com has published their review of the recently released micro-expansion, Diplomacy, for Sins of a Solar Empire! “Diplomacy comes with an entirely new diplomatic technology tree for each of the three races, and offers up the chance to spread good will, engage in mutually profitable agreements, and even pay for your rivals to undertake specific missions against each other. Being able to move from general bounties to specific targets is a big improv

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Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy is also slated to be officially released tomorrow, and we have another thorough gameplay example. This guided tour also gives a rich overview of the micro-expansion and it’s a definite must-read. Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy – a guided tour

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Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity is nearly upon us, and sometimes the best way to answer any questions about a game is to show it in action, through images and video. With that, Brad Wardell has created an in-depth walkthrough gameplay example of Sins: Trinity. Whether you are new to the game, or a seasoned veteran, take a few minutes and check out the gameplay Gameplay Example: Sins of a Solar

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Big Download had a chat with Stardock’s Brad Wardell about Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy recently. “ The second mini-expansion, Diplomacy, sounds like it will have less of a combat focus this time. Why did you want to improve on the game's non-combat features? Probably the biggest reason has to do with allowing a lot more flexibility for players. Prior to Diplomacy, players had virtually no control over wh

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The fine folks at Neoseeker.com recently had a chat with Stardock’s Brian Clair about the upcoming micro-expansion Diplomacy for Sins of a Solar Empire. “We recently visited the IronClad studio to chat with them about the upcoming Diplomacy micro-expansion for their award-winning Sins of a Solar Empire 4X RTS title. We had a few more questions for the team but they're busy working on the final stages of development as they prep for the Feb 9th l

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Chart-box.com has published a list of their top 10 best Real Time Strategy games of all time. Coming in a number 4 we have Sins of a Solar Empire! " From a rather unknown developer, Sins took bold steps and big risks to blend the typical turned based strategy with the RTS genre. Thankfully for us they managed to nail it, bringing to the table a completely new style of RTS. Featur

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Brad Wardell has put together a quick video demo of Beta 2 of Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy. You can get into the beta by pre-ordering Diplomacy now at https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/ . Check out the video. <param name="movie" value="http://content.screencast.com/users/draginol/folders/Jing/media/5c81a7f7-04fb-4777-b497-6e06856

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GameStooge.com has published the first part of their “50 Great Games of the Decade”, and Sins of a Solar Empire has made the list at #48! “Adding to the deep strategy was the look of the game; it is one of the most visually stunning strategy games of all time. Planets were varied in their composition, and every change the player made had an affect on the planet and ships. Zooming into a planet with many cities, for instance, revealed traffic ai

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Stardock , the world leader in desktop customization, today released the highly anticipated version 1.0 of its popular and free desktop organization application, Fences. Fences is a one-of-a-kind program designed to organize the desktop by allowing users to customize how icons and files reside on the desktop based on user-defined preferences. Fences is the ultimate tool for those users who want to keep their PC desktop clear of clutt

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The first screenshots for Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy are now up on IGN.com! Diplomacy is the second micro-expansion for the award winning PC game, Sins of a Solar Empire. Head over to IGN.com and take a look! <a href="http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/28813/sins-of-a-solar-empire-diplomacy/images/sins-of-a-solar-empire-diplomacy-2009100201

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Stardock is pleased to announce that the Ready to Play beta is about to begin. Ready to Play is a revolutionary new program that enables gamers to create an on-line gaming profile of themselves after which Ready to Play will produce a “recommended friends” list. Then, when the player is ready to play a particular game, they can broadcast to any available friends or recommended friends that they are about to launch a particular game and jo

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PC World’s Game Blog, “ Game On ”, has a featured article about the upcoming micro-expansion Diplomacy, for the award winning PC game Sins of a Solar Empire . “Reportedly the expansion adds a new diplomatic tech tree that'll let you bolster your deal-brokering skills, adds diplomatic

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The v1.17 update for Sins of a Solar Empire , and the v1.03 update for Entrenchment are now available! These updates can be obtained via Stardock’s Impulse . Highlights of these updates include: <li

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IGN.com, which gave Sins of a Solar Empire the PC game of the year award in 2008, has posted their review of Sins first micro-expansion, Entrenchment. “Last year's Sins of a Solar Empire was an undeniably amazing experience; so much so, in fact, that it won our game of the year award. But that doesn't mean that the teams at Ironclad or Stardock are resting on their laurels. They've

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