Stardock Corporation announced today that the first micro-expansion to Ironclad’s Strategy Game of the Year, Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment, is undergoing further incorporation of beta feedback to maximize quality and will now be available February 25 for download on Stardock’s digital download platform, Impulse (www.impulsedriven.com).
“One of Stardock’s key strategies for success with past games has been the incorporation of player feedback from our open betas,” said Stardock President and CEO Brad Wardell. “We want fans to get the most of this expansion and are making sure we’re delivering the best content possible.”
The additional time will allow for Ironclad’s development team to incorporate feedback to date and allow for another round of beta testing.
Ironclad’s Blair Fraser stated, “It’s of paramount importance to everyone that what we’re releasing is the best and most robust content we can.”
Sins of a Solar Empire was IGN.com’s “PC Game of the Year” and achieved numerous “Strategy Game of the Year” awards and “Best of 2008” mentions from distinguished media outlets including G4TV, Gamespy.com, Wired, Gamasutra.com, Gametrailers.com and Gamespot.com. For complete game information please visit www.sinsofasolarempire.com.
For more information about Stardock please visit www.stardock.com.
About Stardock
Stardock is one of the world’s leading developers and publishers of PC games and desktop software. Its PC games include Sins of a Solar Empire, the highest rated and best selling PC strategy game of 2008 as well as the critically acclaimed Galactic Civilizations series. Its desktop software includes Object Desktop, WindowBlinds, and a host of other programs for customizing the Windows experience. Learn more about Stardock by visiting www.stardock.com.
About Ironclad
Ironclad Games is premier development studio located in Vancouver Canada. Its first title, Sins of a Solar Empire, has widespread critical acclaim including PC Game of the Year and Strategy Game of the Year. For more information visit www.ironcladgames.com.
Great, time to get back into sins!
Cool!
Though its hard to find time to play any games at all when taking university, I'm sure I'll be able to fit in some SINS play time and give feedback from that.
Thanks for the heads up.
ARGH!!!
just kidding...
I was really hoping for Feb 4th..then 11th.
Now the countdown has begun in earnest.
Thanks!
What 2 more weeks! Now where did anatar put those torches and pitchforks....
Well, it's to be expected, there are too many minidumps as is (3-4 per 50 planetish lesurely paced game), and they need to fix the bugs; auxilary government persay.
*sigh* ok, but I want the second expansion on the 26th lol!
Yeah..the 26th month.
Feb 25th...
God damnit.
You're launching on the same day as Darkfall Online.
How cruel... how am I supposed to decide which one to play?!?!?!?!?!??!
Or am I trippin' and this is just another beta phase?
Ya, I was going to be REAL shocked (and/or impressed) if it war released on the 11th; just too many quibbles I could not imagine they could balence or squash in so few days. Good news is, the Beta is good enough and stable enough so Beta testing is more fun than work now. Plus, if they released a "halfbutted" version, it would tarnish that golden pedistal of gamedom they are riding now.
Amazing. First game comng out a development studio and it was critically acclaimed, excellent game too. Hope they do very well.
yay! release date confirmed! (maybe then we will get the AI diplomacy expansion which I now want more than ever thanks to the fact that you can blockade people with starbases)
Good stuff to be sure! The better Sins is, the more the chance of IC getting a license to make a Star Trek, Babylon 5, BattleStar Galactica and Star Wars editions of it.
Yeah no, there's no chance of that happening.
Hey, anyone who can't wait is welcome to jump into the beta now and have your say in the final stage of tweaks!
You never know... Yeah getting the ST & SW franchises might be miniscule at best but it never hurts to try. Shoot they could start with a B5 edition. I remember a long time ago JMS commented about wanting to do a B5 game but nothing simply lived up to his expectations or something to that effect.
I think if Craig or Blair contacted him now with Sins and all its awards he would likely give it serious consideration.
We're gonna get another beta patch to break though, yes?
Don't forget Stargate
Sorry, but no. Hell no.
I have yet to play a good proprietary RTS from any of the major sci-fi series. No, tolerable doesn't count, STA and SWR were tolerable, not good. The release of the first good one is a mythical event that will never happen.
They should remain in the care of modders that don't give a shit what George Fucking Lucas wants Han Solo to do. Skipping the media titans and their beaurocracy is apparently the only way they ever come about.
@Danw - Sorry. When it comes to big fleet stuff SG does not usually come to mind. I'm a big fan of the series however especially with SGA
@Psy - I feel your pain - really. But I think IC would do a good job despite the studio poison since it is fleet and not character based.
I have faith in Lucas being able to fuck the hell out of it regardless...
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