Greetings! We need your help!
This year we have SIX games (not including Star Control) that are being released or going into early access this year.
We want to make sure we highlight the coverage these titles get on the major game sites that would traditionally cover these titles.
Please comment below on any sites you think I’m missing that have substantial traffic that you think are likely to cover PC games as well as ones you would like us to talk to.
Game Sites:
Video previewReview
EA PrevewInterview
GC3 PreviewInterviewReview
NewsInterview
Let's Try Beta 4Let's Play Beta 5Review
Demo: OTCOTC preview
YouTubers / Let’s Play
Also, if you see coverage, please add it to the comments. Thanks again!
What: Sorcerer King: Build a kingdom in a world dominated by the malevolent Sorcerer King. Who: From the team that made Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes. When: Release date: March 2015
What: Galactic Civilizations III: You are the leader of an interstellar civilization that must expand into the galaxy. Who: Er, the team who made Galactic Civilizations II. When: Release date: April 2015
What: Offworld Trading Company: Build the most powerful company on Mars no matter what it takes. Who: From the designer of Civilization IV When: Early Access begins: February 2015
On deck:
[A] From the team that worked on Age of Empires I/II/III and Age of Mythology
[B] From the team that helped make Civilization IV, Civilization V, Railroads and much more.
[C] Stay tuned…
(and wait till you see what we have in store for 2016…)
***Updates***
2/23: Added The Escapist, Geeks With Wives, GWW GalCiv3 preview, Giant Bomb OTC preview video.
2/24: Added: Game Informer Test Chamber video (OTC), USGamer Soren Johnson interview, Day[9] to YouTube and OTC videos, IGN preview (OTC), added Kokatu and OTC article.
2/25: Added Destructiod OTC preview, Games Arena OTC preview
3/5: Added Servo and Ashes of the Singularity to the lists. Niche Gamer, IGN, PC Gamer, and GamesBeat previews. News posts from IGN and PCGamesN.
3/6: Added Game Informer preview.
3/9: Added The Escapist Ashes of the Singularity and Servo news.
3/11: Added PCGamesN news, RPS interview about OTC.
3/19: Added Niche Gamer Servo preview.
4/1: Added Servo preview from PCGamesN.
4/7: Added Ashes of the Singularity preview from PCGamesN, GameSpot OTC Early Access review.
4/10: Added GameSpot article about Ashes of the Singularity and Servo.
4/24: Added GameSpot video of Galactic Civilizations III.
4/27: Added IGN video of Galactic Civilizations III
5/8: Added PCGamesN interview for Galactic Civilizations III.
6/11: Added various Galactic Civilizations III reviews.
8/14: Added various Sorcerer King reviews
9/3: Added GameSpot review of Sorcerer King.
GameWatcher should be on your radar, here's the coverage they've already given for Galactic Civilizations III - http://www.gamewatcher.com/games/galactic-civilizations-iii
Offworld Trading Company - http://www.gamewatcher.com/games/offworld-trading-company
Sorcerer King - http://www.gamewatcher.com/games/sorcerer-king
Lately I've really enjoyed Explorminate, Space Sector, and Space Game Junkie, but I think they're all pretty small. They've already provided some coverage of your upcoming stuff.
Space Sector and Space Game Junkie. Not big sites, but IMO visited by your target audience exclusively.
EDIT> Beat me to it, LOL.
Here are a few youtubers who like strategy games:
https://www.youtube.com/user/quill18 204,013 subscribers https://www.youtube.com/user/arumba07 114,046 subscribershttps://www.youtube.com/user/shenryyr2 66,070 subscribershttps://www.youtube.com/user/Marbozir 44,736 subscribershttps://www.youtube.com/user/SBFMadDjinn 21,326 subscribers https://www.youtube.com/user/GetDaved 15,722 subscribers
I'll be covering Sovereign and Galactic Civilizations 3 next week on: http://www.games-arena.ro/
After that it'll be looking at OTC soon after that.
Now, I wouldn't call the site major, compared to ones that use English. But in the obscure eastern european language niche, we are quite notable-ish.
It's not big, but you should probably include Explorminate on the list.
I love the avatar, unacomn! It brings back memories
http://www.eurogamer.net/ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurogamer)
http://www.usgamer.net/
same network as GamesIndustry.biz ... is that the gi you listed above?
a box of various sites at the bottom of the wiki
arstechnica.com is a ather ecclectic tech site (it/infosec/physics/biomed/pc hw/coaoles/macs/etc/etc.. Oh and games sometime .
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/10/review-xcom-enemy-unknown-is-a-credit-to-the-name/
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/10/civilization-beyond-earth-next-time-reach-for-the-stars/
a couple recent reviews they did that come to mind
not sure what I hit on my phone to mske that first line big.
I always check out Rock, Paper, Shotgun's (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/) coverage first. Well after metacritic.com, of course, but as metacritic just aggregates reviews from other sites, I don't suppose it counts.
Nitrous engine-powered? Please be!
Is it really the same team? I thought you are the only person that worked on both GalCiv II and III. I may be mistaken though.
Nope, while there are new people on GalCiv III, other than Cari (who's on maternity leave) the GalCiv II team is on GalCiv III.
I see, thanks.
Thanks for all the eXplorminate love, guys. We're not "big" yet, but one day we'll be the definitive site for all things 4X. We're working hard on it
PS: I think you mean "February 2016" for OWTC.
Also, if SK is due next month, does that mean we will see Beta 5 this month?
I second Quill18...probably one of the best 4X / Strategy youtubers.
https://www.youtube.com/user/quill18
Scott Manley plays a variety of space-oriented games:
https://m.youtube.com/user/szyzyg - 360k subscribers
Stickied this post and I'll be helping to update the post to keep up with the suggestions.
Kotaku, Gamewatcher (former Strategy Informer).
Wait, why did SpaceGameJunkie and SpaceSector both get added when we (eXplorminate) have more coverage of both your main games and are a 4X-centered site?
We also almost have 700 members in our Steam group. We have quite a few LP's of Sorcerer Koing and GC3 footage too.
It really sucks to be snubbed like that...
Granted, we're in the middle of a website upgrade and a bit of content is missing, but we have covered your games much more so than just about any site, if not every other site.
I always enjoy it when any combination of quill18, arumba, mathasgames, northernlion, enterelysium baertaffy and Shenyrry2 play a multiplayer game together.
Also, some of those old SC2 casters like day[9] or huskystarcraft might be interested in some new life for some multiplayer action as well. In particular I can totally see day[9] doing a 'day[9]'s day off' of subscriber multiplayer battles of OTC.
Scott Manley is also awesome. Not sure if anything in that list is totally up his ally thou. maybe one or two games of OTC.
Relax friend. I am updating this post (helping Brad) while working on many other projects so this is a continual WIP.
I'm not upset, Island Dog, just passionate. This genre is my favorite by far and my group spends a lot of time and effort working on our site. It would just be nice to see that it's recognized, especially when you've included two websites that are obviously in the same "size" category and also because we do spend time covering your games when many others do not.
I apologize if I came off in any other way.
As promised, I have made overview videos of SK and GC3, which people have seen, plural. Some of them weren't even spambots.
http://www.games-arena.ro/2015/02/11/demo-galactic-civilizations-3/
http://www.games-arena.ro/2015/02/10/demo-sorcerer-king/
Really happy to see Shadow World is still in the game.
Updated again.
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