Ironclad news

17.12.09
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity - Available for Preorder

Complete your Sins of a Solar Empire experience with Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity. This new bundle pack includes the original Sins of a Solar Empire, plus the Entrenchment and Diplomacy expansions.

26.08.09
New Sins of a Solar Empire Expansion Revealed
PC World Takes a Look at Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy

"Reportedly the expansion adds a new diplomatic tech tree that'll let you bolster your deal-brokering skills, adds diplomatic envoy ships (presumably to help craft treaties or facilitate dialogue during hostilities), and allows you to craft trade treaties with other factions."

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24.08.09
Gamespot gets a peak at Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy

"Diplomacy will, like the last microexpansion, Entrenchment, sell for $9.95 and will offer new gameplay content to the space strategy game. Diplomacy will add new interfaction diplomacy features and new diplomatic tech-tree options to research, including the ability to form treaties with other alien races and to trade treaties with other races. While Sins of a Solar Empire currently has an excellent space combat system, it doesn't have a way to manage relations with other space races, so the new microexpansion will draw inspiration from the diplomacy system of Galactic Civilizations II. Diplomacy will go into beta this fall and is planned to launch next year."

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13.07.09
SINS: Game of the Year Box

Ironclad and Stardock launch the new Sins of a Solar Empire Game of the Year Box

Featuring:
The latest balanced and patched version of Sins
Music CD
Huge double sided full color poster showing all research subjects in the game.

Sins of a Solar Empire won multiple awards for 2008 including these ultra prestigious awards which are displayed on the Game of the Year Sins box:
PC Gamer Editor's choice
IGN: Best PC game of 2008
Game Spy: Top 10 PC games of 2008
Gamespot: Reader's Choice & Editor's 2008

16.06.09
Ironclad makes Top 50 Game Developers List

Game Developer magazine and Gamasutra.com initiated a survey with over 600 professionals in the industry to evaluate 150+ developers. Combined with sales data and other metrics, a top 50 developers list was created. Ironclad is honored to be recognized among such fine company.
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30.03.09
GameVortex reviews Entrenchment: 95%

"From the first moment I touched Sins of a Solar Empire, I knew it was a very awesome game that was going to set a high standard in not only its genre, but in gameplay et al. I was happy to see that I was not alone in this thought, as it has raked in accolade after accolade, and not a bit of it goes undeserved. Now we have a much appreciated addition to the original game with the expansion Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment."
- WUMPUSJAGGER AKA Bryon Lloyd
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16.03.09
Vote for Ironclad

Ironclad Games is up against 64 developers in The Escapist's 2009 March Mayhem: Developer's Showdown! Ironclad is currently slated against Sony Online Entertainment.

12.03.09
Blair Fraser Interviews with Gamers with Jobs

Gamers with Jobs has recently posted an interview with Ironclad's Blair Fraser to discuss all things Sins of a Solar Empire. This is a phone interview, so strap on your headphones or power-up your speakers and head over to the URL below:
Click here to listen

11.03.09
Crispy Gamer Interviews Blair Fraser About Entrenchment

Crispy Gamer has published an interview with Ironclad Games' Blair Fraser discussing Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment. In the interview, author Tom Chick questions Blair on why the decision was made to focus on turtling and much more.
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09.03.09
Tom VS Bruce

The very last Tom VS Bruce that went unpublished at the fold of the Games for Windows Magazine.

03.03.09
Entrenchment Earns Editor's Choice from IGN.com

"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 recently released the first micro-expansion for the game, Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment. Featuring some compelling new defense oriented additions, numerous gameplay tweaks, and a ten-dollar price tag, it's a guaranteed way to extend the fun and flexibility of the Sins of a Solar Empire experience. " -Steve Butts
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02.03.09
SarcasticGamer "Does Not Review" Entrenchment

"One of the best PC titles of 2008, and arguably the best space RTS in years, Sins of a Solar Empire, returns with its new expansion: Entrenchment. Featuring Starbases, mines, new cruisers, improved AI and more, Entrenchment aims to take intergalactic warfare to a whole new level." -pacmanpolarbear
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02.03.09
GaneZone rates Entrenchment 8.7

"Sins of a Solar Empire successfully did what other games have tried for years to do. The developers were able to merge the strategy of 4X games with the instant gratification of RTS games. Sins of a Solar Empire became a huge hit with its vast gameplay options and its highly addictive nature. It was only a matter of time before an expansion pack was released, which is entitled Entrenchment ... The biggest and most talked about upgrade is the new star bases. These new bases will make players quake in fear if they run into them by accident." -Michael Knutson
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02.03.09
Gameshark rates Entrenchment A-

"Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment is the latest addition to a large string of updates and enhancements for Ironclad Studios' award winning 4X strategy game ... I can't help but recommend Entrenchment as a must-buy expansion." -Dave VanDyk
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25.02.09
Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment Announced Released

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are pleased to announce the releases of both Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment v1.0 and Sins of a Solar Empire v1.15 today.  Download the update to Sins and Entrenchment via Impulse (http://www.impulsedriven.com).

Special thanks to all of the beta testers for helping us to make Entrenchment a truly unique addition to the game!

Visit the official Sins of a Solar Empire webpage!

18.02.09
Official Entrenchment Trailer

11.02.09
UGO's Top 50 Strategy games of all Time
Sins is numbered in UGO's Top 50 Strategy Games of all Time
Click here to see how Sins ranks.

10.02.09
Sins & Entrenchment featured on The AngryJoe Show

09.02.09
Sins Nominated for Best Debut Game from the Game Developers Choice Awards

01.02.09
Sins Wins Strategy Game of the Year from PC Gamer
PC Gamer has honored Sins of a Solar Empire by naming it the Best Strategy Game of 2008 in it's March 2009 Issue. "Sins of a Solar Empire wowed us early in the year with it's interstellar-scale warfare and epic battles between fleets of frigates, cruisers and massive capital starships. It still wows us today with it's ability to keep us glued to our seats until 4am until we finally conquer the last enemy planet."

26.01.09
Sins Nominated for Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year
from The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
"These peer-based awards recognize the outstanding products, talented individuals and development teams that have contributed to the advancement of the multi-billion dollar worldwide entertainment software industry.
'This was an exciting year for games,' said Joseph Olin, president, AIAS.  'The depth of talent and creativity in this industry continues to amaze me and we are honored to highlight some of the most impressive games of the year at the Interactive Achievement Awards.  The 2009 nominees indeed reflect a stronghold of talent embodying the best and brightest in this field.'"

Visit Interactive.org to read more.

23.01.09
Maximum PC's Gaming Awards 2008
"one of the most fun and engrossing multiplayer RTSes we’ve ever played"

Visit Maximumpc.com to read more.

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