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CLICK HERE to Visit the official "Sins of a Solar Empire" webpage! Ironclad news Visit www.sinsofasolarempire.com for the latest game news. 21.03.08 Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment announce the release of the first Sins of a Solar Empire demo. Available at Gamespot, the single-player only demo offers a taste of the full game for those who haven't yet taken the plunge into galactic warfare. Features:
If you've been waiting to check out Sins of a Solar Empire, head on over to Gamespot for the download today. 12.03.08 The Games for Windows team rated Sins with an A- plus an Editor's Choice award saying, "While games like Medieval II have tried to marry the tenets of Civilization and StarCraft, Sins is the first game to successfully do so without storing them in separate compartments." 28.02.08 Sins of a Solar Empire has now passed 100,000 copies sold in just under 23 days since its release. Sins of a Solar Empire was the top selling PC game last week, leading both Call of Duty 4 and The Orange Box, according to Gamasutra’s Sailing the World. 22.02.08 23.02.08 1.Sins of a Solar Empire (Stardock) 12.02.08 01. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare—Activision 06.02.08 01. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare—Activision 29.01.08
The game will be available at retail next week. Pre-orders will be activated Monday, February 4 in the evening EST. Regardless of where you purchase the game, you will be able to re-download the entire game via Stardock Central.
28.01.08 IGN PC's editors, Charles Onyett and Steve Butts, have both selected Sins of a Solar Empire as one of their Most Anticipated Games for 2008! You can read the full article at: http://pc.ign.com/articles/847/847786p1.html
GameSpy has posted a new preview for Sins of a Solar Empire, relating a number of gameplay details based on their experiences. Here's a quote, "The level of strategic depth in Sins of a Solar Empire is pretty impressive for a game that's still in beta." See the full article here. 13.09.07 Gamespot has published a new preview of Sins of a Solar Empire, calling it "...an elegant take on space strategy" and a "remarkably original space strategy game." Give it a read here. 31.08.07 "Most are familiar with the 4X formula of games like Civilization, Master of Orion and Galactic Civilizations. Take over a planet or city, build defenses and research technology upgrades, amass forces to invade and conquer enemy territory, and repeat. Sins of a Solar Empire is built on the same kind of concept, but does away with the 'end turn' button," Charles Onyett of IGN describes his Sins game experience Read the whole article here. 23.08.07 "I've had my eye on Sins of a Solar Empire since I first heard the promise of a 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) space-empire sim executed in real time. I've been nagging for an early copy to try out and this month, I got my wish." PC Gamer's Dan Stapleton says "WARNING: TIME EATER Sins definitely captures that 'jut one more turn!' feeling you get from playing Civilizations, but since there are no turns here, it's even harder to find a good place to stop. Expect to play into the wee hours of the night (and enjoy it)" PC Gamer has Published a two page Exclusive preview for Sins in its September 2007 issue. 17.08.07 As we get closer to release, you'll start to see more of Sins of a Solar Empire both in preview coverage and in magazine ads. The very first appears in the November issues of PC Gamer (available September 19th) and Maximum PC (on sale September 25th). Here's a screenshot of the ad that we wanted to share with everyone. 26.07.07 "I knew in my heart of hearts that the job I was most suited for was Supreme Galactic Overlor,." says IGN's by Steve Butts. IGN has published a brand new interview with Ironclad's Blair Fraser on Sins of a Solar Empire. The six page article relates more on the back story of Sins, along with many hints on upcoming features! Give it a read here. 10.07.07 Due to popular demand, we've decided to keep Sins of a Solar Empire Beta 2 open until July 31st. Anyone who pre-orders the game in July will gain immediate access to Beta 2 and all subsequent betas before Sins' final release in February 2008. Pre-order here. 22.06.07 Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment officially released Beta 2 of Sins of a Solar Empire. Beta 2 offers players five more specialized ship types, new artifact exploration features and more. Preorder Sins now to get in on the exclusive Beta. 13.06.07 "Sins of a Solar Empire can be looked at as a new take on the traditional tropes in real-time strategy games. It's been dubbed a 'RT4X game' by Ironclad Games - the X's standing for 'eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate,' What does that mean for you? It means that Sins of a Solar Empire is going for an epic size of game, a 3D real time strategy game in space that will require the player to juggle economics, colonization, diplomacy and even warfare if the player wants even the chance to win."- Sean Michael Whipkey, GamersInfo. Read his interview with Blair Fraser here. 01.06.07 "Many real-time strategy gamers are beginning to see the minimap as an ancient relic, something fondly remembered but shunned in favor of zooming in close to the battlefield, or far, far out to inspect a player's entire army, spread out over a map like tiny pieces on a chessboard. Ironclad's upcoming Sins of a Solar Empire isn't content with showing players single regions of planets, or even single planets--this game is prepared to showcase entire solar systems, viewable simply by scrolling a mouse wheel back and forth." - David Craddock, ShackNews. Read his interview with Ironclad's Blair Fraser and Stardock's Brian Clair here. 01.05.07 "You've never played in a space like this." - Timothy C. Best. Australia's Power Play magazine featured Sins in a double page preview article in their May 2007 issue. See the magazine cover here. 24.04.07 "[A]n intriguing real-time strategy game about interstellar warfare. With its eye-catching starship battles and huge scope, Sins is one of the more innovative strategy games on the horizon." - GameSpot Check the full GameSpot Sins of a Solar Empire Q&A with Ironclad's Blair Fraser. Read the full Interview. 08.04.07 Sins of a Solar Empire places third in GameSpot's list of the major RTS games to keep an eye on this year. "Because multiple battles can flare up all over the galactic map, managing all this mayhem is an interesting challenge, but Ironclad seems to have developed a fairly elegant interface for this. It also helps that the game looks sharp, with battles that feature huge, lumbering capital ships, swift escorts, and plenty of fighter craft zipping by, as well as explosions all around. ... Altogether, Sins of a Solar Empire looks like an intriguing and innovative game that explores a subject rarely covered in RTS games." See the List. 18.04.07 1UP has posted the preview from Games For Windows magazine (May issue) Check it out here: 1UP Preview. 1.04.07 Matt Peckham of Games for Windows Magazine writes, "On a dim starlit map, scores of planets twirl in place like floating cat's-eyes. Between two, a miniature battalion of ships inches along a colored line until it reaches its destination, popping out of hyperspace and ringing the planet in a halo of dots. Roll closer--all the way in--and those dots become attacking ships, skimming a gravity well slung around the planet like a disk. At the disk's edge, a lone defending fleet led by several mammoth capital ships bristles and braces for attack as scouts and colony ships scramble for safety. " GFW Magazine has published its second preview of Sins of a Solar Empire in their May 2007 issue (on sale April/ 2007)! Check out three pages of exclusive game content and screenies. 27.03.07 Sins of a Solar Empire, the innovative “RT4X” strategy game is now available for Beta testing. Check out the forum press release. 21.02.07 1UP post the preview from Games For Windows magazine (March 2007 issue) and also the interview that goes into further detail on the game, Ironclad and Stardock. 06.02.07 Sean Molloy of Games for Windows Magazine says "Hard-science-fiction fanatics, lookie here! GFW Magazine has published its first preview of Sins of a Solar Empire in their March 2007 issue (on sale February 6, 2007)! Check out exclusive new screenshots showing off the epic scale of the galaxy map and more in their two-page article. 22.01.07 Sins of a Solar Empire makes the Top Picks list of two editors at IGN. 01.02.07 When Dan Stapelton of PC Gamer Magazine saw Sins of a Solar Empire, he added "become interstellar warlord" to his list of things to do before he dies. PC Gamer published its first preview of Sins of a Solar Empire in their March 2007 issue! Check out your local news stand to find the double page article with exclusive screenshots showing off ships and planet structures. 12.12.06 Blair Fraser describes to Killer Betties how each of the three races, the TEC, Advent, and Vasari, each have their own play styles with different, ships, weapon types, research topics, special abilities and planet structures. Read the full interview here. 06.12.06 "Everything in the game happens in real-time, but its scale is as massive as you'd expect from a turn-based empire builder. You can appreciate its scale in very practical terms, too -- you can focus, to levels of excruciating detail, on anything from the most miniscule feature on the wing of a fighter, to a broad view of the entire star sector." - Miguel Lopez, GameSpy. Read the full article here. 10.11.06 1UP discovers the seamless transition as they describe controlling an individual fighter squad one moment and directing your defenses around another planet across the galaxy the next. Read the entire article at 1UP. 07.11.06 Ever played a game where you knew...just knew that if you could have talked to the developers even a week or two before they went gold that they could have made the game so much better? With Sins of a Solar Empire that is exactly what you'll be able to do! Users who pre-order the game will be given access to the beta. No non-disclosures. You don't like what we're doing, you're free to howl from the rooftops about it. Our job (at Ironclad and Stardock) is to make sure that the final game is as good as we can make it. By pre-ordering and being in the beta, you can let us know what things you think needs to be tweaked. What game mechanics need refinement or even what additions you think the game makes. That way, the final game is not just more reliable and stable but also has the balancing and tweaking that normally gamers have to wait to some post release "patch" (for those games that even do address balance after release). The first beta is due out after the New Year. We look forward to seeing you! Just click on the store link to pre-order. You can download it or you can have the final version sent to you in its retail box form (and still download it). Pre order Sins of a Solar Empire now. 12.10.06 Game spot hails the return of the space strategy genre in its article: Sins of a Solar Empire First Impression. 11.10.06 IGN posted its first Sins preview on the day of our official publishing announcement. Read it here. 11.10.06 Ironclad Games is happy to announce that Stardock Entertainment, the creators of Galactic Civilizations, will publish Sins of a Solar Empire - expected release, February 2008. Stardock is an exceptionally natural fit for Sins and Ironclad. They have a genuine passion for strategy games and an uncompromising commitment to quality - We are very fortunate to work with the best! Check out Stardock's official press release. 07.10.06 IGN introduces Ironclad and Sins of a Solar Empire to the world. Read the IGN press release. 09.06.06 For many years, the human race has expanded into the galaxy as a vast commercial empire of independents.
Now, that long peace has come to an end as two threats converge together at once. The Sins of each civilization now demanding a reckoning in blood and carnage. Sins that will lead to the annihilation of all but a single solar empire. 10.07.05 We proudly present the official unveiling of Ironclad's flagship title: Sins of a Solar Empire.
"The independent Trader Worlds must unite to defend themselves against
the return of their exiled brethren - 'The Advent' and the arrival of the desperate
remnants of the ancient Vasari Empire." |
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After more than three years of work, Sins of a Solar Empire has gone gold. 
